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
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