Java editor...

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Java editor...

- I think opening the Java file with the same name as the Agent, rather than just the first one, could possibly be useful. My fear with that is that DDE "hides" tabs when too many are open, just like Eclipse does, so opening two tabs per Agent, if one is editing many different things increases the chances that tabs will "disappear".

- Regardless, if this is done, it should be a preference. I may normally come across as dictating to the world, but that is not actually how I feel personally, and I would prefer it remain the way it is than force my desires on everyone else, unless some previously established mechanism indicates enough are interested in the change to justify permenance. Even if that justification is present I always favor preference over permenance, with a change to the default behaviour, because that lets the developer decide how they want their IDE to function. What one developer considers indespensable, another will consider intolerable. That's how we are. (grin)

- I'm sorry to hear the initial attempt to put this project stuff on the Application panel failed. It does explain why the current process seems so rough cut ... it was a fallback, and could have been done on short time after the other failed. I appreciate knowing this is the case rather than scratch my head at how it is now.

- On "tab hiding", with R-prior I would often have fifteen or more edit tabs open. They would "scrunch" together, becoming increasingly narrow, but that was fine with me because A) the two or three chars visible generally identified them well enough and B) a hover would show the entire tab name. I could just as easily tab to the first file opened as the seventeenth. DDE's "tab hiding" (which comes from Eclipse, one of the very few things I dislike about that IDE) means I constantly hit the "hide limit", so I don't know what I do and don't have open any longer, or I'm forced to close things I'd prefer to have open in order to see them all. This is less desirable than "scrunched" tabs, for me personally, because a single glance no longer tells me what's open, what's unsaved, etc, etc. If this "tab hiding" were configurable to "scrunch", then I could care less how many tabs get opened when a Java Agent is edited, because the "project tab", which I am considerably less likely to want to edit, won't push other "code tabs" off the visible list. Does this make sense?

- It doesn't matter what Java Agent I open, it's just really slow. I just opened one on a remote server and it took over 180 seconds to show the "project tab". This slowness spans databases and Agents. As such any Agent I sent could be considered a "problem Agent".

Thanks for your time...

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