#112 Ordering of services?

[David I.]

In iSQL versions prior to 2.1.8, I thought there was a
way to re-order the services as they appear in the
services menu.

I don't see any way to do that in 2.1.8. Is that
feature gone?

[Markus A. Kobold]

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No it shouldn't be, using the ordering buttons of the
service manager, you should be able to change the order of
the services as they appear in the menu.

If not i will look into it.

[David I.]

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I don't see the "ordering buttons". Using: Tools->Service
Manager I see the following buttons above the service
list:

Change your classpath settings
Detect unregistered services...
New service
Copy service
unmark selected service from being deleted
mark selected service for deletion

There are no other buttons, only the tabbed panel for
service options.

[Markus A. Kobold]

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I know what has happened in lieu having a huge toolbar where the
current buttons lie, I added the support for DnD ordering of the services
so try doing that, I apologize for the inconvience and non-intuitiveness of
the change.

[David I.]

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I see that the DnD works, but I don't like the interface.

I don't get any feedback on exactly where the button will
be dropped while dragging.

I have a long list of services and when I begin a drag
operation, the scroll list jumps to the bottom of the list
and I can't drag an item to the top of the list because
the scrollbar won't move while dragging.

I would be OK with a popup menu and a keybinding to
move a service up or down. The right click menu could
have the keybinding referenced on it.

[Markus A. Kobold]

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OK, I can implement something like that, the list data model
that i made to make DnD support easier also allows me to add
keybindings and such, any suggestions as to an intuitive
key-binding for this ? <ctrl|command>-[UP-Down] ?

I will also see if i can improve upon the DnD support...

also as a side note if you want to do it manually outside of
iSQL you can edit the 'service.cache' file. This is where
the ordering is stored. It is just a delimited list.

[David I.]

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I like <ctrl>-[UP-Down].

Thanks for the info on the manual ordering.

[Markus A. Kobold]

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Update has been posted to CVS tree update will also be available
upon the next release.