Re: [ANN] TODOs in standard build

Vincent Brabant wrote:

> Hereafter summary of my complaints:
> 1. icons have no tooltips. So, impossible to know their usage by letting
> the mouse cursor on. 2. by default it does that for all mounted
> filesystems. After one hour, it was not yet finished (I had only the
> netbeans source). I tried to click on the stop button, but the result was
> the button disappear, and no more possible to click on it. 

You can change the scope default to project by setting system property
-J-Dtodos.project=project. You can also restructure your mounts
and mount sources for files you work on and binaries for libraries.
I plan to optimize scannig later on, mainly pushing on java
EditorCookie provider.

> 3. sometimes
> the title of columns dissapear, or to be more exact are displayed in a one
> pixel height (so you can't read the title) 
> 4. Sometimes column titled
> suggestion has no more title.
> 5. In the Change Visible Columns, the first
> column has no title.

I saw it few times too. I guess that it's TreeTableView issue.

> 6. In the tools | Options, you can only change string
> to search for, but not add or remove them. Buttons are disabled. 

UI not yet fully specified, TBD.

> 7. It's
> always running and Impossible to work with it anymore. I will kill the
> application :-(( 

Details here, please.

> 8. It seems that sometimes it displays message in the
> message line of the netbeans ide. Sometimes aside the three icones. The
> All files tab was enabled and message displayed aside the three icons. I
> clicked on the Current File tab and the message was then displayed in the
> message line, at the bottom of the main windows.

In my opinion it's writing to main status bar excessively.
I prune it back.

> 9. Filters are not IMHO
> sufficient : You can't create filter depending on priority or filter
> depending on place where Strings are found (in COMMENT or NOT in COMMENT).

The priority filter is ommission. The context filter is possible
enhancement for future version.

> 10. Icons have nice colors. 11. I never succes to use netbeans after
> launching the TODO window. So, for me, it failed.
> 12. I prefered the old way where I could choose the directory and ask to
> scan for that directory. I really found stupid the approach to have only
> choice between Parse All Filesystems  or parse just the current file. 13.

We was not able to invent UI for Scanned TODOs that would be
consistent with All Files and Current File inner tabs. At maximum
one outer tab is allowed for one kind of tool window according
to new window system guidelines.

> I finally receive a lot of Parser Error: Out of Memory Exception. And
> Impossible to stop it, except by killing NetBeans. *********** Exception
> occurred ************ at Wed Dec 17 03:44:23 CET 2003 Annotation: Parser
> error
> [catch]java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
> ==>
> WARNING - ErrorManager detected cyclic exception nesting:
>         java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
> Be sure not to annotate an exception with itself, directly or indirectly.

I hope that impossibility to stop is given by window system bug that
consumes mouse events. So you have to click twice on the Stop button
(should be fixed now) or press ESC key. 

> 14. Each time I select Window TODOs, system open a new TODO window and
> restart parsing on all filesystems in place of displaying the existing TO

It's bug.

> DO window. Before it has normal that it opened a new TODO window because
> you can have a TODO window for each filesystems for example. But now, you
> have all or nothing, so it's totally stupid to open a totally new window
> and restart parsing on all filesystems. 15. It must clearly be improved. I
> begin to regret to old implementation.

Just curious, have you scanned the same scope (whole repository)?

  Cc.

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