Re: [NB4DEV] An experiment: Project explorer

Svata Dedic <[email protected]> Mon, 05 May 2003 21:31:05 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.projects.devel
Organization CollabNet Hosting
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Vitezslav Stejskal wrote:
> 
> How exactly your actions behave? Do they always work with the project 
> visible in the explorer? Is is allowed to edit files from multiple 
> projects at the same time? If yes, how project-wide actions work when 
> you try to invoke them from edited source file?
> 

In the prototype, visible project == active project.

Any files can be opened at any time. I thought about optionally allowing 
to track "current" project rather than "active" project in the Project 
Explorer - the visible project would then change when the user starts to 
edit a file from another project, but the active project - related 
actions (see below) would need some additional thinking then.

The actions are, in fact, good old "(Re)Build Active Project", although 
the "Active Project" was substituted by "Project" or "Project 
<project-name>".

> Another question is about tabs in the explorer. Is is allowed for 
> natures to add their own tabs and present another view on the project's 
> content?
> 
Yes.

-Svata