Re: [ve-dev] Create Visual Class Wizard - new design for review

[Joe Winchester <WINCHEST@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Folks,

One thing that might be nice is to see a short description of what each tree entry does.  For some entries (such as SWT -> Application) these are subclasses of java.lang.Object which doesn't let the user know what really happens (which is that we create a class with a main doing a display loop and a Shell within it).  Maybe when each entry is selected the status message is updated to show a longer descrpiption of what kind of class is going to be generated.

Another point (maybe this was discussed yesterday and I missed - in which case apologies) is why is Other beneath each category.  e.g. we have SWT > Other and Swing > Other.  These all do the same (which is to put java.lang.Object) in the list, so instead of taking up 3 items of vertical height why not somehow make it one item (perhaps Other is a top level item), or maybe other is a checkbox above the tree like (Use template) which when selected enables the tree and when not selected disables the tree and is just java.lang.Object superclass.  Perhaps the label "Style" to the left of the tree would be a checkbox "Use Style".

Best regards,

Joe