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Bug 37444

Summary: Need something similiar to IMoveDeleteHook to notify of BEFORE executing move/delete
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Richard Kulp <richkulp>
Component: ResourcesAssignee: Platform-Resources-Inbox <platform-resources-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: sppatel2
Version: 2.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
Whiteboard:

Description Richard Kulp CLA 2003-05-09 12:51:04 EDT 
Need some sort of a pre-move/delete resource notification. The reason is that we
have some files locked (they typically are jars and are running in a application
that our plugin has programatically launched). When we receive such
notification, we can close out the application so that the files are no longer
locked and can be deleted. Copying the files before launching is not feasible.

In the current way, if the user tries to delete such files, all they get is a
message that they couldn't delete it for some reason. They don't know why, they
don't know that our plugin has locked the file.

This is just a request to consider this for 3.0.

Thanks.
Comment 1 John Arthorne CLA 2003-07-31 12:30:17 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13530 ***
Comment 2 Richard Kulp CLA 2003-07-31 14:35:36 EDT 
I looked at 13530 and yes this defect is a duplicate of it, BUT 13530 has been
marked as a duplicate of  36943. I think that is a problem. 36943 does not talk
at all about a PRE_Delete hook. It just talks about refactoring API needed. I
need the PRE_Delete hook (in fact a lot of people do, this comes in the forums
many times) and it has nothing to do with refactoring. I'm afraid the
requirement for a pre-delete hook would get lost if someone simply looked at
36943. Thanks.
Comment 3 DJ Houghton CLA 2003-07-31 14:40:07 EDT 
John has added comments re: delete in the discussions on the mailing lists 
about the new refactoring RFC.
Comment 4 John Arthorne CLA 2003-11-03 16:00:40 EST 
*** Bug 45950 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***