Description Stephen Colebourne 2005-07-20 06:15:12 EDT

Currently, the detail formatter preferences page allows detail formatters to be
used in three ways
1) Label: DetailFormatter, or Eclipse default if no DetailFormatter
   DetailPane: DetailFormatter, or toString if no DetailFormatter

2) Label: DetailFormatter, or toString if no DetailFormatter
   DetailPane: DetailFormatter, or toString if no DetailFormatter

3) Label: Eclipse default
   DetailPane: DetailFormatter, or toString if no DetailFormatter

(As you can see, it is quite difficult to express what these radio buttons do
effectively, and in fact I had to try the middle option to see what it actually
did. So there is, at least, a useability issue here...)


However, despite these options, there is no way to do what I want:
4) Label: DetailFormatter, or EclipseDefault if no DetailFormatter
   DetailPane: toString


Instead of just adding a fourth option to the dialog, I propose that the single
set of radio buttons at the bottom is broken up into two sets:
a) What to display against the label
- EclipseDefault
- toString
- DetailFormatter, or toString if no DetailFormatter
- DetailFormatter, or EclipseDefault if no DetailFormatter

b) What to display in the detail pane
- toString
- DetailFormatter, or toString if no DetailFormatter

Note, that this may affect interaction with Structure formatters and create even
more combinations, I haven't thought about that.