IDE Requests
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 7:10 pm
So, as you probably all know, the Kickstarter was a success and thus I thought it would be cool to list a couple of feature requests I have for the IDE for the next gen engine, these are a few things I think wouldn't be too hard to implement into the IDE and whilst not completely needed, I think they would be nice additions to the IDE:
1) Could we possibly have some project management features integrated into the IDE? One thing I definitely like about Xcode and Visual Studio (Blasphemy I know) is the solution feature and whilst I know you can make a plugin, of which I am doing so, it would just be awesome to have it integrated instead of having to go through File > Open for each stack in a big project, which if you're OCD like me, means you tend to have them in their own folders, is kinda tiresome.
2) A property or function which states whether or not a stack has been modified or not. I know the IDE as is does something to discern modified stacks from unmodified but the code behind the IDE scares me, this kind of ties into number 1 for me, because of the plugin I am working on.
3) A shortcut key like Ctrl+Shift+B to build a stack into a standalone, it's a shortcut key I really miss when I've spent a lot of time in Visual Studio. Well more shortcut keys in general for the IDE.
I also think this would be a cool thread for other people to drop down their own requests for the IDE, also I would just like to remind you all that we do now have a sub-reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/livecode, so feel free to drop by so we can make memes out of LiveCode. XD
1) Could we possibly have some project management features integrated into the IDE? One thing I definitely like about Xcode and Visual Studio (Blasphemy I know) is the solution feature and whilst I know you can make a plugin, of which I am doing so, it would just be awesome to have it integrated instead of having to go through File > Open for each stack in a big project, which if you're OCD like me, means you tend to have them in their own folders, is kinda tiresome.
2) A property or function which states whether or not a stack has been modified or not. I know the IDE as is does something to discern modified stacks from unmodified but the code behind the IDE scares me, this kind of ties into number 1 for me, because of the plugin I am working on.
3) A shortcut key like Ctrl+Shift+B to build a stack into a standalone, it's a shortcut key I really miss when I've spent a lot of time in Visual Studio. Well more shortcut keys in general for the IDE.
I also think this would be a cool thread for other people to drop down their own requests for the IDE, also I would just like to remind you all that we do now have a sub-reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/livecode, so feel free to drop by so we can make memes out of LiveCode. XD