[Gambas-user] Improving the utility of IDE work flow.

[Benoit Minisini]

On mercredi 5 mars 2008, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> On mercredi 5 mars 2008, richard terry wrote:
> > As part of my on-going experience with using the editor extensively this
> > is another observation for a small improvement in usability.
> >
> > As a prelude I'll make this comment so you know I'm not just talking
> > through my hat.
> >
> > I worked for a number of years (admittedly a number of years ago) writing
> > vb medical records projects - eg pathology ordering, prescriptions,
> > diabetes stuff, plus a contacts database for our local GP organisation
> > and an entire vb medical record project of my own, and made many
> > observations re utility of programs over the years.
> >
> > I've been paid quite a bit over a number of years to analyse the
> > usability of medical records programs, and in the last couple of years
> > was involved with a comparison of four major commercial offerings (where
> > I was paid both as part of a large group, and separately as an
> > independant consultant , to evaluate utility of programs to used in after
> > hours, and aged care residential facilities in Newcastle)
> >
> > As part of my independant review, I ran these 4 programs,  and my own
> > (which is optimised for maximal workflow with minimal keypresses)
> > simultaneoulsy side by side in a virtual machine, and kept track of their
> > work flow, and just how many mouse events, key presses etc, it took to do
> > a similar task in each one.
> >
> > For prescriptions eg one program (Yes - it was mine) could take as little
> > as 2-3 key presses to generate an entire script - consisting of
> > drug/generic/quantities/repeats/dosages/indications/instructions, versus
> > the usual number of events (up to about 17 or more) generated by the
> > commercial programs. Over a day, in my environment, this adds up to many
> > many thousands of extra mouse or keyboard events.
> >
> > So with reference to Gambas IDE, setting it up so as to allow the user
> > flexibilty with the minimal number of keypresses and easiest navigation
> > is of great interest to me.
> >
> > Given that when one is programming intensively, and has say finished for
> > the moment, or closes gambas to re-open again for some reason, it would
> > be nice to have gambas open the project to its last used state, which in
> > my hands here, it dosnt seem to do (1138 version)
> >
> > My project now has around 70 modules and forms, and the data directory
> > has some 15 subdirectories.
> >
> > As once one's gui is fairly stable one dosn't really want to be
> > continually re-presented with the gui form at bootup, but with the last
> > code window one was working on, I think it would be nice have an option
> > in
> > Tools>Preferences>Editor
> >
> >  like 'Reload last used class' at bootup.
>
> This is a good idea. I note it in the TODO file.
>
> Regards,

I done it in the last subversion commit. But there is no configuration option 
for disabling it at the moment. I will do it if people claim they don't like 
that behaviour.

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini