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Bug 367644

Summary: [TCF] Need a way to perform operations "silently"
Product: [Tools] TCF Reporter: Uwe Stieber <uwe.st>
Component: TargetAssignee: Project Inbox <tcf.tm-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Uwe Stieber <uwe.st>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: cdtdoug, martin.gutschelhofer, william.chen
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 1.0.0   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
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Description Uwe Stieber CLA 2011-12-30 02:53:57 EST 
Figure out a way to do operations like the processes auto-refresh silently. This means it should not have a visual effect to the tree. At the moment the green marker is "blinking".
Comment 1 William Chen CLA 2011-12-30 04:17:34 EST 
I don't quite understand what do you mean by silent auto-refreshing. If the auto-refreshing does not have a visual feedback, what is its existence value? What do you mean by a "blinking" green marker?
Comment 2 Uwe Stieber CLA 2011-12-30 07:37:15 EST 
The peer node is decorated with a little green bullet in the right lower corner if there is an active channel. It means the peer is "in-use" or "busy". Each time the refresh job is running, the peer node gets decorated for a little while. You will have to do it with a remote target where the refresh does take a little while. I'm sure you won't see this effect with an agent running on localhost. If you have the standard refresh rate (5sec), you'll get a nice little "blinking" green bubble.

In Workbench we had the choice of marking a job "silent", which means "no busy decoration". Here with the Target Explorer this is a bit more difficult to achieve, as the decoration is not set by the job explicitly. The decoration here is triggered by a (desired) channel listener.
Comment 3 Uwe Stieber CLA 2012-04-24 03:24:08 EDT 
The green bullet decoration has been removed.