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

[richard terry]

Thanks, works well, even deposits you back to the line number you were last 
working on.

Great Work.

Richard

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:05:44 pm Benoit Minisini wrote:
> 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,