Boot Dash: flexible and configurable filters

[2019-05-10]

There's not much one can do to manage the projects shown in Boot Dash:
a) the three hard coded (an not very intuitive) entries in the "Filters" menu
b) the unexpected checkbox in Run Configurations (at least for me, currently not working)

In a) I'd expect to be able to at least select projects not to be shown, or even the possibility to define expressions to match project names.
As for b), that may be a nice-to-have if you fiddle with the Run Configuration -- but certainly not the place where I'd look for it, especially for projects that are not supposed to be run at all (see #605 for a similar sentiment).

[martinlippert]

The filter to not show projects without a main method is done (as part of #605). @BoykoAlex will work on additional improvements here, including a re-designed filters dialog for the boot dashboard and a regular-expression way to filter random projects from the boot dashboard that match that expression. The expression-based setting will also be included in the filters dialog directly in the boot dashboard.

[BoykoAlex]

This work is completed with 5a4eea4

[martinlippert]

@BoykoAlex The new filters dialog looks good to me in general, but I would like to get a few little improvements into it... :-) (and therefore re-opening this):

• reduce the default size of the dialog, probably we should choose the same size as the filters dialog from the package explorer
• add a checkbox to enable the regex-match filter (like in the package explorer)
• change the regex pattern to hide projects that match the regex, not "show only projects that match"
• add "select all" and "deselect all" buttons
• remove the title section saying "select filters" from the dialog and have a window title instead
• put the filters menu item in the view dropdown menu into its own "section", surrounded by separators (after live data connections, before (Re)start items).

[BoykoAlex]

@martinlippert Here it is:

Will push this is within an hour unless i see more comments :-)

[BoykoAlex]

Fixed with 9cc82fd