Bug 2208 - SEVERE: UI is difficult when trying to open an out-of-synch file (1GEAL61)
Summary: SEVERE: UI is difficult when trying to open an out-of-synch file (1GEAL61)
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Resources (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: All Windows 98
: P1 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: DJ Houghton CLA
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Keywords: usability
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Reported: 2001-10-10 22:29 EDT by Nick Edgar CLA
Modified: 2002-01-22 17:38 EST (History)
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Description Nick Edgar CLA 2001-10-10 22:29:27 EDT 
- new file B.txt
- change B.txt in the filesystem
- open B.txt in Eclipse
- it gives an error dialog: "Problems Opening Editor" / "File has changed since 
last synchronization".

A: This case will happen often
B: What is synchronization?  We don't use that term in the UI anymore.
C: It doesn't show how to rectify the situation.  How is a novice user supposed 
to know to do a refresh local?
D: It's not necessary.  There's only one content which can be seen in the 
editor.  It could just do a refresh for you and open it.

NOTES:

NE (5/25/01 1:25:37 PM) 
	Are there any disadvantages to just doing a refresh?  Need to check 
with a Core person.

DS (5/29/01 8:43:27 PM)
	I will write an operation to do a refresh ( with user confirmation ) if 
the resource has
	changed.  This operation can be reused throughout desktop in open 
editor, copy, move,
	delete, etc.

	Out of sync states to deal with = modify, delete

DS (5/29/01 9:24:37 PM)
	According to Rodrigo there is no way to see if a file is out of sync.  
Perhaps it would
	involve doing everything a localRefresh does, but without doing the 
localRefresh.

KH (5/30/2001 2:50:50 PM)
	Local refresh will cause builders to run. We should NOT do this for 
free.
Comment 1 DJ Houghton CLA 2001-10-29 17:59:24 EST 
PRODUCT VERSION:
110 JDK
Comment 2 Kevin Haaland CLA 2002-01-21 22:21:54 EST 
Moving to Core for comment
Comment 3 John Arthorne CLA 2002-01-22 17:38:42 EST 
Stale PR.  UI now does a local refresh.  This seems fine as long as a progress 
dialog is shown.  See

http://dev.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=6091