Hello,

the Code Explorer is very powerful, but I'd like to suggest some things:
* add "Expand All" and "Collapse All" functionality to the popup menu.
When I click "Refresh" all items are fully expanded again (Class View).
* add functionality (in context menu) to selectively "hide" files and/or
directories from being listed, i.e. adding full file-/directoryname
to the ignore list instead of going to the menu.
* it would be nice if the "unpinned" windows on the left hand side
would still "indent"/move the editor to the right when showing up.
Often I "watch" both the code explorer and editor simultaneously,
but still don't want the window to be pinned.

Besides this:
* add a horizontal ruler above the editor to show column numbers
* add an "Settings - IDE" option to always make the "Help" window
tab appear at current file position (as it is now) OR as added as
the last (file) window (new)
* add MySQL 5 help file into install package (available from the MySQL site)
* allow a separate "Help" tab for each configured help file, e.g.
tabs showing "Help - php" or "Help - mySQL" etc.
* enhance the core phpEd help topics to cover all "Tools"-"Settings"
* add the "Tools"-"Run instant error analysis" item to the editor's
context menu (top)
* "Tools"-"Run instant error analysis" should also show a message
when *no* errors were found. Since there is no visual indicator
(like "hourglass" mouse cursor), this would help (at least me).
* add a "wizard" item to the editor context menu to add the
current editor file to the "Tools"-"Scripts" menu
* add option to specify the "gutter" width since breakpoints and
bookmarks may overlap line numbers.

That's all for now. In spite of above suggestions I really
like to work with this fine software.

Thanks for a sophisticated tool!

Cheers,
Tobias

Tobias,

Thanks for your feedback and really kind words!


Please take a look at tools->settings->code insight, code explorer, initially view expanded.



I got it, but if you have some libraries to not be shown in the code explorer, just put them out of the project tree (or into a separated project tree), add necessary mappings if you need them to be published properly and add to the list of Code Insight includes (see project properties) if you need them to be parsed for code completion. That's all tricks.
In other words, Code Explorer is always showing files in the project tree


Sorry. I'm not sure I got it right.
Unpinned windows are the windows that appears without shifting anything (e.g. they overlap everything underneath).
If you do not like code explorer when it overlaps editor on the leftmost positions, just try to have it on the right.


Then definitely you need to "pin" it


but it can't be pinned and unpinned simultaneously
Seriously, shifting all the inner windows is bad idea because of peroformance.


I tought linenumber:position in the status bar is sufficient. Not?



"new"? New windows are always appearing on the right to the the current file, not as the last...


You can do it yourself. We can't because of MySQL license. It does not allow us to do it.


perhaps, a good idea. But how often are you looking at two or more manuals simulaneously?
To me it looks like having "Favorites" and "History" for fast navigation is sufficient. Right?


I agreed, customization is a must for all the GUI parts and editor popup is not an exeption. Be ensured we're working in this direction



mm, what do you mean?


I think it's better to have auto-adjustable width, but maybe a setting is good too.

Hello,
thanks a lot for answering/commenting all my suggestions, appreciated.


Thanks, I plainly overlooked those options.


Well, I have "mirrored" a website locally and wouldn't like to move anything,
anywhere.
What I actually was aiming at: provide a fast means to simply put a
file or directory into the "Hide files"/"Hide directories" entries of the
project settings instead of me having to open the project dialog and copy/pasting
names manually.


Hmm... yes, we both are talking about the "shifting" (appearing) windows.
Probably it's just a wild thing, but if e.g. the Explorer - unpinned - opens up,
it should "temporarily" behave like being "pinned" and show the editor and
_not_ overlap. Sounds like a "mixture". Just an idea only making sense
to myself *g*. I'll open it on the right border for the time being.


I don't see any performance issues on my slow laptop and as
I explained above, the editor would only be "shifted" by a
single "unpinned" window when appearing.


Nope, it's not, almost can't live without it. I somehow always
look out for this mystic 80-characters right-margin...


Right, that's my point: make it optional to open the "Help" tabs as the last ones.
It's sort of a habit: by default the "buttons" for the help windows are on
the right, too, and my brain always searches for the _last_ tab to be
the "Help" tab....
Jeez.. I must sound pretty silly writing this...


Oh, I fully understand that. Already installed that myself.


It's also just to distinguish the tab itself when it has at least a real
"topic" as well and actually realize which one it is since I'm usually
working with a lot of tabs most of the time.


Well, there is no intuitive way of putting something into the "Tools|Scripts"
submenu, it's plain empty... haven't yet found a way for this.


My screen resolution is normal (no large fonts), but the last line number
digit does get overlapped, the automatic way should add 4 pixels then.

I'm always happy to either provide and receive feedback about
products, this time especially since we both work with Delphi and
the tool is editing/debugging related, right?

Thanks again,
Tobias