User Requested Enhanced IDE - Simplified Version
To all IDE users:
Several people have asked that IDE be returned to a simplier state. While I
will not do that I am agreeable to maintaining two versions where one strips
most of the bells and whistles away.
What has been recommended:
1 - remove Code Editor. User creates and maintains coding files with editor
of choice and saves data before generating an exw. IDE does not open or
branch to that editor except perhaps via Menu Launcher. User inputs in IDE
somewhere the coding file path and name. The generated exw is a combination
of createEx statements from IDE and the coding file. File may be "included"
in generated exw or read and statements copied to generated exw. An
alternative suggestion was to generate only the createEx and related
statements and display them in an IDE MleText. User then copies and pastes
into his coding file. No exw file is created by IDE at all.
2 - remove Project View
3 - when drawing controls in Form Design do so without attributes from
Property such as color, fonts, bitmaps, icons etc
4 - remove Properties not applicable to createEx and related statements such
as Cursor At and the Normal/Minimize/Maximize param associated with WinMain.
5 - Systray editor displays sample required statements but does not generate
coding in the exw for them but user may copy and paste where desired (rather
like Roland Stowasser's Message Box Editor.)
6 - remove MenuItem Manage Include Statements
7 - remove from configurations the tab "describe how major windows open" and
always reopen IDE and major windows in the state it was closed and with the
last project opened and/or saved.
8 - remove Tool Box Help button and screens
9 - look into creating Simplified IDE using percentage method instead of
hard coded pixels so those people with large resolutions can use IDE without
a magnifying glass.
10 - look into using percentage method in generated exw.
Comments/suggestions?
--judith
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