[jbosstools-dev] Re: VPE editor

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

> - lazy Visual Editor update
> The Visual editor is updated on every keystroke. I propose to postpone
> the update for some time. This means - if a user enters a few keys
> quickly, the Visual editor will be updated only once. There is the
> org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui.sourcevalidation extenison point within the
> Webtools project that can be used for adding this feature. It is also
> possible to implement this feature using the code I added when fixing
> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-1479 (we could use 400 ms during
> editing; this is the default value for the sourcevalidation extenison
> point).

If we don't have that already (I thought we had) then definitly since I even 
did that for my trivial HQL to SQL view and that gave a tremendous speedup (at
least it is perceived to the user as such)

> - adding the Link (Synchronize) action to the Visual editor next to the
> Preferences, Refresh, Page Design Options actions.
> This action would be a check box similar to the "Link with editor" in
> the Package Explorer view. It would be checked/enabled by default. In
> that case, the VPE would behave as it does now. If the user disables the
> action, the VPE wouldn't be updated (VpeController.notifyChanged()
> wouldn't be called). This would be very useful when editing large JSP
> files. The user could always call Refresh (or check Link) to show the
> visual part of the editor.

I see what you mean here, and I like the idea but what happens when the user
disabled the synchronization and changes from one part of the view to the other -
I guess it should be forcefully updated to make sure the two views are in sync when 
they edit each others models ?

/max