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Bug 186810

Summary:	[Markers] Problems view should indicate marker F1 help availability
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Matt Grove <msgrove>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, gdtaylor, kelvinc, Tod_Creasey
Version:	3.3	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	3.4 M3
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	195842, 162505, 195843
Bug Blocks:

Description Matt Grove

2007-05-14 11:20:47 EDT

The problems view should have some kind of UI indicator (help icon or something similar) to differentiate between markers that have F1 help associated with them via markerHelp extensions (available since 3.2) and markers that don't. Users currently have no way of knowing which markers have help associated with them. I suspect that users will stop using a function that returns inconsistent results, and I doubt that they will keep the Help view open (and taking up valuable screen space) on the off-chance that they will see help for a marker.

Comment 1 Tod Creasey

2007-10-01 11:22:47 EDT

This is implement in build >20071001. Load the example to see this in action (we are going to improve the icon).

Load the example 

Repository path: /cvsroot/org.eclipse
Module: www/eclipse/platform-ui/plugins/org.eclipse.ui.ide.examples.markers

and then generate the test markers from the markersView.

Comment 2 Tod Creasey

2007-10-29 15:33:25 EDT

Verified in I20071029-0100