Archive for the 'Common Navigator' Category
Compatibility is Restored
As of N20090304-2000 (and 3.5M6) the CNF incompatibilities with prior released have been fixed, and what’s even better is the mechanism is cleaner and simpler to explain.
bug 255793
bug 252293
I won’t elaborate right now for personal reasons (broken elbow), but the docs will be updated (thanks to help from my lovely wife) and I will explain [...]
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All done with Common Navigator DnD issues (for now)
I have no outstanding bugs or enhancement requests related to DnD.
Thanks to Dani Megert for helping me with many of the issues.
Now it’s onto issues of priority and categorization for actions and sorting. And a few other things.
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Which bugs for CNF DnD?
Someone asked which bugs/enhancements I plan to address.
I plan to address all of them (that are known to me — if I missed any, let me know). The ones that are currently marked for M6 have a fix waiting review, I will get to the rest in the next day or two.
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maj
P2
francisu@ieee.org
rob.stryker@jboss.com
ASSI
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3.5 M6
dnd
[CommonNavigator] Drag from [...]
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Drag and Drop
In the next few days I intend to address as many of the CNF drag and drop defects as possible. I have marked them all with “dnd” in the status whiteboard (search for Platform/UI/CommonNavigator). The way I work is to work on one area of code at a time to really learn it and to [...]
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Something to Watch Out for - Objects that don’t Match Content Extensions
With the M5 changes to the Common Navigator (are you sick about hearing about this yet?), the caching of the association between objects added by the content provider and the the navigator content extension has been temporarily removed. The reason for this is to make sure the behaviour of finding the correct navigator content extension [...]
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Test your Common Navigator Stuff on this Week’s I Builds!
There are changes to the way the Common Navigator selects content extensions for label providers that might be incompatible with existing implementations. These are in bug 252293 and are available in any I build after I20090125-2000. So far so good. I have tested these with JDT, CDT, and the Eclipse SDK (without JDT) and everything [...]
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Community comments needed for Common Navigator label providers
Bug 252293 points out an issue that Common Navigator navigatorContent (extensions) (NCEs) are not properly invoked for the purpose of providing a label when the NCE overrides another.
In the course of investigating this problem, I found a few issues in this area where the label provider handling is not really right. Unfortunately, to make it [...]
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Common Navigator Requests for 3.4.1
I have spent time over the last days working on a number of Common Navigator issues. I have also marked all of the bugs that I plan to address for the 3.4.1 cycle. If there is anything else you want in 3.4.1, please make your case with a comment in the bug report. I now [...]
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More Documentation available for Common Navigator
As of 3.4RC4 the Platform Plugin Developer Guide how has an overview section on the Common Navigator (I was wondering who wrote these things, turns out we developers do). You can find it in the Programmer’s Guide section under
Common Navigator Framework.
When I first started using the CN, I found the tutorials on Michael’s [...]
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Updated CNF Page on Wiki to Provide Tutorial for RCP/Resources/CNF
You can find this at the Common Navigator Framework Wiki page. I welcome any comments or corrections.
Hopefully, if I get enough time this week, I am planning on writing some text for a section in the Platform Plugin Developer’s Guide to include general instruction on the CNF based on Michael’s (and my) work. [...]
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