Lint View Improvements
This changeset makes a bunch of changes to the Lint Window
in Eclipse:
* First, it changes the view from a flat table into a hierarchical
tree. For any given type of error, there is one top level tree
node, and its children are the remaining occurrences of the same
error.
This makes it much easier to quickly skim through the different
issues without having to scroll; if you see an error you want to
fix, you can expand the node to jump to all the various occurrences.
The top level labels also include a count in the form of "(2 items)"
after the error message so you can get a sense of how many warnings
were found for each type.
* Second, it adds a bunch of new actions to the Lint View toolbar:
expand, collapse, configure (more on that later), settings, and
ignore file and ignore project (ignore global was already there).
It also updates the icons for some of the existing actions; the lint
toolbar action and window should look a bit better now.
* Third, it adds more columns (such as priority and category) to the
lint view, and makes the set of visible columns configurable. You
can click on the Configure toolbar action to bring up a dialog to
show which columns are included, and this selection is persisted
across IDE sessions (and it also persists the column sizes).
Furthermore, instead of separate file, path and line number columns,
there is now a new "Location" column, which is shown by default
instead of the separate file, path and line number columns. This
column displays combined info for all three: the file name, the line
number, the parent folder and the project name. This includes all
the relevant information in a more compact format such that there is
more room for the error message.
* Fourth, the table now supports sorting: you can click on any column
header, and the table will be sorted using that column as a
key. (This is not alphabetical but a logical sort defined for each
column; for line number and priority it's obviously numerical, but
for the default column it continues to be a combination of severity,
priority, issue type etc.)
Change-Id: I42695988780b493ad90aff5aeb5895e0fd8d3998
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