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

[richard terry]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:42:19 pm Robert Rowe wrote:
I think it is a great feature - what's the point of having files on two 
different tabs when you want to be able to see both at the same time. - yet 
another example of making life harder

I don't think the world is moving away from splits - take a look at any of the 
linux editor programs or file managers .

The split feature (which Rob implemented) is very useful even in its embryonic 
form and in my opinion a necessary improvement.

Regards

Richard

> 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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