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Bug 353972

Summary:	Extend basic wizards using "template infrastructure"
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Tony Chen <chenzhh>
Component:	EDT	Assignee:	Project Inbox <edt.ide.ui-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	smythew
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Tony Chen

2011-08-05 04:06:09 EDT

<from William A Smythe>
I *really* think we need to carry over the infrastructure that was put in place
for the New EGL Record wizard and support the concept of templates. Being able
to extend these basic wizards is very powerful for us because it makes it easy
to give users more options AND it avoids dirtying up our wizards with lots of
options that don't apply in all contexts. It's also valuable to enable others
to contribute their own templates.

It would be *very* easy to have the handler/widget wizards use this same
infrastructure. The infrastructure is designed to make it really used to
leverage existing templates (defined in the EGL preferences).

The EGL Record wizard also provides a nice preview function so developers can
see the code before it's created. This is obviously more useful if there are
configuration options in the wizard (that impact the generated code), but is
still useful/interesting.
</from William A Smythe>


wizards to be considered include new handler, new widget, new service.

Comment 1 Tony Chen

2011-08-29 01:53:09 EDT

We have extended the "new project" wizard using the template style.

Comment 2 Will Smythe

2011-12-16 15:12:54 EST

The New Handler wizard now supports templates. Once we have a need for service templates, we can add this infrastructure to the New EGL Service wizard.