Re: wocomponent wizard preview

From: Chuck Hill (chil..lobal-village.net)
Date: Mon Feb 23 2009 - 23:53:09 EST

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    On Feb 23, 2009, at 8:37 PM, Q wrote:

    >
    > On 24/02/2009, at 9:26 AM, Lachlan Deck wrote:
    >
    >> On 24/02/2009, at 9:27 AM, Q wrote:
    >>
    >>> On 24/02/2009, at 2:16 AM, John Huss wrote:
    >>>
    >>>> +1 for simplicity.
    >>>>
    >>>> Would it be possible have a default value for "package" which is
    >>>> the same package as Main.java?
    >>>
    >>> From memory the current wizard might already do this, and is also
    >>> slightly smarter than that again. It should default the package to
    >>> the package of the component that was selected before you ran new
    >>> wocomponent, failing that, if you selected a folder I think it
    >>> actually looks in the folder and uses the same package as the
    >>> first wo component it finds in there. So when organising
    >>> components into folders and corresponding packages the first one
    >>> you create in a new folder may not have the desired package as the
    >>> default, but every one after that should.
    >>
    >> Now auto-populating the package... (some extra tweaking will come)
    >
    >
    > Looking better. Here are a few thoughts using mike's red pen:
    >
    > <Picture 5.jpg>
    >
    > - There is no validation failure reason for not being able to click
    > finish.
    > - Providing a no content option in the doctype combo could possibly
    > eliminate the need for the doctype checkbox.

    Are you thinking of using this for templates? e.g. No Content, Full
    Page, My Custom Template etc?

    >
    > - Remove the WOO checkbox, if you can't change it you don't need to
    > show it.
    > - Remove the API checkbox, this is pretty useless without custom
    > templates, it would otherwise be empty, and it's created on demand
    > anyway.
    > - The encoding combo can probably shrink down a bit now after
    > dropping the NSOverlyVerboseObjectiveCEncodingNames.
    > - Package textbox is shorter? Is this the max length java allows?
    > Why not the same length as superclass?
    > - How many people are honestly going to need or use interfaces with
    > a wocomponent, ever? Regular java classes I use them often, but
    > never for wocomponents.

    I do use them, though not as often as with other classes. I am quite
    happy to see this interface picker go away.

    Looking good!

    Chuck 

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