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Bug 322196

Summary: [call hierarchy] Easy to forget the 'Search In' settings in the Call Hierarchy view.
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Deepak Azad <deepakazad>
Component: UIAssignee: JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: daniel_megert, markus.kell.r
Version: 3.7   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard: stalebug

Description Deepak Azad CLA 2010-08-10 00:21:57 EDT 
The message at the top of the call hierarchy view says something like this - ' Members calling 'abcd()' - in workspace/working set xyz (no JRE) '

There are 2 problems
a) The '(no JRE)' part is present if in the 'Search In' settings the user has excluded JRE libraries. But there is no indication of other 'Search In' settings in the view and the user can easily forget what he had set. 
b) If you get a number of results it gets difficult for the user to figure out where a match was found. I am assuming matches in source files are considered more important than others, but it is always good to see matches in other places as well (at least I work this way).

Search view does not have the second problem as the search results are grouped by project. And you anyway cannot specify 'Search In' options in the view after doing a search. You can do that only on the Java Search page. Hence I think the Search view is ok.

Possible solutions
for a) Improve the label at the top of Call Hierarchy view - if we add more text it might get too wordy. Maybe we can use icons for each 'Search In' option with a '/' overlay on locations which were not selected?
for b) The search API gives only the matches but not where(source, jre etc) they were found. I guess you could still figure that out in SearchRequestor, but I dont know how expensive/complicated that is going to be.
Comment 1 Dani Megert CLA 2010-08-10 02:32:21 EDT 
>And you anyway cannot specify 'Search In' options in the view after doing a 
>search.
Which makes it much harder in the Search view to find out the used settings ;-)

Anyway, any solution must be kept in sync with Search as we copied the settings area from there. See bug 153102 for the related request in Search.
Comment 2 Markus Keller CLA 2010-08-11 07:00:38 EDT 
Icons are not accessible, and we cannot add icons in the history popup menu in the Search view.
Comment 3 Eclipse Genie CLA 2019-01-05 20:32:46 EST 
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