| Marker Overlay Issues - Should I Use Project Explorer or Navigator View?? [message #308411] |
Thu, 21 September 2006 18:02  |
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Originally posted by: mark_melvin.amis.com
I have noticed that my application based on the platform runtime - which
was geared to work with the old Navigator View - required a special
decorator to manually refresh and overlay problem markers on my projects
and files as I created them. I am refactoring code and it looks like I
can remove this because I can't find any other Eclipse plugins that
manually provide decorators for problem markers. However - simply
removing my code didn't work. I don't see the markers change state in the
Navigator view unless I close and reopen the project, or restart the
workbench. This got me massively sidetracked into how, exactly do the
problem markers magically show up in the Package Explorer? I can't see
any decorator code. I then noticed that problem markers in fact don't
show up automatically for *anything* (like Java problems, Ant problems) in
the Navigator View. So how the heck do they show up in the Package
Explorer?
Then I noticed a new view in the list called the "Project Explorer". I
opened it up and lo and behold it shows problem markers automatically as
well. I assume this view is one of the new "common navigator" views? I
also assume the "Navigator" view is not based on the "common navigator"
view? Or am I confused??
I guess my question is - how can I get the same functionality of the base
Navigator View (with Working Sets, history arrows, Go Into, etc.), and the
automatic marker overlays that the mysterious "Project Explorer" gives me
so I can remove my old crappy
manually-refreshing-problem-marker-decorators code?
Secondly, if the Project Explorer is the way forward for Eclipse extenders
then:
- why does it have less functionality than the Navigator view (no working
sets, etc.)?
- why isn't it the default?
- why doesn't the JDT use it?
Mark.
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| Re: Marker Overlay Issues - Should I Use Project Explorer or Navigator View?? [message #308419 is a reply to message #308416] |
Thu, 21 September 2006 21:20  |
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Originally posted by: mark_melvin.amis.com
Thanks for the confirmation, Paul. I don't have time to port to the
common navigator right now anyway so I guess that's good. ;o) I'll leave
my decorator alone for now.
Thanks again,
Mark.
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:48:09 -0400, PaulNews <paulnews@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Melvin wrote:
>> Then I noticed a new view in the list called the "Project Explorer".
>> I opened it up and lo and behold it shows problem markers automatically
>> as well. I assume this view is one of the new "common navigator"
>> views? I also assume the "Navigator" view is not based on the "common
>> navigator" view? Or am I confused??
>
> The Project Explorer is the replacement for the Resource Navigator. The
> PE is based on the new Common Navigator code. The Resource Navigator is
> old code that (AFAIK) no one is working on at the moment.
>
>> Secondly, if the Project Explorer is the way forward for Eclipse
>> extenders then:
>> - why does it have less functionality than the Navigator view (no
>> working sets, etc.)?
>> - why isn't it the default?
>> - why doesn't the JDT use it?
>
> Time ... the common navigator was introduced in 3.2. There wasn't
> enough time to provide a new navigator API and move everything over to
> it.
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> More of this functionality will appear in the Project Explorer in 3.3.
> And I heard talk of making the Project Explorer the default over the
> Resource Navigator as well.
>
> I don't know what JDT's plans are for the Package Explorer.
>
> Later,
> PW
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