Re: (Feature request) Field / method filtering in the Explorer.
Hi everyone,
I'm embroiled in writing a developers' guide for some APIs we've developed
and as a result of this I'm thinking of submitting a feature request for
NetBeans. Writing this documentation I would have found it incredibly
useful to be able to filter the methods and fields that are visible in the
explorer, so for example I might want to hide all private and package access
fields and methods and show only those that are public and protected -- so
essentially I'm only showing the API. But I might also want to filter out
other types: statics, volatiles etc. I'd really like to see something like
this, because apart from anything else it would really tidy up the explorer
view during development. And how about ordering fields and methods
according to visibility a la JBuilder?
Anybody else got any thoughts on this? Is it worth pursuing? Is it already
in there and I've just missed it (I'm using FFJ 4.0 CE at work, and NB 3.3.2
at home).
Thanks,
Bart
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Read,Bart] at [2007-11-25 16:49:54]
# 1
> Anybody else got any thoughts on this? Is it worth pursuing? Is it
already
> in there and I've just missed it (I'm using FFJ 4.0 CE at work, and NB
3.3.2
> at home).
It's worth Requesting
It's not there ;(
I personally don't like this deep tree of
Class
- Methods
- Fields
- Beans
And surely the filter is a good thing
Post here the issue number, and I'll vote for it
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Sincerely yours,
Maxym
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Maxym at 2007-7-2 23:47:06 >
# 2
Maxym Mykhalchuk wrote:
> I personally don't like this deep tree of
> Class
> - Methods
> - Fields
> - Beans
This at least you can vote for right away:
http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6992
-Jesse
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Jesse Glick <mailto:jesse.glick@sun.com> x22801
NetBeans, Open APIs <http://www.netbeans.org/>
# 3
Bart Read wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm embroiled in writing a developers' guide for some APIs we've developed
> and as a result of this I'm thinking of submitting a feature request for
> NetBeans. Writing this documentation I would have found it incredibly
> useful to be able to filter the methods and fields that are visible in the
I would prefer to have grouping so that you can group by visibility
etc., rather than filtering. Filtering can hide important information
that can lead to confusion.
Sreeni.
# 4
Sure, but the filtering is only an option that you can switch on / off /
configure. I'm gonna get a formal feature request fired off in the next
couple of days and I'll put the URL here so ppl can vote for it. I've
already voted for the one Jesse sent to the list earlier, since there's at
least some crossover with what I'm aiming for. The precise problem at the
moment is that the explorer view IS confusing when you have a multiplicity
of classes and packages, and the little icons aren't really clear enough at
a glance. The filtering and / or grouping should decrease the confusion,
and with filtering enabled the explorer view will be significantly cut down
(hurrah) meaning that you can see the information you want and don't have to
bother with what you're not interested in at the moment.
Best regards,
Bart
--Original Message--
From: Sreenivasa Viswanadha [mailto:sreeni@viswanadha.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 6:53 AM
To: nbusers@netbeans.org
Subject: Re: Re: (Feature request) Field / method filtering in
the Explorer.
Bart Read wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm embroiled in writing a developers' guide for some APIs we've developed
> and as a result of this I'm thinking of submitting a feature request for
> NetBeans. Writing this documentation I would have found it incredibly
> useful to be able to filter the methods and fields that are visible in the
I would prefer to have grouping so that you can group by visibility
etc., rather than filtering. Filtering can hide important information
that can lead to confusion.
Sreeni.
