[jbosstools-dev] VPE editor

Hi, I have two suggestions for improving performance in the VPE editor: - 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). - 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. These features are easy to implement and don't require a lot of changes in the code. Snjeza