Re: ProjectFileChooser

Hi,

I think there is real need for something like "project-file-chooser" and 
we plan to provide something like this by projects infrastructure. The 
requirements I am aware of are as follows:

- be able to select files from whatever 'computer-known-location' - this 
is mainly for adding various stuff into the project
- be able to select files from the 'project-known-location' - this is 
mainly for assigning roles to files/folder on the project (e.g. adding 
Java source roots)
- be able to remember locations recently selected by the user; there 
should be possible to remember locations independently for several 
different operations (domains) e.g. opening/creating project, selecting 
files/folder which will end up in sources, selecting files/folder which 
will end up as resources, ...

The projects infrastructure should allow to remember and reuse 
recently-selected-locations and to access the project-file-chooser UI.

My idea about the UI is to reuse the JFileChooser UI and somehow feed it 
by FileObject (or nodes constructed for them) from the Netbeans 
filesystems. The question is whether the JFileChooser UI is ok or we 
should have another alternative UI?

-vita

Svata Dedic wrote:

> cL wrote:
>
>> we'll need to see if this a very general need or specific to jar 
>> packager (i'm assuming that what we're dealing with here). if it's 
>
>
> I did say "it is sufficient to have a FileChooser", not "we do not 
> have a need for Project Filechooser".
>
> Compare, for instance, the usability of filechooser generally used in 
> Windows 98 (there are meta-objects, like Desktop, My Computer, ...) 
> and in Windows 3.11 (pure filechoosers). And consistency throughout 
> the system matters, too.
>
> BTW I requested this file chooser months ago (in November ?), to 
> provide more usable browsing even for java-related stuff, but the 
> request was somehow ignored (no clear resolution from UI). Also please 
> see Vita's message from 12th November 2002 
> (http://projects.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=406491&listName=dev). 
>
>
> -Svata
>
>
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