Scanning Source Files for Tasks
To scan a directory, and its subdirectories, for source
files with tasks (see the editor
task window documentation for an explanation of how source
files are considered to contain tasks), run the
"Scan Files For Tasks..." action in the Tools menu; it
can also be found in the context menu for tasks in the
Editor Task Window.
This will produce a dialog where you choose which directory
to scan. You can also choose whether or not you want the
scan to be recursive, and if you want tasks to be restricted
to the comment sections in the source files.
When the scan has completed, a new window is opened
which contains the discovered tasks. Note that
- This tasklist is not kept up to date; if you
edit source files in the directory, new tasks will
not automatically appear, removed tasks won't
disappear, etc. This is for performance reasons (although
there's an outstanding issue for this feature to
be enhanced such that if you edit a source file,
its corresponding section in the scanned-list is
made up-to-date).
- The tasklist is not saved somewhere when you exit
the IDE, so if you restart the IDE your scanned
window disappears. There's an issue requesting that
persistence is implemented for this window.
Comments & requests to dev@tasklist.netbeans.org
.
Further information at tasklist.netbeans.org
.