Definition of Variables Window – Sizing (Want)
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You will obtain this in the Want/Bugs list, right ?
I am happy to do above, but thought I’d make it a general discipline to leave for a day or two to give a chance for others to say … you’ve got it wrong GraHal, you need to do this or that then you won’t have that problem??
Anyway as you are working the Wants and Bugs through PRT, so might you be best to add all Wants & Bugs to the List then you will recognise your own wording / description etc.
Some folks also may be hesitant to commit themselves to adding to the List?
Aren’t we breaking our own rules here by discussing List procedures on a Wants Topic?? 🙂
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For hopefully additional clarity for PRT :
- Although GraHal does not mention it, the same counts for the width of this form; once you have one variable with a so much longer name that the form does not anticipate it, a horizontal scrollbar appears and only with scrolling or dragging wider, you can reach the “step size” for all variables. Thus, drag wider each time the variables window opens (because it was closed for whatever reason you like).
- What GraHal rightfully points out is that the variables window will be large up to huge, covering other more important stuff on the screen, for the moment (like charts).
PRT, please, in the devleopment (coding) environment, all works differently than in the normal platform environment. So what I explicitly like to add (but in the end it is the very same problem) is that whatever is given the focus (clicked) the whole coding environment with all its forms, comes on top of everything else you rather liked to see. For example, it I click that variables window, I do not want the editor to overlay charts etc. Or, if I click the editor, I don’t want the variables window to overlay my other stuff (this is what GraHal talks about, though from different angles).
- Allow for every form to go to the taskbar individually, on command (“minus” button in title bar)
- Please notice and recognize that ALL in the normal platform is just 100% perfect regarding this. This includes clicking a form that causing only that form to overlay some other part. But click it again, and the whole platform overlays everything. I could not have designed this better. It is plainly superb. … Now apply all these (thus well known !) features to the coding environment, and so many people will be so happy with so much smaller monitors. 🙂
One more example I now think of in the again same realm : The right hand part of the Editor form is mostly not accessed. But it can’t be dragged smaller. It is relatively “huge” for something you mostly don’t need at all. And … it will overlay something else important of the coding environment itself. It is all about the same things …
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