Re: Change behaviour for opening forms-based Java files

Tim Boudreau wrote:
> Thomas Wolf wrote:
> 
>>
>> Over in nbusers, I recently commented on the unintuitive behaviour of
>> the IDE with respect to opening Java source files that have forms 
>> associated
>> with them from the Explorer:
>>
>> Currently, when you double-click on such a Java file from the 
>> Explorer, it
>> always opens the form designer.  But this is not very intuitive - 
>> especially
>> if the file was already opened but in "Source" view.
>>
>> Intuitively, double-clicking on the file in the Explorer should open 
>> the file
>> in whatever view you had left it in previously.  If not previously 
>> opened, the
>> default view/editor  should be configurable (as is the case in the 
>> Property
>> editor.)  If configuring the default is not feasible, the default 
>> should be
>> "Source", since the average developer will be spending alot more time 
>> editing
>> the source code than designing the layout via the designer.
>>
>> People in the nbusers mailing list seemed to concur but suggested I 
>> put it up
>> for discussion in this forum.  So I am.  I already created an issue 
>> (issue
>> #54961) for this, so if the overwhelming feedback here is that I'm 
>> wrong, I'll
>> cancel the issue...but I'm sure you guys will agree - right? :-)
> 
> 
> If it's already open with the Editor showing, yes, I think it should 
> just switch to that tab and not switch to the designer.

(Implementation hint:  OpenCookie should check for presence of 
EditorCookie [means the file is being edited], and if so, look for an 
EditCookie and delegate to it).

-Tim