Wishlist for IDE

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raumi75
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Re: Wishlist for IDE

Post by raumi75 »

Changing the order of many controls can take very long, in the ide.

I prefer copy / pasting the parts of the code, that I want to move.

The control order window could use some improvements in version 3.1.

I have some ideas:
* Currently, the window cannot be resized. Making it resizeable would be a big help.

* To give you a visual feedback, which control you are moving, it would be helpful, if the actual control in the form window would be highlighted.

* Click on a control in the form window to select the corresponding entry in the control order window.

* Drag and Drop support for quick moving would be very nice.

* I am not the first to wish this: select and move multiple controls at the same time

I don't know, how hard it is to implement, but I think this would make a big improvement in usability of the ide.

Yours

Raumi
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Re: Wishlist for IDE

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raumi75 wrote:Changing the order of many controls can take very long, in the ide.
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Thanks for your suggestions.
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Roberto


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Re: Wishlist for IDE

Post by melliott42 »

Yes please add the ability to select multiple controls at once in the IDE.

It would also be nice if we could use the Shift-<Arrow> key to move\nudge a control around. This is standard in most IDE's at this point.

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Wishlist for IDE

Post by Pablo César »

Multi selectable controls are useful to redefine common properties in global way as:

-Row or Col
-Width
-Height
-BackColor
-Font name
-Font size
-Font color
-Bold, Italic, underline

This could be selectable by ListBox multiselectable.

Another useful point would be to create templates in individual file name according each control containing a basic properties as mentioned above. This module would contain the option to copy, edit, delete templates. I think it's easy to implement and useful.

In View of Code of Form, would be created a button for "select all text" for copy. This is useful when form is to big for selecting.
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Re: Wishlist for IDE

Post by Rathinagiri »

Nice ideas Pablo.

We can go for auto layout also (like in Android.) Each control we place might be arranged or aligned automatically like horizontal/vertical/grid with the predefined offset.
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