A confusing item on the SimpleIDE Interface.
photomankc
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Something that caught me off guard starting my first project from scratch: The file manger area.... it was not obvious to me at all to right-click on an existing file to get to the option to add another file to the project. I was head-scratching for a while trying to figure out how to solve it complaining that my header was not in the project. Seems like the menu items to add files to a project ought to be in the project menu. Not sure if there is some other reason why it is this way but I definately found it difficult being my first time moving beyond modifying an existing project.
A couple other observations:
As a later-on down the road thing, it would be nice to be able to organize the files and tabs in my own order. As more and more files get added it helps (me anyway) to be able to group them in ways that make sense to you rather than just how they were added initially or by alphabet. Same with tabs, if you can slide them around to keep foo.h next to foo.cpp even if you opened foo.h after 6 other files.
Another would be a way to open the editior for a file to a seperate window? I do a lot of my electronics work on a Netbook and there is precious little screen real-estate to start with and it gets very cramped once the other IDE side-bars, tool bars. and status widows take thier cut.
0.02 from a newb.
A couple other observations:
As a later-on down the road thing, it would be nice to be able to organize the files and tabs in my own order. As more and more files get added it helps (me anyway) to be able to group them in ways that make sense to you rather than just how they were added initially or by alphabet. Same with tabs, if you can slide them around to keep foo.h next to foo.cpp even if you opened foo.h after 6 other files.
Another would be a way to open the editior for a file to a seperate window? I do a lot of my electronics work on a Netbook and there is precious little screen real-estate to start with and it gets very cramped once the other IDE side-bars, tool bars. and status widows take thier cut.
0.02 from a newb.
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It would be pretty easy to add some Project menu items to add files, etc....
I'll also expand the Project Manager "hover help" to mention the right-click popup. I've made notes about sliding editor tabs and "un-docking" the editors. I'll check it.
Meanwhile if you're cramped for space, you can grab the bar between the project manager and the editor and drag it to the left side to collapse the project manager. That will leave only the editor, build status, and menus in the window.
Thanks,
--Steve
Thinking along the same lines of editing in a seperate window have you considered an option similar to the Arduino IDE for
an external editor. Arduino IDE appears to do nothing more than re-read the text edited in another editor when you switch between
windows using Alt-Tab. It does disable the Edit area to displaying the text only. There seems to be no sharing of any info between
the Ardunio IDE and the editor even what editor of the file name. If you edit the text for the same file open in Ardunio IDE with say
notepad++ but do not save Arduino knows nothing about the edits. It does work and I find it better for editing and switching to the
Arduino IDE window to compile even though I have to keep both in sync with the same file myself.
Tom