Bug 19398 - [ExternalTools] External Tools dialog should hint about extension
Summary: [ExternalTools] External Tools dialog should hint about extension
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Ant (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Simon Arsenault CLA
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Keywords: ui
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Reported: 2002-06-05 14:55 EDT by Tod Creasey CLA
Modified: 2002-10-17 11:27 EDT (History)
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Description Tod Creasey CLA 2002-06-05 14:55:29 EDT 
Build F2

When you browse for an external tool it is clearly looking for a file (it will
not allow a directory to be selected) but no hint is given as to the expected
extension of the file. In othre prompters we give the expected extension (i.e.
.zip for a zip export).

STEPS
1) Select Run - External Tools - Configure
2) Dialog comes up - select New
3) Select Browse file system - no hint given
Comment 1 Nick Edgar CLA 2002-06-05 15:31:39 EDT 
On Windows we could specify *.exe, *.com, *.bat, *.xml.
However, on Linux, commands and shell scripts need no extension.
Comment 2 Simon Arsenault CLA 2002-06-06 13:15:40 EDT 
Defer until after release 2.0 to be considered as part of the UI enhancement 
changes.
Comment 3 Simon Arsenault CLA 2002-09-06 15:07:45 EDT 
It's impossible to know what the extension hints could be. The page description 
has been improved to indicate to the user what type of files they can use.

Note: new external tool work is not yet released to the head stream and won't 
for a while yet.