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Bug 311880

Summary:

Add preference to keep position of excluded files in Project Explorer

Product:

[Tools] CDT

Reporter:

Alex Freidin <freidin.alex>

Component:

cdt-core

Assignee:

Anton Leherbauer <aleherb+eclipse>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Doug Schaefer <cdtdoug>

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

CC:

malaperle

Version:

6.0

Target Milestone:

8.0

Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Modifies sorting of excluded files according to user preference	none
Patch	aleherb+eclipse: iplog+

Description Alex Freidin

2010-05-06 09:48:25 EDT

Build Identifier: I20090611-1540

While working with large projects, it is sometimes more convenient to keep the position of a file after it was excluded from build. At the moment, excluded files are moved down to the bottom of directory listing and if you often include/exclude a specific file in a large directory, you need to look for it, as its position changes.
I added a preference in Window > Preferences > C/C++ > Appearance, so that the default behavior could be changed to keep the files order.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Alex Freidin

2010-05-06 11:41:15 EDT

Created attachment 167330 [details]
Modifies sorting of excluded files according to user preference

The patch is based on CDT_6_0_0 tag sources, not tested with HEAD.

Comment 2 Anton Leherbauer

2010-10-14 02:29:37 EDT

I think this makes sense.

Comment 3 Alex Freidin

2011-02-24 11:34:40 EST

Created attachment 189713 [details]
Patch

Updated patch for CDT 7.0.1 and HEAD.

Comment 4 Anton Leherbauer

2011-02-25 03:27:37 EST

Thanks, I committed the patch with a minor change to the wording of the preference:

Keep sort order of excluded sources in Project Explorer and C/C++ Projects view

Hope that's OK.

Comment 5 CDT Genie

2011-02-25 04:23:21 EST

*** cdt cvs genie on behalf of aleherbau ***
Bug 311880 - Add preference to keep position of excluded files in Project Explorer
Patch by Alex Freidin

[*] PreferenceConstants.java 1.63 http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.cdt/all/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/ui/PreferenceConstants.java?root=Tools_Project&r1=1.62&r2=1.63
[*] CElementSorter.java 1.25 http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.cdt/all/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/ui/CElementSorter.java?root=Tools_Project&r1=1.24&r2=1.25

[*] PreferencesMessages.java 1.52 http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.cdt/all/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/ui/preferences/PreferencesMessages.java?root=Tools_Project&r1=1.51&r2=1.52
[*] PreferencesMessages.properties 1.103 http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.cdt/all/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/ui/preferences/PreferencesMessages.properties?root=Tools_Project&r1=1.102&r2=1.103
[*] AppearancePreferencePage.java 1.14 http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.cdt/all/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/ui/preferences/AppearancePreferencePage.java?root=Tools_Project&r1=1.13&r2=1.14

Comment 6 Alex Freidin

2011-02-27 03:45:26 EST

Thanks for applying.

Comment 7 Marc-André Laperle

2012-02-04 01:32:52 EST

What about keeping the order of the folders? This doesn't seem to work for me (8.0.1 and 8.0.2 RC2). Was it intended to work in the original patch?