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Bug 41071

Summary:	XYZ could be hidden by PropertyPanel
Product:	projects	Reporter:	Jaroslav Tulach <jtulach>
Component:	Generic Infrastructure	Assignee:	Petr Hrebejk <phrebejk>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX
Severity:	blocker	CC:	dkonecny, jglick, tboudreau, tzezula
Priority:	P3
Version:	4.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	40703

Description Jaroslav Tulach 2004-03-17 15:05:43 UTC

In general it would be nice to have working
PropertyEditors for various types defined by
project APIs. During my work on webstart module
needed a UI component to select list of
AntArtefacts from other modules. If there was a
(ex) property editor for AntArtefact[], I could
just reuse it (via PropertyPanel right now) and I
would not need to bother. The same applies to
LibraryCustomizer, that could disappear from api
if turned into PropertyEditor and probably
ProjectChooser which could be editor for Project
class.

I understand that this may not be the highest
priority, but I consider such cobundle of UI with
API good practice which shall be addressed as time
permits at least in the most obvious cases
Project, AntArtefact[], ReferenceHelper which
nearly every project type needs to provide UI for.

Comment 1 Jaroslav Tulach 2004-03-17 15:10:57 UTC

There was a discussion about usage of PropertyPanel on nbdev
(http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=715504&listName=nbdev)
which questioned its usefulness, but as it seems right now, this was
more comment about the API which can be replaced, the SPI -
ExPropertyEditor - seemed reasonably ok to be used and useful.

Comment 2 Jesse Glick 2004-03-18 10:02:55 UTC

This is actually multiple requests, so feel free to split up into
multiple issues. Based on what I have heard mentioned so far, some may
be WONTFIX, but I don't really understand the property sheet API (does
anyone except Tim?) so I won't comment further.

Comment 3 _ tboudreau 2004-03-18 10:51:29 UTC

As I mentioned to Jarda last night, ExPropertyEditor is not so good and useful - that is, its 
main problems are that:
 - Nobody understands it
 - PropertyEnv munges together all sorts of totally orthagonal things - managing OK 
buttons, finding feature descriptors, etc...
 - The design is optimized for ease of maintenance, at the cost of a cryptic API.  In other 
words, it makes things easier for us by making it harder for anyone actually using it

That said, go ahead and use it if you want.

Comment 4 Petr Hrebejk 2004-05-03 13:24:27 UTC

Dedcided not to use the property editor paradigm.

Comment 5 Marian Mirilovic 2005-07-12 10:01:25 UTC

closed