[jbosstools-dev] Re: 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). > 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