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Bug 36320

Summary:	Not all targets appear in context menu "Run target"
Product:	projects	Reporter:	vladmihaisima <vladmihaisima>
Component:	Ant	Assignee:	Jesse Glick <jglick>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED
Severity:	blocker	Keywords:	UI
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	44360
Attachments:	The file for which on the last build of netbeans, I get only 2 targets.

Description vladmihaisima 2003-09-28 10:07:36 UTC

On the contextual menu of a build.xml, appear only 
2 of 5 targets, after the introduction of the 5th 
target (which depends on other two).

Comment 1 vladmihaisima 2003-09-28 10:08:57 UTC

Created attachment 11730 [details]
The file for which on the last build of netbeans, I get only 2 targets.

Comment 2 Marek Grummich 2003-09-29 09:22:26 UTC

Only targets that have a description and default target are appeared
in the 'Run Target' submenu. If no target have a description then all
targets are appeared in the submenu. - As designed.

Comment 3 Jesse Glick 2003-09-29 14:59:22 UTC

Although we might consider making the UI more helpful: show e.g.

Run Target ->
  help
  -------------
  tomcatrestart
  -------------
  Others ->
    hsql
    hsqlDatabaseManager
    tomcatstart
    tomcatstop

I.e. default target, then any non-default targets with descriptions,
then if necessary a submenu with non-default targets without
descriptions (in alphabetical order I suppose).

vladmihaisima, if you agree that would be a better UI (more useful, or
less confusing to new users), feel free to reopen this issue, but
change to ENHANCEMENT from DEFECT, P2 -> P3.

Comment 4 vladmihaisima 2003-10-01 11:44:15 UTC

 I agree that would be a better UI because not all ant build.xml are 
made with description and if you want to use one of these it's not so 
easy (add yourself a descriptin, etc.)

Comment 5 Jesse Glick 2003-10-17 20:28:57 UTC

*** Issue 26749 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 6 heydowns 2004-03-30 15:08:06 UTC

As part of the fix for this bug, targets with a name starting with '-'
should be separated into the "more targets" submenu as well. The ant
manual states that targets beginning with '-' are those which are not
intended to be run directly from the command line.

Comment 7 Jesse Glick 2004-03-30 15:16:59 UTC

Thanks for the tip, I did not notice the convention about targets
beginning with a hyphen. Based on the description in the Ant manual, I
would exclude them from the GUI altogether - if they are not supposed
to be run directly then they would just be clutter. You can always run
them from the command line if you have to in special circumstances.

Comment 8 Jesse Glick 2004-04-20 03:20:33 UTC

More on targets beginning with a hyphen:

http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22020

Comment 9 Jesse Glick 2004-06-04 19:34:17 UTC

See commit info in issue #44360.

Comment 10 Marian Mirilovic 2005-12-20 15:49:27 UTC

This issue was solved long time ago. Because nobody has reopened it neither
added comments, we are verifying/closing it now. 
If you are still able to reproduce the problem, please reopen. Thanks in advance.