Bug 47826

Summary:	[Wizards] WizardNewFileCreationPage should support a default file extension
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Simon Arsenault <simon_arsenault>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	CC:	jakub.jurkiewicz
Version:	2.1.1	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 2000
Whiteboard:

Description Simon Arsenault

2003-12-01 12:42:34 EST

In the WizardNewFileCreationPage, there should be a method to set what the 
default file extension should be. So when the page is asked to create the new 
file, it can check the entered file name if it ends with the default file 
extension provided, and if not, append it to the end of the file name.

Comment 1 Tod Creasey

2004-03-29 10:22:36 EST

No plans for 3.0

Comment 2 Tod Creasey

2004-06-28 11:27:40 EDT

Reopening now that 3.0 has shipped

Comment 3 Susan McCourt

2006-07-06 17:04:29 EDT

this one belongs to Karice

Comment 4 Jakub Jurkiewicz

2007-01-29 06:51:12 EST

Is anyone taking care about this bug? I could try to create a patch for it.

Comment 5 Tod Creasey

2007-01-29 08:14:05 EST

the helpwanted keyword is for bugs hat we are interested in patches for so please feel free.

Comment 6 Jakub Jurkiewicz

2007-01-29 09:04:01 EST

I have started creating a patch, but I've got one doubt. What should be done if a user enters a file name with his own extension, e.g. "name.txt" and the default extension is set to "abc"? Should the extension given by the user be changed or it should be kept?

Comment 7 Tod Creasey

2007-01-29 09:25:12 EST

You would want to use the extension provided by the developer - otherwise this would break existing behaviour

Comment 8 Jakub Jurkiewicz

2007-01-29 09:36:03 EST

Ok, so the default extension provided by the developer should be appended to the full name given by the user (with the custom extension)?

Comment 9 Karice McIntyre

2007-01-29 09:53:40 EST

Jakub, take a look at the patch for bug 134740 - I think it provides the function requested by this bug.

Comment 10 Boris Bokowski

2009-11-26 16:19:50 EST

Prakash is now responsible for watching bugs in the [Wizards] component area.

Comment 11 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:09:18 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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