I think 2) is enough. Having to go through a wizard like interface to create a simple Comparator is not very efficient IMHO. I would rather create my class as usual and use Ctrl-I and Ctrl-O to fill it up. My problem with 2) is in the case of Abstract classes. How would IntelliJ know which methods stay abstract and which do not? I can see the little bulb after typing "implements Comparator" to propose to define the missing methods. It might only handle concrete classes. The Abstract cases would have to be done the current way.
Jacques "Guillaume Laforge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message adlfl0$21l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:adlfl0$21l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hello > > When creating a new class extending a base class with abstract methods or > implementing a certain interface, it would be really cool if we could > automatically insert the methods that need to be implemented. > > As an example, when you create a MouseListener, you can type : > > MouseListener msl = new [TAB] > > When you hit TAB, you have the choice to implement an inline MouseListener > or a MouseAdapter. > It's pretty convenient. > > But when you create a new class, you just have a blank class, with no > methods, no implementation or extension. > So my IDEA, would be to provide two new helper features : > > 1) When you click on the project pane, and then in your sourcepath you > right-click to invoke the contextual menu. > You get a "New" item, with a list of new stuffs : "Class", "Interface", > "File" and "Package". > The first idea is to add another sub-list after "Class" and "Interface" : > Class should have as sub-items : "extends class" and "implements class" that > would show up a nice pop-up window with a list of Class or a list of > Interface to extend or to implement (respectively). > For the Interface item, it could also have an "extends interface" which > would give us also a window within which we could choose an interface to > extend. > > 2) Second enhancement, when a class is already created (or a newly created > class not implementing or extending anything), the user has that : > > public class Stuff extends | [CTRL-SPACE] > { > } > > When he starts writting "extends" or "implements" and asks for the > auto-completion feature using CTRL-SPACE, when the user choose a class with > abstract methods or an interface, all the methods that need to be > implemented should be auto-magically inserted in the class (if they don't > already exist). > > > Let's vote on these features ! What do you think about these things ? > Personnaly, I'd appreciate a lot to do that. Especially since lately I've > been implementing some comparators that implements the Comparator interface, > creating some derived class from some abstract base class returned by > factories, etc... There are many cases when you have to implement an > interface or extends a class. That's one of the basis of object oriented > programming ! > All you comments are welcome ! > > -- > Guillaume > > _______________________________________________ Eap-features mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features
