Bug 101516

Summary:

Sort extensions in PDE plug-in XML editor

Product:

[Eclipse Project] PDE

Reporter:

Darin Wright <darin.eclipse>

Component:

Assignee:

Benjamin Muskalla <b.muskalla>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

CC:

b.muskalla, gheorghe, pombredanne

Version:

3.0

Keywords:

contributed

Target Milestone:

3.3 M1

Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Patch to sort the Extensions Tree	none
sort_extensions_button.diff	none

Description Darin Wright

2005-06-23 14:19:14 EDT

3.1

It would be helpful to be able to sort the extensions listed in the extensions 
tab of the plug-in XML editor alphabetically, or by declared order.

Comment 1 Wassim Melhem

2005-06-23 14:21:30 EDT

good suggestion.

In the meantime, you can sort them in the outline view.  Maybe that could help.

Comment 2 Darin Wright

2005-06-23 14:25:59 EDT

Ah - I didn't have the outline view open. My laptop doesn't have enough screen 
space.

Comment 3 Wassim Melhem

2005-06-23 14:27:45 EDT

oh no.  still using the laptop I saw a year and a half ago?  if so, that's the 
real tragedy :-)

Comment 4 Benjamin Muskalla

2006-07-17 20:27:24 EDT

Created attachment 46413 [details]
Patch to sort the Extensions Tree

This should add the needed functionality.

Comment 5 Wassim Melhem

2006-07-20 23:14:23 EDT

The patch attached in comment 4 is not sufficient.  We do not want to sort the extensions all the time.  Order is important.  You would want a way to toggle sorting on/off.

Comment 6 Benjamin Muskalla

2006-07-21 00:30:05 EDT

I thought of a additional button under the "down" button. I just implemented something like this, works great. But i think a nice way to toggle sorting would be a toggle button. But for this, we need to patch the SharedPartWithButtons class. Any suggestions?

Comment 7 Wassim Melhem

2006-07-21 00:59:49 EDT

It would be nice/simple to control the sorting action via an icon that gets added to the row buttons already on the top right of the Extensions page.  

The icon would be the a->z icon used to sort in the Outline view of the plug-in editor and java editor.

Comment 8 Benjamin Muskalla

2006-07-21 12:21:20 EDT

Created attachment 46645 [details]
sort_extensions_button.diff

Wassim, did you mean something like this?

Comment 9 Wassim Melhem

2006-07-21 22:12:51 EDT

Patch plays well.  Thanks Benjamin.