Re: "project and editor" window configuration
Re: "project and editor" window configuration
- Subject: Re: "project and editor" window configuration
- From: Izidor Jerebic <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:23:03 +0100
Well, I don't think we understand each other...
I want one editor window per open project, not one editor for all
projects. So if I have two projects open, I want two editor windows.
Right now I can only get one editor window for everything. And again,
if I click on Project button, right now I will not get the project of
the file which is currently edited, but the project which was the first
open (or something like that, I did not investigate further). So the
functionality is misleading at best...
About the history - yes, one gets list of parent groups, but that is
too much, I want less :-) There is too much scrolling... I need just
the list of files, similar to the one in popups, but accessible with
one mouse click. That's all I need in a drawer - current working set of
files, so I can move among them quickly. If I need to search for some
other file, which I have not worked with yet, I go to the main project
window and use the wonderful filter view (group/detail view as
officially called) - I really like it.
About popups: any popup is slow to work with - it is the slowest GUI
element. Besides that, another problem with history popup is that when
its menu pops up at the top of the screen and current file is at the
end of the list, popup's menu is not fully visible and needs to be
scrolled (which is slow, because it is dictated by autoscroll speed of
menus!) to see all files in it - really disturbing and happens a lot.
I hope I made myself clear this time. If I am wrong, please correct me,
but I think that Xcode does not offer what I want, yet :-)
izidor
On Nov 13, 2003, at 10:34 PM, Scott Tooker wrote:
Actually you can already do these things. Open up the toolbar in an
editor window and there are two toolbar items: Editing Mode and
Groups.
Clicking on Editing Mode will change things so all new editors will
appear in that window.
Clicking on the Groups toolbar item will show a drawer of either all
the files in the parent group to the selected file double-clicked or
the selected set of groups and files double-clicked on in the
groups/detail views.
Scott
On Nov 13, 2003, at 9:13 AM, Izidor Jerebic wrote:
Hello!
I have a suggestion for the editor window setup. As I understand,
currently there are only two options - single editor window for all
files of all projects and one window for each file.
It would be great if one could have an option of single editor window
per project. This would enable all project-related activities (search
etc.) in main project window, and editing in one other window, as big
as possible, since these two kinds of activities are quite separate.
I have not tested much (building and other actions), but clicking on
a "Project" button in editor window takes me not to the project which
currently edited file belongs to, but to the project this editor
window started with, so it is really not very useful. And Groups
drawer is quite cluttered when you work with more than one project at
a time (e.g. application and several frameworks).
And it would be really great if history of open files would be
accessible as a drawer or palette or something else responding to a
single click, since popups are really _s_l_o_w_ way of navigating
through file lists (press, drag, release, ugh!!!). Is there really no
interest in speedy access to current working set of files?
These are no show-stopper things, but it is a shame that such small
defects would prevent this tool to be really superb after all that
work you already did.
izidor
_______________________________________________
xcode-users mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives:
http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/xcode-users
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
_______________________________________________
xcode-users mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/xcode-users
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.