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Bug 21192

Summary:	Always show source node's properties when it is being edited
Product:	java	Reporter:	Ben Hutchison <benhutchison>
Component:	Unsupported	Assignee:	Chris Ledantec <cledantec>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.x
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows ME/2000
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:	6559
Bug Blocks:

Description Ben Hutchison 2002-03-05 15:44:28 UTC

A Java source node has several very important properties such as Arguments and 
Executor which I edit very often. However, these properties are not normally 
visible when I am editing the file in the editor. I need to click in the 
explorer to select the source node before seeing these properties.

I undertand this is because properties of the method the cursor is on, etc, are 
being displayed. These are not normally so useful. 

I would prefer to see either the source node's properties only, or a union of 
the two property sets.

Comment 1 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 11:17:49 UTC

Set target milestone to TBD

Comment 2 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 11:20:46 UTC

Set target milestone to TBD

Comment 3 Marian Mirilovic 2002-12-06 17:18:03 UTC

reassigne to David K., new owner of editor

Comment 4 David Konecny 2003-04-30 11:16:22 UTC

Moving to Java.

Comment 5 Ben Hutchison 2003-05-01 04:14:33 UTC

Is this Java module's issue? Im not sure. 

The property sheet must be getting some signal from the 
editor to tell it to synch with the method, class decl, 
etc. I want to be able to suppress this signal so I can 
see the top level node properties always.

Comment 6 Svata Dedic 2003-05-01 09:56:17 UTC

David is right (D. - thanks for catching the RFE). Java Editor
"active" node is the one most specific for the place in the Editor -
e.g. method node or field node. While I can not really change that
(other actions depend on precise context to be present), the merge
could be possible done.

However I am not sure whether it applies in the new project system
which uses execution profiles rather than execution on specific
objects in the Explorer tree.

Comment 7 Chris Ledantec 2003-07-07 10:11:08 UTC

depends on keeping editor/explorer focus in synch.

Comment 8 Svata Dedic 2003-07-07 11:17:08 UTC

It does not depend on the Explorer / editor sync at all. Please read
the original request and observe the current global property sheet
behaviour while editing/navigating through a java source.

Comment 9 Martin Matula 2004-11-12 09:26:25 UTC

With the new buildsystem, there are no longer any interesting
properties on the file that would make sense to display when the
source is being edited.

Comment 10 Quality Engineering 2007-09-20 10:58:22 UTC

Reorganization of java component