Re: LPEX tasks & iSphere - just looking at this and some thoughts

This gets interesting: I accidentally discovered that apparently someone
was halfway implementing the TODO tasks in LPEX. If you enter a comment
starting with 'xxx' (or 'XXX') the effect is the same as with the iSphere
TODO tasks; it shows up in the Tasks view as an 'LPEX task'.

So we have two incomplete implementations:

1. LPEX task (TODO or FIX or XXX):
- Is shown in the Tasks view
- Is shown as a blue (hoverable) marker when the source is opened
- Can not be marked as complete
- Double clicking the task opens the source, but does not take you to the
line

2. Task:
- Is shown in the Tasks view
- Is initially not shown as a blue marker when the source is opened (only
after checking or unchecking completed the marker is shown)
- Can be marked as complete
- Double clicking opens the source and takes you to the line

I think that if only tasks were shown when opening the source, the LPEX
tasks would not be needed.

Joep Beckeringh

Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[WDSCI-L] LPEX tasks & iSphere - just looking at this and some thoughts

Hi

One of the things iSphere has is a Tasks component, which ties in with
the Java and other task setup in RDi.

When turned on, it pulls lines with the text '// TODO', for example, and

displays them in a Tasks view, from which you can double click the task
and open the source it came from.

Seems nice enough - but you can't mark these auto-listed tasks as
complete, therefore you can't remove completed ones from the list. This
is apparently by design of Eclipse.

I'm wondering just how useful this is - for awhile this morning I
thought it was not so good - then I just had the thought that maybe the
idea is to remove the tag line from source when the thing is done.

Does that line up with anyone's thoughts here?

Now I do see online that one can add tasks directly from the marker bar
- you know, that narrow thing on the left that sometimes has warning
triangles and breakpoints and all. I've begun to use it a l lot when RDi

detects a syntax error, then I see what's going on - pretty cool, IMO.

The tasks entered this way are not written into the source, I see, and
they do show up in the Tasks view, with the ability to mark as complete,

either by checking the checkbox you now see or using the context menu.

Now this is starting to get interesting, I think - so I'm curious about
y'all's experiences with this.

Try it out by right-clicking the marker bar on the left of a source
member - I don't think the iSphere stuff has anything to do with that,
but Thomas can confirm.

Cheers
Vern