Re: "project and editor" window configuration
Re: "project and editor" window configuration
- Subject: Re: "project and editor" window configuration
- From: Scott Tooker <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:38:49 -0800
The best thing you can do is file bugs on both these issues.
Scott
On Nov 13, 2003, at 2:23 PM, Izidor Jerebic wrote:
> 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
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