Description Thomas Schindl 2013-05-18 12:53:29 EDT

For those of us using fxgraph files, it would be nice if the fxml files were "invisible", for a couple of reasons: (1) they are visual clutter in the package explorer, and (2) Eclipse wants to check them into source control. The latter is not horrible, but one normally doesn't keep generated files in source control, and every time there's a new efxclipse release that makes some often inconsequential change to the syntax of the fxml file (e.g., the header comment in 0.8.0), these files show up as changes needing to be committed. Furthermore, they don't necessarily all show as such at once, but only as efxclipse decides it needs to regenerate the fxml file.

I envision something like what you do with build.fxbuild -- the fxgraph editor has a tab that lets you see the generated fxml, but the fxml file does not show up in the source tree. Rather, it gets generated in the bin tree when Eclipse builds the project (including incrementally, so that I can edit the fxgraph file of a running program and have it used the next time the program tries to load the corresponding fxml).

I realize this also has implications for what you do when someone starts with an fxml file and wants to switch to fxgraph.