Re: ActionListener

From:
Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.spamfilter@virtualinfinity.net>
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Date:
Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:40:06 -0700
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On 8/14/2010 1:59 PM, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

On 14-08-2010 16:39, Roedy Green wrote:

On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:11:56 -0700, Daniel Pitts
<newsgroup.spamfilter@virtualinfinity.net> wrote, quoted or indirectly
quoted someone who said :

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/ide.html

I love this feature :-) One thing I'd like to point out, and its a
minor point for many people, but it *suggests* imports for you.


Yes!

The other nice things my IDE, IntelliJ does is:

1. sort the imports.

2. collapse individual class imports to package.* imports if there are
more than N classes where N is configurable.

3. remove unused imports. I have to be careful with this. I must
never tidy imports unless I have a clean compile or it can think
imports are not used. If there any many duplicates e.g. List, it can
take time putting them back again.

The one thing I would like it to do is handle all the changes if I do
a static import, perhaps working from a list of items I usually like
to handle statically, like System.out and System.err.


#1 and #3 are standard IDE features today.

#2 is an absolutely horrible idea.

Arne

#2 is primarily used for awt/swing packages, in my experience. It does
*work*, but it causes problems for java.awt.List colliding with
java.util.List from time to time.

Personally, I think modern IDE's are still working at the wrong level.
A software creator (engineer, architect, programmer, what-ever) should
no longer work at the "text-source" level, but at the abstract concept
level. When you do that, imports become irrelevant (just use the FQN),
and refactoring becomes easier to manage.

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