[ jEdit-users ] ProjectViewer suggestion regarding Filtered view

[Edward D. <eld...@tr...>]

I have made this suggestion on the SourceForge tracker but I would like 
to explain it here in order to try to get the wonderful ProjectViewer 
programmers to add the feature.

I find the Filters that one can specify in the Filtered view for a 
project to be exceedingly useful for viewing types of project files.
What I find missing is that the Filtered tab breaks down the project 
files into filters, which is excellent, but under which all files of the 
project appear within their filter in the GUI display. Essentially each 
filter folder shows all the files for that filter, ie. the filter 
sub-view is a 'Files' one. I would like the ability. at the project 
level, to specify that filter sub-views can be 'Folders', 'Working 
Files', or 'Compact' sub-views and to be able to change this easily.

Does this make sense to any ProjectViewer programmers or end-users who 
use ProjectViewer ?

I can explain it better by this example. Let's suppose I set a project 
filter for C++ header files ( .h,.hpp ) which I call Header Files. Then 
within my project, using the Filtered tab, I will see below my project a 
'Header Files' folder. When I expand that folder there will be a list of 
all header files in my project. But suppose I want to see that list of 
header files broken up into folders. If I could specify a Folders 
sub-view for the 'Header Files' virtual folder, just like I can if at 
the project level I choose the 'Folders' tab, I should be able to see my 
header files broken down into their folders. Similarly if I wanted to 
see that list of header files broken into compact folders, just like I 
can if at the project level I choose the 'Compact' tab, I should be able 
to see my header files broken down into their compact folders.

The change from the end-users perspective is to simply add the ability 
to choose one of the 4 other sub-views to the Filtered view tab of the 
project's properties. Also useful would be the ability to switch between 
the 4 other sub-views for the Filtered view from the pop-up window for 
the project.

Thanks for listening.