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Is there a way to use another editor in xojo besides the one that is built in?

I like GUI based editors. For writing a paper MS Word is hard to beat.

I write a lot of TCL and Perl at work and find GVIM hard to beat.

So I think I know the answer to my GVIM question. So the furstrations I am experiencing in Xojo are:

  • Split window - I would like to look at several things at once: code for the event, a method, some constants . . .
  • ctrl-c ctrl-v rarely seem to work on Windows XP (extra mouse clicks) ( am using latest build)
  • regular expressions
  • I also struggle with the fact that everything I want to do involves a mouse click. For instance: I want to crate 15 copies of a button and only change the label. In GVIM (or emacs) I just replicate the lines for the first instance 15 times. Then search for the string I want to change.

Here is another way to think about it. With web page authoring tools I have seen a source view. I can move things around in the GUI, or change things around in the source view. I get the best of both.

2

Sorry, that’s not how Xojo works.

3

You can open several windows on the same project for different views, and you can find by regex, if that helps you.

4

You’re trying to use Xojo like GVIM. Don’t do that. I usually tell people to stop trying to use Xojo like because it will only frustrate you.

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[quote=53265:@Glenn Boyer]ctrl-c ctrl-v rarely seem to work on Windows XP (extra mouse clicks) ( am using latest build)
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Don’t feel bad, they don’t work on OSX either

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Bob: Your point is valid. So let me ask my question this way: How do you resolve (or eliminate) the need to look at multiple portions of your code at once?

Kem: Are you referring to the tabs feature (which was off by default)

Can I tear off windows or tabs? If I can have multiple tabs, can I view multiple tabs at once?

Is it possible to see the library and Inspector at the same time?

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Yes. Go to Preferences and select “Show Library and Inspector As floating palettes”.

To see multiple views of your code in multiple windows, select File->New Workspace. Tabs are also quite useful, but you cannot tear them off into their own window.

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Multiple Windows if I need to. But, as with most tools you just get used to the limitations. I rarely need to have multiple windows open.