1. Re: IDE bugs
Judith,
I agree with Dan that the Toolbox probably isn't the best solution for
placing groups of controls together. Maybe a better way would be to place
the different groups together under TabItems. This is not a new idea, I've
seen it in other IDE's too. If you don't understand what I mean, I could
maybe make a screenshot to show it.
Anyway, thanks for the enormous load of work you, and David Cuny, have put
into this development. I'm sure it will make Euphoria more popular!
Ad Rienks
----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
Van: Dan B Moyer <DANMOYER at PRODIGY.NET>
Aan: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Verzonden: maandag 18 december 2000 4:59
Onderwerp: IDE bugs
> Judith,
>
> Looks like you have put a *lot* of work into your latest version of the
IDE!
> I like the grid very much, and the <ctrl>drag to make copies of a control
is
> *real* nice!!! Congratulations, and thanks!
>
> The new Toolbox will take some getting used to; I liked having *many*
> controls available at a time without having to work through category
choices
> to see them. I know as you add new controls, like the progress bar, that
> you need to do something to provide for their selection without covering
the
> whole screen with them, but I wonder if you couldn't put the tool box
across
> the top like it was previously with the tool kit, with category buttons
like
> you have it now, but with *more* of the controls in each category showing,
> so there'd be less clicking to get to the control one wanted to use? Or,
> maybe just a "show all" button on the tool box, so it could expand to show
> *all* the controls at once until resized back to normal?
>
> Problems:
> 1. The IDE takes 15 seconds to load on my system, and once generated a
> sequence of one error message after another of something like "files not
> associated with any application", dunno what that was all about because it
> was only once; but first time I used it, I ended up with 4 or 5 running
> versions because I didn't realize the first clicks were loading & I kept
> clicking again & again; I suspect this comes at least in part from the
time
> it takes to draw the snap-to grid?
> 2. Under "Options", "Grid", if I select "Type", and try "lines", it
> crashes;
> 3. The TreeView control won't run, because the default styles need to be
> or_all'd (I noticed this under Win32Lib 50, and then re-tested and got the
> same under 53). If this is what you mean in the docu by, "This is done
> purposely in the event the user is aiming the EXW or EW file to a folder
> which uses an
> different version of Win32Lib.", then I would suggest that in the
properties
> dialog you should include some selector buttons, so the user could easily
> specify whether any defaults should be "stand-alone", or "or_all'd"; the
> properties dialog could also use a listbox of styles appropriate to
specific
> controls, so user could add styles by just selecting them from a list.
>
> And at first I thought the default grid spacing was too dense, but after
> playing with it a little, I now think it's just right.
>
> Good work!
>
> Dan
