Re: TaskList API proposal

Tor Norbye <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.tasklist.devel
Message-ID <1035832422.17069.370.camel@proto>
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 10:36, Tim Lebedkov wrote:
> > > 5. Independent of (4): SuggestionProvider should have a method [double
> > > getProgress()] that returns it's progress in percents. We can use this
> > > information
> > >     to present a progress bar to the user.
> I've used source scanner (not the new action from menu but for current
> document) and when I switch to a new editor I don't know
> whether it already scanned all sources or didn't found anything. [boolean
> isReady()] would be enough too.

So you're advocating that users should know exactly when
the suggestion providers have run? I'll think about that a little.
I can see how it's useful for the document scanner but I think it's
problematic in the general case where there's dozens of suggestion
providers in the system. 

-- Tor
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