Hi Paul! Thank you for soliciting early input on the new speedbar
design attached below.
I think the main problem with the design is that there are too many
clicks required to get to the most common case, i.e., selecting a
method in a toplevel class. As I understand it, once you have visited
the file, you still need to click ONCE to expand "Types", a SECOND
time to expand "class B", in order to see the list of methods to
choose from.
Perhaps a good way to handle this is provide a (customizable) facility whereby
certain levels in the tree are expanded by default when you change buffers.
In particular, when I visit B.java, I would like to see the following in the
speedbar without extra effort on my part:
+ A.java
- B.java
+ Package
- Types
- class B
+ method1 ()
+ method2 ()
+ field1 =
+ field2 =
+ field3 =
+ class InnerClassA
+ class InnerClassB
> Frame
+ Misc
+ C.java
Thanks! -CR
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+ A.java
- B.java
- Package
com.mycompany.pkg1
- Types
- class B
- method1 ()
- (arg1
@ String
+ |arg2
+ )arg3
@ void
+ method2 ()
+ field1 =
- field2 =
@ BeanInfo
+ field3 =
- class InnerClassA
+ InnerClass AA
+ method1 ()
+ field1 =
+ class InnerClassB
> Frame
- Misc
import java.lang.String
import java.awt.Frame
+ C.java
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