EU Designer - request and suggestion
Brian,
I love EU Designer, but I have a couple of simple ideas. Hopefully, they're
not also simple-minded.
First, it would be really, really, really helpful if you would have a button
or something so that you could add code outside of the controls. What I
would like to see specifically is a button/menu that calls up the code
editor, and allows you to type in all the code you want to go in after
win32lib.ew and before the constant declaration for the main form. I use
this area to add additional include files, and I'd love to be able to do
this from within EUD. It also seems fairly trivial.
Related to that, I personally would like to see the window constant
declaration with its assorted controls saved to a separate file, and then
added to the main program by use of an include. I have a few reasons to
believe this is a better way to do it. Here they are, and please correct me
if I'm not thinking clearly:
1) It treats the window and controls more like resources for the program.
That way if you want to change just the window and controls, you can include
a different file, and not have to copy your program logic.
2) Similarly, if you want to re-use your main window and controls in several
different projects, it becomes a matter of just adding them as includes to
the main program.
3) It seems like it would make it easier to add a button/something to EUD to
allow use of controls/windows previously created in EUD to different
projects, which seems desirable to me.
4) It makes the program more modularized.
I know EUD isn't a true IDE - yet - and maybe these couple changes are
outside the scope of what you're wanting to do, but I think there might be
some merit to them. If anyone disagrees (or agrees), I'd love to know why.
Sherm
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