[Gambas-user] Feature removal suggestion: Pressing Escape hides debug pane

[Lewis Balentine]

"... perhaps the mouse alone to show/hide or otherwise manipulate it."
There should always exist an alternate way to gracefully exit a dialog 
box lest the farmer's wife is hanging about with her carving knife.


On 09/19/2015 05:48 AM, Patrik Karlsson wrote:
> 2015-09-19 7:16 GMT+02:00 Kevin Fishburne <kevinfishburne at ...1887...>:
>
>> When modifying a line of code there are context-sensitive pop-ups for
>> syntax help, code completion and method/property enumeration, which is
>> awesome. However, one type of pop-up requires that you press Escape to
>> clear and the others do not. Being unable to reliably differentiate
>> between pop-up types results in Escape being pressed in error which then
>> causes the debug pane to be hidden. When using the debug pane to jump
>> between search results, accidentally pressing Escape in an attempt to
>> clear the context-sensitive pop-up results in the debug pane, and
>> consequently the search results, being hidden. This significantly
>> interrupts workflow and has been annoying the shit out of me for
>> possibly years.
>>
>> I think the Escape key should be uncoupled from debug pane functionality
>> entirely, forcing the user to use a different key or perhaps the mouse
>> alone to show/hide or otherwise manipulate it. Is anyone else
>> experiencing this or is it just me?
>>
>> --
>> Kevin Fishburne
>> Eight Virtues
>> www: http://sales.eightvirtues.com
>> e-mail: sales at ...1887...
>> phone: (770) 853-6271
>>
>>
> You are not alone. :)
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