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Bug 28778 - Check registered editors before making issuing CVS edit
Summary: Check registered editors before making issuing CVS edit
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: obsolete
Classification: Unclassified
Component: vcsgeneric (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: PC Windows ME/2000
: P2 blocker with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee: Martin Entlicher
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Reported: 2002-11-15 14:16 UTC by tkellerer
Modified: 2011-09-19 22:50 UTC (History)
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Description tkellerer 2002-11-15 14:16:18 UTC 
When working with read only files and CVS it would
be nice if NetBeans checked the registered editors
before issuing a the CVS edit command. 

When starting to edit a read only file, NetBeans
asks if it should make it writeable by issuing the
CVS edit command. This is perfect. This dialog box
should (ideally) include the display of currently
registered editors for this file, so that the user
can decide if he/she really wants to issue the CVS
edit command in that case.
Comment 1 tkellerer 2004-04-19 15:31:17 UTC 
Any chances that this will be included in 4.0 ?
Comment 2 Martin Entlicher 2004-04-19 15:51:46 UTC 
This is not a bad idea, but the schedule for 4.0 is pretty tight.
Feature freeze is in the middle of May and we have a bunch of
must-to-have tasks to implement.

This would be pretty hard to implement.
org.openide.util.UserQuestionException is used to handle the question
dialog. It's designed for a simple text and Y/N answer. One can not
add a component that would retrieve the list of current editors.

The list of registered editors can not be included into the
UserQuestionException description, because the retrieval process can
take a long time.

There's no simple way how this can be implemented (we're limited by
the APIs), therefore I do not expect that this will be implemented
into 4.0, unfortunately.
Comment 3 tkellerer 2004-08-06 22:51:19 UTC 
Hmm that's bad news :( 
Especially taking into account that I entered this issue more then a
year and two versions ago...
Comment 4 Martin Entlicher 2004-08-09 15:13:59 UTC 
We have unfortunately many old enhancements pending.
If you think that some enhancement will be valuable for users, but
it's not being addressed for a long time, increase it's priority.

We do not use the Edit/Editors/Watch, etc. commands here (when
accessing cvs.netbeans.org), so this might be why this did not get
appropriate attention. I understand that for workgroups which use the
read-only checkout this would be a valuable enhancement, so I'm
increasing the priority, it will hopefully be scheduled for some near
future release (4.0 is already after feature freeze).
Comment 5 tkellerer 2004-09-01 11:45:53 UTC 
Just a side-note: IntelliJ IDEA does have that feature :)