Bug 10266 - [PropertiesView] PropertySheet Categories aren't expanded by default
Summary: [PropertiesView] PropertySheet Categories aren't expanded by default
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P3 major (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2002-02-26 11:32 EST by Randy Hudson CLA
Modified: 2009-08-30 02:08 EDT (History)
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Description Randy Hudson CLA 2002-02-26 11:32:16 EST 
This bug is very old.  See 1GE36VQ.  Categories should be expanded by default, 
and their expansion state should be remembered during refreshes.  Not having 
this behavior makes categories unusable.

I have seen that Rational has already implemented this behavior themselves.  We 
don't want everyone to copy the source code for the property sheet and fix its 
bugs.

See "Showing categories in the property view" on the newsgroup as well
Comment 1 Randy Giffen CLA 2002-02-28 12:15:03 EST 
By "expanded by default" do you mean independent of the show/hide categories 
toggle?

In the 2.0 stream when categories are turned on they are expanded and their 
expansion state is remembered as the input changes.

Is it the case that you are contributing a page and want to be able to 
configure it to show categories as the initial state?
Comment 2 Randy Hudson CLA 2002-02-28 13:13:58 EST 
I had done a bugzilla search for 1GE36VQ and didn't find anything.  It had been 
left open in RPRS, so I assumed it wasn't fixed.  thanks for fixing this.

I have other PropertySheet related bugs in bugzilla, one of them causes Eclipse 
to core-dump.
Comment 3 Randy Giffen CLA 2002-02-28 15:07:20 EST 
Actually I thought about this some more and I think we should change the 
show/hide categories toggle to "show categories (if any)" and "hide 
categories". We can have this on by default and if there are no categories 
specified we just don't show any.
Comment 4 Randy Hudson CLA 2002-05-26 22:55:36 EDT 
BTW, changing the "show categories" filter only affects the current page, and 
not the mode for that View.  So if I am working on 2 files of the same type, I 
have to turn the feature on twice.  If I close and re-open those documents, I'm 
not sure what default value I get then.

This is similar to the TaskView's behavior across multiple windows, but this 
time it's pages instead of workbench windows.

I like Giffen's idea of changing the default, but not displaying "misc" all the 
time until there are 2+ categories.
Comment 5 Randy Giffen CLA 2002-05-28 14:50:38 EDT 
Changed PropertySheetPage to show categories by default. If there are no 
categories none are shown. Suggest defer considering the change to move the 
setting from the page level to the view level until after 2.0
Comment 6 Randy Giffen CLA 2002-05-28 15:20:30 EDT 
Defer
Comment 7 Randy Giffen CLA 2002-08-09 12:59:46 EDT 
Reopen to investigate
Comment 8 Randy Giffen CLA 2002-08-09 13:00:37 EDT 
Reopen to investigate
Comment 9 Tod Creasey CLA 2006-06-22 08:11:34 EDT 
This bug is very old. Is it still an issue?
Comment 10 Denis Roy CLA 2009-08-30 02:08:59 EDT 
As of now 'LATER' and 'REMIND' resolutions are no longer supported.
Please reopen this bug if it is still valid for you.