[Gambas-user] Comment on split editor 2.99 (build 1164)

[Robert Rowe]

Actually Richard is the one that requested it, I just implemented it. I 
believe that the misunderstanding was due to the word "split". I think 
that he is asking for "Tile Horizontal" and Tile Vertical". These are 
old MDI layout styles that were popular on Windows. Everything seems to 
be moving away from this layout style to the more modern Tab Strip 
layout (which is what Gambas uses, VB.Net does too). The confusion came 
from a VB feature. Each editor can be split horizontally in VB with both 
split editors sharing the same file. The gambas feature does this but it 
also has vertical splitting too. Unless I'm missing something, 
implementing "Tile Horizontal" and Tile Vertical" in the workspace 
component would be a big job. These do come in handy sometimes though.

Robert Rowe

Benoit Minisini wrote:
> On jeudi 27 mars 2008, richard terry wrote:
>   
>> Again, used this build for a number of hours tonight, and found some
>> occasions where having this fully functional (even in its limited form)
>> would have been really useful, even in its limited form I found it a big
>> improvement over a single pane.
>>
>> Being able to put one routine above, and another below, and cut./paste and
>> shift code around is really good.
>>
>> At the moment however, the two panes are not independant. ie if you cut,
>> paste or hit the enter key to create blank line, it shuffles the code in
>> the top pane as well, which in a true split it shouldn't.
>>
>> IMHO this feature reall2 separate files in each pane. With all the other
>> recent changes in the editor such as code folding, this would really speed
>> up ones learning/developing.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Richard T
>>
>>     
>
> Please always use the latest trunk (svn update) as much as possible, otherwise 
> your comments may become useless.
>
> For the panes, I can't do anything at the moment... The guy who wanted it this 
> way certainly had a good reason. Personally, I have never used splitted panes 
> at all.
>
> Regards,
>
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