It would be great to have a brief description of the property or method you have scrolled to in the object property lister. While the need for this functionality may be negated by more experienced users, I find myself selecting a property or method, then going to the help file over and over. An example of not having the vaguest idea what something did was in the segmented control where “SegmentedControl.items.Operator_Subscript” appeared in the list.To this point in time I had never heard of the Operator_Subscript
property. Although this is not really a wish list item but more of an IDE bug. I am pretty sure that there is a good reason that Xojo Inc can’t implement this, but why do you need to click on selected code to make the cut,paste and copy items available?
My wishes:
<https://xojo.com/issue/28875>
<https://xojo.com/issue/33409>
<https://xojo.com/issue/33413>
And native support for a SourceList.
My Wish:
Case #31338
(Fix: Use a custom segmentedcontrol on OS X just like you (Xojo) do on Windows.)
Other wishes:
- Generics
- Better Auto-complete. (Look at Xamarin)
- Better project browser. (Other IDE’s, for example, you can drop any type of file into the project browser and call it in code.)
- Native GIT support. (Would be a blessing for open source projects. You still need a license to build, FYI.)
- Global Bug Check button. (Why Xojo, Why?)
- Anonymus forum. (Why is Xojo the only programming forum that requires a real-names policy?)
I want Xojo to keep it’s uniqueness while wanting it to be as powerful or more powerful than other IDEs.
I can’t see feedback.
But the thing that currently gets me really annoyed is when I have several tabs open, and while Im in one tab, I select an object , method or property, and instead of using the current tab, it switches me back to a previous tab and replaces the contents.
Still wish I had a popover in debug mode to show the current value of a variable. (If I scroll the variable panes so I can see something beginning with W, and then step, the variable pane scrolls back to the As again…
Break on variable = value
Break on variable changed
Watches so that I can see global and local variables that I need to see without drilling backwards and forwards through object hierarchy.
Maybe I missed it but I haven’t spotted a keyboard ‘step’ option. Right now I have to keep clicking a toolbar icon.
(And these may have been addressed: Im using 2013 edition: 2014 is no use to me as it doesn’t compile for OS X 10.6)
[quote=138476:@Jeff Tullin]Iaybe I missed it but I haven’t spotted a keyboard ‘step’ option. Right now I have to keep clicking a toolbar icon.
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Its there and has been since day 1
Look in the Project Menu > Step and there’s the short cuts
It’s also mentioned in the Users Guide
My wife will tell you I’m the same with my car keys…
I can see them now.
Why I didn’t go into the sub menu , I have no idea. I scanned the Project menu and didn’t see Step over listed, so started clicking the icon and kept doing it because it worked.
Shift Apple and O together???
OK… then I’ll scope creep.
I was expecting the shortcut be a one-key option like a function key.
[quote=138476:@Jeff Tullin]I can’t see feedback.
But the thing that currently gets me really annoyed is when I have several tabs open, and while Im in one tab, I select an object , method or property, and instead of using the current tab, it switches me back to a previous tab and replaces the contents. [/quote]
I posted about this issue in April. (Note: Video doesn’t exist anymore) Of course, no one from Xojo responded. That “feature” is here to stay. Get used to “features” not getting fixed for a number of years.
Are the IDE bugs/problems so hard to fix:
<https://xojo.com/issue/29897>
<https://xojo.com/issue/29555>
I don’t like the icons, but I find them preferable to the 3 finger combinations…very taxing.
Yep, just like any other development tool. Some things that annoyed me in VB6 for years, never got fixed.
[quote=138489:@Jeff Tullin]My wife will tell you I’m the same with my car keys…
I can see them now.
Why I didn’t go into the sub menu , I have no idea. I scanned the Project menu and didn’t see Step over listed, so started clicking the icon and kept doing it because it worked.
Shift Apple and O together???
OK… then I’ll scope creep.
I was expecting the shortcut be a one-key option like a function key.[/quote]
SpaceBar
If you’re running Mac OS you can change the key combos with System Preferences
On Windows most of the time, but I’ll keep that in mind. Thanks.
my biggest wish today is Retina support.
But Xojo is the most noticeable of the bunch
You’ll be the first to know when I can’t get my job done.
Amen! I can name at least 3 annoying bugs/quirks with VB6 that messed with my production that MS never fixed and never will, obviously. At least with Xojo issues will probably (eventually?) get fixed.
My wish is I wouldn’t have to restart Xojo constantly just to be able to use it. For some reason at some point it just slows down and typing becomes a nightmare.
Windows or Mac? I used to have that problem before 2014r2.1, but works great on Windows now.
Mac.