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Bug 318396

Summary:

support configurable sorting of attribute editors in TaskEditorAttributePart

Product:

z_Archived

Reporter:

Kevin Sawicki <ksawicki>

Component:

Mylyn

Assignee:

Kevin Sawicki <ksawicki>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

Keywords:

contributed

Version:

unspecified

Target Milestone:

3.5

Hardware:

Macintosh

OS:

Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Patch that creates a protected method to generate the attribute editor sorter	steffen.pingel: iplog+

Description Kevin Sawicki

2010-06-29 19:25:18 EDT

Allow sorting of attribute editors in TaskEditorAttributePart to be configurable.

Currently only sorting by layout hint is possible since initialize() is private and the
attribute editors list is private.

The order of attribute editors should be configurable by task connectors so they
can support user-defined ordering and location of attribute editors.

Suggestion is either to make the list of attribute editors protected or to expose
a hook during initialize for subclasses to do their desired sorting.

Comment 1 Kevin Sawicki

2010-06-30 11:43:01 EDT

Created attachment 173113 [details]
Patch that creates a protected method to generate the attribute editor sorter

Comment 2 Kevin Sawicki

2010-06-30 11:47:37 EDT

The patch provided introduces a protected method that creates an attribute editor comparator used to sort the abstract attribute editors.  This new method is called by initialize and by default returns the current comparator implementation which sorts by layout hint priority.  Sub-classes can now override this method and provide their own sorter to control attribute editor placement.

Comment 3 Steffen Pingel

2010-07-02 14:24:22 EDT

Thanks Kevin! I have applied the patch to head.