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

Kevin Fishburne kevinfishburne at ...1887...
Mon Sep 21 06:54:22 CEST 2015


On 09/21/2015 12:52 AM, Kevin Fishburne wrote:
> On 09/19/2015 03:40 PM, Lewis Balentine wrote:
>> 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. :)
>> "... 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.
> Just use the window and you can generally avoid any run-ins with the
> farmer or his knife-wielding wife...unless something else entirely is
> going on and I've misunderstood.
>
> In any case, I've attached two images. Pressing Escape for enumeration
> clears the enumeration pop-up. Pressing Escape for syntax help hides the
> debug pane. Maybe Alt-Escape, Alt-Tab or something similar could toggle
> debug pane visibility.
>

Forgot the damned images...sorry.

-- 
Kevin Fishburne
Eight Virtues
www: http://sales.eightvirtues.com
e-mail: sales at ...1887...
phone: (770) 853-6271

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