MySQL Bugs: #52389: Allow moving of rows in 'Edit Columns' through use of buttons and shortcuts

Bug #52389	Allow moving of rows in 'Edit Columns' through use of buttons and shortcuts
Submitted:	26 Mar 2010 12:34	Modified:	19 Sep 2014 19:12
Reporter:	Pascal Bakhuis	Email Updates:
Status:	Won't fix	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	5.2.16	OS:	Any
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
In the EER Diagram when editting a table to move fields up and down I've noticed that unlike most applications MySQL Workbench does not seem to offer shortcuts (aka hotkeys). They would be a welcome addition.

Another welcome addition would be a couple of buttons to move a row up/down and perhaps even 'to top' and 'to bottom'.

The 2 available methods at the moment seem to be a rightclick and picking move up from the context menu, or dragging the column by using the horizontal headers.

The first takes one click too many in my opinion and the second is not something everyone might be aware of that it is even possible. (I didn't even think of trying it till I was writing this suggestion).

Anyways this is all quite hard to explain using just text so I'll post a reply with a screenshot and some code that I used for the screenshot.

How to repeat:
edit a table

See the red arrows/text on the screenshot itself

Attachment: buttons-suggestion.png (image/png, text), 154.71 KiB.

Code I used to fabricate the screenshot with the buttons. It's written in Java with Qt Jambi.

Attachment: MySQLWorkbenchButtons.java (application/octet-stream, text), 3.15 KiB.

Closing old feature request. You can now reorder columns by using drag and drop, so this would become unnecessary.

Not sure why this was ever closed. Using version 6.3.9 on OS X and click and drag definitely does NOT work in 2017, much less 2010.

Still not working on macOS in 2018 :(