On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:52 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 1/13/11 12:15 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: >> Livecode is a great tool but the IDE is full of user interface >> weirdnesses as far as I'm concerned. There are three different >> Find/Replace dialogs and you're never sure which one will pop up when >> you press command-F. > > They're contextual. The right one appears depending on what you're doing. I > can only think of two though, the one in the script editor and the general > one for stack searches.
The script editor find has a variation when you click the "More..." button. I've seen that window come up sometimes when I select Find from the edit menu but can't pin down just when that happens. > >> The File menu contents are completely different >> depending on which window is active. > > Menus are contextual too. It's only an issue on OS X, which doesn't have menu > bars in the windows. On other operating systems it's pretty clear because the > menu is part of the window; script editor menus are attached to the script > editor window, for example. Sure I understand that. But there are only four options on the File Menu when the script editor window is active - Apply, Save, Close, and Print. Apply has a button on the script editor window so why not have buttons for the other functions on the script editor window and leave the File menu as it is when a stack window has focus. I shouldn't have to switch to a stack window in order to open another stack file. Or open the Message Box or the Application Browser. > >> The message box appears and >> disappears at what seem to be completely random intervals. > > It isn't really random, it's whether a script editor has the focus or not. > You can turn off that behavior in preferences. On small monitors, it's > convenient to hide the message box and other palettes when a script is open > to save screen space. On larger monitors it isn't necessary. I always turn > off hiding. > >> How nice >> would it be to have an Application Browser option to list stacks, not >> cards, in alphabetical order. > > For mainstacks that would be nice. I'd like to keep the substacks attached to > them the way they are now though. That's why I said it should be an option :-) I have around 40 substacks in my application and trying to find a specific one in the Application Browser is a pain, particularly since I can;t tell what order they are in - maybe sorted by the date they were created? > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
