[DrJava] [ drjava-Feature Requests-540323 ] Make capitalized tokens hypertext links

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Feature Requests item #540323, was opened at 2002-04-06 14:50
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Category: User interface
Group: Unknown size
Status: Open
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Eric E. Allen (eallen)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Make capitalized tokens hypertext links

Initial Comment:
A long-range goal could be to make capitalized  
tokens into hypertext links to other source files (or 
perhaps doc comment files for the library classes). 
Resolving the appropriate source file for a token 
could be done whenever the user modifies that token. 
If the source file can't be resolved, the token could 
be colored differently.

Because this strategy works without contextual 
analysis (well, except for keeping track of the 
import and package statements), it should be easy to 
use it for the various tabbed panes. Hypertext links 
would be especially useful with the compiler and 
testing errors.

We could even include "back" and "forward" buttons in 
the toolbar, but I don't want to get too far ahead of 
things yet.

Story: The user clicks on a capitalized token 
referring to a resolvable class. The corresponding 
source file (or the hypertext doc comment file for a 
library class) is brought into the definitions pane.
The user clicks on a link in the newly opened 
document to bring that file into the definitions pane.

The user then modifies a capitalized token so that it 
no longer refers to a valid class. The token is 
immediately colored differently, to alert the user. 
The user tries to click on the modified token, but 
nothing happens.

-- Eric


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