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Avoid outline refresh while editing file [message #1061830]

Tue, 04 June 2013 09:46

Fabian G.

Messages: 60
Registered: May 2010
Location: Christchurch (NZ)

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Hi All,

I was wondering if there is a possibility to avoid refreshing the outline while editing a dsl file (only when saving a file would even be acceptable in my case).

I customised a bit the outline and at some point, while editing the file, some references can be null (so NullPointer are raised). Instead of putting try/catch or null-verifications almost everywhere, I wonder if there is a way to limit the refresh-rate.

thanks in advance,
Fabian

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Re: Avoid outline refresh while editing file [message #1061849 is a reply to message #1061830]

Tue, 04 June 2013 11:19

Jan Koehnlein

Messages: 760
Registered: July 2009
Location: Hamburg

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I'd rather go for the null-verification approach. It's the UI engineer's
life to deal with broken models. And it is also what your users expect.

The update is based on the IXtextModelListener and you'd have to build
your own update mechanism instead. But if you want to anyway, finding
the callers of OutlinePage.refreshViewer(...) could be a good start.

Am 04.06.13 11:46, schrieb Fabian G.:
> Hi All,
>
> I was wondering if there is a possibility to avoid refreshing the
> outline while editing a dsl file (only when saving a file would even be
> acceptable in my case).
>
> I customised a bit the outline and at some point, while editing the
> file, some references can be null (so NullPointer are raised). Instead
> of putting try/catch or null-verifications almost everywhere, I wonder
> if there is a way to limit the refresh-rate.
>
> thanks in advance, Fabian

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Re: Avoid outline refresh while editing file [message #1061856 is a reply to message #1061849]

Tue, 04 June 2013 11:45

Fabian G.

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Registered: May 2010
Location: Christchurch (NZ)

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Ok, thanks for you reply. I go for the null-verification then.
cheers,
Fabian

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Re: Avoid outline refresh while editing file [message #1410649 is a reply to message #1061849]

Thu, 21 August 2014 09:43

Lidia Gutu

Messages: 45
Registered: July 2013

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Hello,
Could you please provide some hint how I should implement 'null-verification' approach. I am also trying to avoid refreshing the outline view, while I am typing. Thank you in advance

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