That makes two of us
I often miss this would-be feature of ECB :)
--
Eugene Gavrilov,
Software Engineer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Speakmon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 2:46 AM
Subject: adding access info to ECB
> I found myself wishing yesterday for ECB to tell me what kind of methods I
> had in my class - is it private, protected, public, final, abstract, what?
> It would be cool if ECB's method list gave me this information in addition
> to the method signature.
>
> I thought it out to the point where it would work a bit like UML. If I
> have the following method signatures:
>
> public void publicMethod(String x) {}
> protected int protectedMethod(String y) {}
> private boolean privateMethod(String z) {}
> public abstract Object abstractMethod(String aa) {}
>
> then ECB could display those like this:
>
> +publicMethod (String) : void
> #protectedMethod (String) : int
> -privateMethod (String) : boolean
> <I>+abstractMethod(String) : Object</I>
>
> and so on and so forth. Maybe even mark abstract classes in the class list
> with the italic face, etc.? :)
>
> In my emacs lisp ignorance, I say this seems like a rather easy change to
> make. Does anybody else think this is a good idea, and does it fit in with
> what ECB tries to do?
>
> P.S. One could also make this work with C++ and C and whatever other
> languages ECB intends to support, but the Java one is the one that
> interests me the most right now.
>
> -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
> Benjamin A. Speakmon
> Software Engineer, Web Products Division
> TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.
>
>
