Editor feedback
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 7:25 pm
As a new PB user, I've found the 3.94 editor largely easy to use. However, I've found a couple of things that could use a little tweaking.
Subjective:
For me, I could completely forego the dragging feature. An option to disable this might be nice.
The mouse is a little too sensitive to movement, especially at the top of the screen. Requiring a little more movement beofre scrolling might be a good idea. I've inadvertantly wound up selecting 10,000 lines of code in a heartbeat. A slight delay before maximum scroll speed would also prevent this.
Not subjective:
Working with a larger program (30,000 lines/10,000 lines of actual code/about 350 proceidrures) I find the Procedure explorer not all that useful. An option to display the procedures alpha-wise would help. I can often remember the name of the routine but not exactly where it is. Being able to completely hide it would also be nice when working with longer lines of code.
A block indent/outdent feature would be very handy as well when porting code.
The single search and replace needs to remember what it replaced and skip beyond. If I replace RC_ with #RC_ without using replace all, it reselects the RC_ portion that I just replaced with #RC_ and makes it ##RC_
Just my two cents.
Cheers, Jon
Subjective:
For me, I could completely forego the dragging feature. An option to disable this might be nice.
The mouse is a little too sensitive to movement, especially at the top of the screen. Requiring a little more movement beofre scrolling might be a good idea. I've inadvertantly wound up selecting 10,000 lines of code in a heartbeat. A slight delay before maximum scroll speed would also prevent this.
Not subjective:
Working with a larger program (30,000 lines/10,000 lines of actual code/about 350 proceidrures) I find the Procedure explorer not all that useful. An option to display the procedures alpha-wise would help. I can often remember the name of the routine but not exactly where it is. Being able to completely hide it would also be nice when working with longer lines of code.
A block indent/outdent feature would be very handy as well when porting code.
The single search and replace needs to remember what it replaced and skip beyond. If I replace RC_ with #RC_ without using replace all, it reselects the RC_ portion that I just replaced with #RC_ and makes it ##RC_
Just my two cents.
Cheers, Jon