From: Nigel <jav...@mi...> - 2008-12-03 06:02:03
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Although I don't use a Mac, others do, and if it doesn't allow multiple copies of Eclipse then that in itself is good reason to support multiple sessions. I don't think it is much work. I have already created an 'Open Session in New Window' command and it seems to work in principle, but as I expected it will take a little time to change all the calls that currently get the static session from the activator to get it from the window page input instead. Using one instance of Eclipse would also allow plug-ins to, say, allow moving of transactions from one session to another more easily and stuff like that. It just seems better to me to maintain the session in the window page input - it being really more flexible and no more complicated. Also, I looked at DatastoreManager and it has a method called getBriefDescription. The comments say it is used to put in the window title, so that was obviously the idea, but the method is never called, so I would try using that. Nigel -----Original Message----- From: Graham Leggett [mailto:mi...@sh...] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 4:21 AM To: jmo...@li... Cc: jav...@mi...; HERLA Dimitri Subject: Re: [jmoney-devel] Question ... again Johann Gyger wrote: > I wonder whether we should really support multiple sessions at a time. > Dimitri is only talking about multiple sessions if I get him right. So > I wonder whether this could be solved the same way as Eclipse > workspaces work? I still favor to have one session per process (in a > static reference). I regularly open multiple gnucash files, and have to refer to them at the same time. MacOSX generally only lets you run one copy of Eclipse at a time, so there would need to be some way of loading multiple files in at once into the same instance before it could be useful. (Busy looking at moving to JMoney from Gnucash). Regards, Graham -- |