[UIMA-3946] Adding a method to the CAS Editor that selects Annotations without scrolling to them

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: CAS Editor
• Labels: features
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Markus Krug
• Created: 16/Jul/14 06:18
• Updated: 16/Jul/14 06:18

Description

While creating a view for the UIMA Cas Editor i came to the problem where i had to select a bunch of Annotations one after another. The main issue is that the person working with this view should be allowed to read the whole text. Now since the CAS Editor is always jumping directly to the selected Annotation its alot harder to keep track of where the last bit of text was you were reading.

So adding a method that just selects the next Annotation without direclty jumping to it would be a nice feature.

At the moment there is this method
"protected void selectAndReveal(int selectionStart, int selectionLength, int revealStart, int revealLength)" which would provide me with all i need ( i guess), however it is located in org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.AbstractTextEditor
and is protected.

Thanks in advance Markus Krug