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| Summary: | [CheatSheet] [plan item] Improve cheat sheet support | ||
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| Product: | [Eclipse Project] Platform | Reporter: | Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson> |
| Component: | User Assistance | Assignee: | platform-ua-inbox <platform-ua-inbox> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P4 | CC: | aiproulx, aweirig, eclipse, gunnar, jhayes, jmockler, khalsted, kpeter, mkomor |
| Version: | 3.1 | Keywords: | plan |
| Target Milestone: | 3.2 M6 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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Description
Mike Wilson
Is it possible to have a design where, a CheatSheatProvider can be registered as a plug-in, which will return a list of cheat sheats from a file or web server, and also provides the actual cheat sheats downloaded from the web rather then local machine. This allows people to author and publish cheat sheats to a central server and all developers in an organization can view the new cheat sheats right away. Of course this will only work when the cheatsheats use existing action classes only, or when the cheat sheats only meant to be used as team notes/team communication mechanism. I have been working on cheatsheets the last couple of days for Eclipse 3.0.x (i.e. the IBM Rational Application Developer). Here are some features I would like to see: * more formatting options, the text shown could/should be HTML (using bulletted lists, colored text, etc) * being able to put subitems in between 2 description blocks * on a repetitive item being able to define 2 or more subitems I'm also having some problems with the Workbench integration. From a cheatsheet action, I would like to run the Subclipse commit action. Unfortunately this fails because the Subclipse action can't find the selected projects in the navigator since the navigator has lost the focus (that's my best guess at this point of time). It would be nice if the cheatsheet could implement listeners to Workbench events? I have been working on cheatsheets the last couple of days for Eclipse 3.0.x (i.e. the IBM Rational Application Developer). Here are some features I would like to see: * more formatting options, the text shown could/should be HTML (using bulletted lists, colored text, etc) * being able to put subitems in between 2 description blocks * on a repetitive item being able to define 2 or more subitems I'm also having some problems with the Workbench integration. From a cheatsheet action, I would like to run the Subclipse commit action. Unfortunately this fails because the Subclipse action can't find the selected projects in the navigator since the navigator has lost the focus (that's my best guess at this point of time). It would be nice if the cheatsheet could implement listeners to Workbench events? The text of this item in the plan has changed. The new text is: " The Eclipse cheat sheet infrastructure was implemented 3.0, but is still not widely used. For cheat sheets to be become more widely adopted, the base support should be enhanced in several ways, including: adding support for invoking commands without the need for Java programming; make cheat sheets more scalable; providing for nonlinear dependancy between steps and enhancing the implementation to support working with modal dialogs. [UA, UI] " This plan item has been completed. |