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Bug 354587

Summary:	[Dialogs][Wizards] Allow creation of multiple files in the 'New File' wizard
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Sándor Juhász <blackghost>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5	CC:	pwebster, remy.suen
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Sándor Juhász

2011-08-12 04:23:45 EDT

Build Identifier: 20110615-0604

Can't select multiple files in the file browser when using the "Advanced - Link to file in the file system" option for adding new file links.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Remy Suen

2011-08-12 09:02:48 EDT

Not quite sure I follow. You want one file in Eclipse to link to multiple files in your hard disk?

Comment 2 Sándor Juhász

2011-08-13 08:20:45 EDT

No, I want to create multiple links at once.(In reply to comment #1)
> Not quite sure I follow. You want one file in Eclipse to link to multiple files
> in your hard disk?

Comment 3 Remy Suen

2011-08-13 08:28:08 EDT

(In reply to comment #2)
> No, I want to create multiple links at once.

We'd first have to let people create multiple files in the one wizard though this goes against the convention of most other wizards.

Comment 4 Sándor Juhász

2011-08-13 11:22:55 EDT

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > No, I want to create multiple links at once.
> 
> We'd first have to let people create multiple files in the one wizard though
> this goes against the convention of most other wizards.

Thanks for the answer.
Maybe the creation of new files and links should be in a different wizard (after all it's in the 'advanced' section, which is hidden by default, so it won't be confusing for normal users). So there could be a distinct menu item for creating links, and there you could select multiple files at once, without affecting the simple New file wizard.

Comment 5 Lars Vogel

2019-11-14 03:09:05 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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