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Bug 23441 - [ustudy] Better checks for errors in javaprj wizard panels
Summary: [ustudy] Better checks for errors in javaprj wizard panels
Status: CLOSED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: projects
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Generic Projects UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: PC All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Dirk Ruiz
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Depends on:
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Reported: 2002-05-14 09:32 UTC by Vitezslav Stejskal
Modified: 2003-12-11 14:25 UTC (History)
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Description Vitezslav Stejskal 2002-05-14 09:32:53 UTC 
> 2.  New project creation: errors should (as much as possible) be handled on the
>     page on which they occur.  Otherwise, you get to the end of the wizard and
>     only then find out you goofed up (and what's worse is that the project
>     doesn't get created).  I realize this might be hard to fix, so let's make it lower
>     priority...
>

In fact some errors can't be recognized before the project creation is performed.
It would be fair when wizard could return user to panel where she pressed Finish,
allowing her to correct problem and retry project creation or cancle the wizard.
I am not sure if it would be possible for prototype (most probably not), but I
will pass this to David, who is designing wizards framework right now. For the
protoype I would concentrate to fix most problematic use cases and add as many
checks to panels as needed/possible.
Comment 1 Vitezslav Stejskal 2002-05-15 18:02:08 UTC 
Dirk, do you know about any situation when user can insert invalid information in wizard panel and it 
allows him to proceed? I am a bit confused and don't know what to fix ;-).
Comment 2 Vitezslav Stejskal 2002-05-20 12:22:23 UTC 
target milestone -> 4.0
Comment 3 David Konecny 2002-10-03 10:25:47 UTC 
Assigning to Dirk/UI to provide more info.
Comment 4 Vitezslav Stejskal 2002-12-01 16:16:06 UTC 
This sounds like general report that our wizards should behave
correctly, but nobody described any concrete problem yet. I think all
developers know that they have to make wizards as stable as possible
(like any other code they write). So, please file separate issues for
concrete problems.
Comment 5 Dirk Ruiz 2002-12-02 19:15:08 UTC 
Agreed.  I hadn't run into any concrete situations where
this seemed to happen.  But if I do I will file separate
bugs for them.
Comment 6 Dirk Ruiz 2002-12-02 19:29:00 UTC 
Sorry, I hit the Commit button before finishing the
message.

For what it's worth, I recall that this was related to 
an old prototype problem, in which the user could 
accidentally do something like create an output folder
with the same name as her project's home directory.
The wizard would exit, and THEN give an error message.
I'll check this out in the current prototype, and file
a bug if it's still a problem.
Comment 7 Jan Becicka 2003-11-25 13:59:50 UTC 
As described in
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=619519&listName=nbdiscuss the
current work on projects prototype has been stopped.

Marking issue as VERIFIED --->
Comment 8 Jan Becicka 2003-11-25 14:08:38 UTC 
---> CLOSED