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| Tasks view</H1> |
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| The Tasks view displays the following information:</P> |
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| System-generated errors, warnings, or information associated with a resource. |
| These are typically produced by builders. For example, if you save a Java source |
| file that contains syntax errors, the errors will automatically be logged in |
| this view.</LI> |
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| Tasks that you add manually. You can associate a task with a resource in the |
| Workbench, but this is not required.</LI> |
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| <p><img src="../images/Image243_tasks_view.gif" alt="Picture of the Tasks view with two dummy tasks added to it." border="0" width="502" height="138"></p> |
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| By default, the Tasks view is included in the Resources perspective. To add it |
| to the current perspective, click <b>Window > Show View > Other > Basic > |
| Tasks</b>.</p> |
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| By default, the Tasks view is shown when a new compiler error or warning is generated. To remove this feature, |
| click <b>Window > Preferences > Workbench</b> and deselect <b>Show Tasks view when build has errors or |
| warnings</b>.</p> |
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| The following icons are used by the Tasks view:</p> |
| <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" summary="Icon table"> |
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| <th valign="top" align="center">Icon</th> |
| <th valign="top" align="left">Description</th> |
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| <td valign="top" align="center"><img src="../images/ref-20.gif" alt=" Information icon" border="0" width="16" height="16"></td> |
| <td valign="top" align="left"> |
| Information </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top" align="center"><img src="../images/ref-22.gif" alt="Warning icon" border="0" width="30" height="18"></td> |
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| Warning </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top" align="center"><img src="../images/ref-24.gif" alt="Error icon" border="0" width="30" height="18"></td> |
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| Error </td> |
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| <td><img src="../images/ref-19.gif" alt="Task icon" border="0" width="30" height="18"></td> |
| <td>Task (normal priority)</td> |
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| <td valign="top" align="center"><img src="../images/ref-21.gif" alt=" High priority task item" border="0" width="16" height="16"></td> |
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| High priority task </td> |
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| <td valign="top" align="center"><img src="../images/ref-23.gif" alt=" Low priority task icon" border="0" width="16" height="16"></td> |
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| Low priority task |
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| <td valign="top" align="center"><img src="../images/ref-25.gif" alt="Completed task icon" border="0" width="16" height="16"></td> |
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| Completed task |
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| The first column indicates whether the line item is a task or a compiler generated error, warning or info.</p> |
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| The second column indicates whether the task |
| is completed. Completed tasks are flagged with a check mark, which you add |
| manually.</p> |
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| The third column indicates whether the task |
| is high, normal, or low priority. </p> |
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| The Description column contains a description of the line item. |
| You can edit the description of user-defined tasks by selecting <b>Properties</b> from the context menu.</P> |
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| The Resource and In Folder columns provide the name and location of the resource |
| associated with each line item.</P> |
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| The Location column indicates the line number of the line item within its associated resource.</P> |
| <h2>Toolbar</h2> |
| <p>The toolbar of the Tasks view includes the following buttons.</p> |
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| <dt>New task</dt> |
| <dd>Manually add a "to do" item to the Tasks view.</dd> |
| <dt>Delete</dt> |
| <dd>Delete the selected line item.</dd> |
| <dt>Filter</dt> |
| <dd>Filter the view according to the type of item.</dd> |
| </dl> |
| <h2>Menus</h2> |
| <p>Click the icon at the left end of the view's title bar to open a menu of items |
| generic to all views. Click the black upside-down triangle icon to open a menu of items |
| specific to the Tasks view. Right-click inside the view to open a context menu. </p> |
| <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelt.gif" alt="Related tasks" width="159" height="27"><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-77.htm">Adding line items in the Tasks view</a> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-77b.htm"><br>Associating a task with a resource</a> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-78.htm"><br>Deleting tasks</a> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-79.htm"><br>Filtering the task view</a></p> |
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