[Gambas-user] Control Backgroung/Foreground colour

[John Leake]

> The "delete" key is the shortcut for deleting the control. Use the 
> "backspace" key for voiding the property.
Sorry guys this is inconsistent and unintuitive and will drive newbies
away for sure.

Where does it tell the user that this is so. If you double click the
text property it is highlighted and when you press delete the text is
deleted not the control.

If a user wants to delete the control they select the control (has the
focus, it is their last action and when they press delete then it
deletes the control).

If a user selects a control to access its properties and then double
clicks the property (the highlight gives then the visual feedback that
the highlighted text is going to receive the delete) but instead the
control vanishes.

Please, please this is not a criticism. I am a newbie to Gambas IDE. I
am gifted with newbie insight and will not be corrupted by
idiosyncrasies like this. You guys have been working with this for so
long you cannot see the problems that newbies will face.  It has become
second nature to you.

I will guarantee that all newbies would feel this way.

So what are we to do ?

I think you have climbed to great heights of achievement and I like the
overall architecture but I will not accept your response to this
fundamental point of usability and what's more I could not live with it.

If you are happy to guide me along as you have so far (and I thank you
for all of that) I am happy to find bugs in your code in return.  If you
do not accept my input as being a bug then that is your right and I am
fine with that.

I am in the process of importing the repo into git so that I can work
independently and you are welcome to clone it and explore what I have done.

Still friends ?

Best regards,

John Leake