> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Kinnucan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 2:34 PM
> The following is an example of how the speedbar will look:
>
> + 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
This looks very groovy and useful. My one big concen is that this looks too
'deep'- with inner classes you get a lot nesting and requiretd
clicking/keystrokes to navigate to where you would like.
How about instead:
+ A.java
- B.java
- Package
com.mycompany.pkg1
- class B
- method1 ()
- (arg1
@ String
+ |arg2
+ )arg3
@ void
+ method2 ()
+ field1 =
- field2 =
@ BeanInfo
+ field3 =
- class B:InnerClassA
+ method1 ()
+ field1 =
+ class B:InnerClassA:InnerclassAA
+ class B:InnerClassB
> Frame
- Misc
import java.lang.String
import java.awt.Frame
+ C.java
This way things do not get quite so deep - there is no 'Types', and inner
classes are considered on the same level as the outer class, however with a
prefix to illustrate the heirarchy. The one disadvantage is that the name
for inner classes quickly becomes very long, to the point that the speedbar
'form factor' as a side bar affects things.
Perhaps instead of
+ class B:InnerClassA:InnerclassAA
you can have
- inner InnerclassAA
and contained element
+ outer B:InnerClassA
>
> The new version of speedbar does not support expansion of
> methods. However,
> Eric and I have discussed the desirability of this capability. The benefit
> I can see would be the ability to navigate to variables and
> classes defined
> within methods. The tradeoff would be greater time to parse the buffer.
Would it be feasable to have this as an option then? If parsing time is
tolerable I would much rather have this feature, but 'tolerable' is a term
that is hard to measure across different people. :)
-David Waite
