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Bug 12418

Summary: Need surer way to tell what all modified objects in IDE are
Product: platform Reporter: Jesse Glick <jglick>
Component: Window SystemAssignee: jrojcek <jrojcek>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: blocker Keywords: UI
Priority: P4    
Version: 3.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on: 77210    
Bug Blocks:    
Attachments: NB module JAR with sources

Description Jesse Glick 2001-05-25 13:32:04 UTC
There is no sure-fire way in the IDE to get a list of all the modified objects
you have - since various object types permit structural modifications without an
open Editor window (e.g. Java sources and many others), they can be modified but
you can only see this by virtue of selecting the node and seeing the Save button
turn on!

You can choose File | Exit and look at the list of modified files, then Cancel;
but this shows only icon and simple name, not path, so if you have many files
with the same name this is useless. (E.g. apisupport's layers are typically
called "mf-layer", so seeing such an icon in the dialog when you have been
working on many layers is not helpful.)

Suggest:

1. Exit dialog should show more information about where each modified file lives
- filesystem, path.

2. Modification status of objects ought to be displayed as an icon badge, rather
than a " *" appended to the name of the object in the Editor component, which
would still let you see modification status in the Editor (the icon would be
showing) but also let you see it at a glance in the Explorer, whether or not the
Editor is open.
Comment 1 Jan Chalupa 2001-11-27 17:08:21 UTC
Target milestone -> 3.3.1.
Comment 2 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 09:01:01 UTC
Target milestone was changed from '3.4' to TBD.
Comment 3 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 09:28:42 UTC
Target milestone was changed from '3.4' to TBD.
Comment 4 Jesse Glick 2002-12-06 19:21:07 UTC
Suggest also:

New node under Runtime tab that displays all currently modified objects.

Attaching prototype, it is quite easy and seems to work fine.
Comment 5 Jesse Glick 2002-12-06 19:21:51 UTC
Created attachment 8200 [details]
NB module JAR with sources
Comment 6 Marian Mirilovic 2003-01-16 16:28:11 UTC
Again, patch(modules) is attached here, but nobody reviewed it. Jano?
Comment 7 Jesse Glick 2011-07-28 20:08:08 UTC
Probably obsolete.