Bug 148687

Summary:

Extension Point enhancement

Product:

[Eclipse Project] PDE

Reporter:

Benjamin Muskalla <b.muskalla>

Component:

Assignee:

Benjamin Muskalla <b.muskalla>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

CC:

pombredanne, wassim.melhem

Version:

3.2

Keywords:

contributed

Target Milestone:

3.3 M1

Hardware:

OS:

Linux-GTK

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Extends the Filter to find specific extensions faster	none

Description Benjamin Muskalla

2006-06-26 13:08:44 EDT

When using the "New Extension" wizard and want to add a new perspective, it would be great to improve the filter.

The name "filter" means in my eyes that the e.g. the "org.eclipse.ui.perspectives" extension point can be found with the filter "per". This would be a great thing to select the extension points faster. It should filter the extension points like the  "Superclass Selection".

If you are interested, i would like to try to write a patch for this enhancement.

Comment 1 Wassim Melhem

2006-07-13 00:23:43 EDT

This is a good idea.  We already do something similar when doing an extension point search on the Search > Search... > Plug-ins search page.

Chris,
if the filter string does not contain a dot or ? or *, we should match for *.filter*, eg. if the user enters 'per', we should match on '*.per*'

If the filter text entered by the user contains *, ? or a dot, then it's business as usual.

Comment 2 Benjamin Muskalla

2006-07-16 21:41:50 EDT

Created attachment 46356 [details]
Extends the Filter to find specific extensions faster

Please be patiend, it's my first patch :-)

Hope this will fulfill the enhancement

Comment 3 Wassim Melhem

2006-07-16 23:06:51 EDT

Patch released.  Thanks Ben.

You forgot to run Source > Externalize Strings... on the code though ;)