AW: [wingide-users] Some bugs, some WEPs on WingIDE 1.1b5 (WinNT)

Hi Stephan,

> > -- Copy with Ctrl-C does not copy the last character (very anoying).

I'm not sure whether it is Ctrl-C or Ctrl-V that is "forgetting" the last
character.


> keymap.normal yourself in your installation, to work around the last one

That's one of the many good things of Unix: Allmost anything is in plain
ASCII files, editable with a plain ASCII editor. Keep this up and don't go
to the Registry...


> It should be coming up... may be a bug or could be that you've altered the
> debug.raise-window-on-break preference?  Also, can't you go to the

No, I didn't. It is "debug.raise-window-on-break='raise-always'".


> The source windows should close if you close the project from the Project
> menu, unless you set the preference proj.close-also-windows to false...

It is "proj.close-also-windows=true".


> project or quit the app.  I'm guessing that would be a mistake, although
> it's not hard to add a configurable option for this.

Would be nice for me, I'm somehow used to have a main window. Your
experiences with other Windows users will show. I know, that software
*created* on other platforms and *ported* to Windows is likely to behave
this way (Macromedia products come into my mind).


Best regards
Franz GEIGER


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Stephan R.A. Deibel [mailto:sdeibel@archaeopteryx.com]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 15. Mai 2001 23:30
> An: F. GEIGER
> Cc: wingide-users@archaeopteryx.com
> Betreff: Re: [wingide-users] Some bugs, some WEPs on WingIDE 1.1b5
> (WinNT)
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Just a few notes on the items you listed...  Thanks for taking the time
> to make these comments and bug reports!
>
> - Stephan
>
> ----------------------------
>
> On Tue, 15 May 2001, F. GEIGER wrote:
> > -- The name of the project should be visible in the title bar
> of the Project
> > Manager.
> > -- *All* windows should be scrollable with a wheel mouse (have a look at
> > PythonWin from M. Hammond).
> > -- Strange key mapping on my machine: Pressing Esc fills the line with
> > 'Bel'.
> > -- Shift-Ctrl-greater/less does not work on a German keyboard:
> The '<' and
> > the '>' are both on *one* button. For '<' you don't have to
> press Shift, for
> > '>' you have to.
>
> These should all be done soon (before 1.1 final).  You can change
> keymap.normal yourself in your installation, to work around the last one
> for now.  We'll probably change the default mapping to something more
> compatible with that type of keyboard.
>
> > -- Copy with Ctrl-C does not copy the last character (very anoying).
>
> Oops... bad Windows-specific off-by-one bug.
>
> > -- Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Dn should work at least in source windows
> (have a look
> > at PythonWin from M. Hammond).
> > -- There must be a Tab Nanny (have a look at PythonWin from M. Hammond).
> > -- You definitely should consider to implement all the COM features of
> > PythonWin.
>
> We'll have to look at these.  I've added them as candidates for 1.2 but
> the COM stuff is probably further off.
>
> > -- A click into the error window should bring me to the offending line.
>
> This should be in version 1.2.
>
> > -- The window, which a breakpoint was encountered in, should
> come into the
> > foreground. Today I have to click into all windows to see were
> a breakpoint
> > was hit.
>
> It should be coming up... may be a bug or could be that you've altered the
> debug.raise-window-on-break preference?  Also, can't you go to the
> debugger window and double click on the lowest stack frame?  That's at
> least an easier work-around if there is a bug that's preventing display of
> the window.  If that also doesn't work, something more serious is wrong.
>
> > -- If I close the Project Manager, all other windows should close too.
>
> The source windows should close if you close the project from the Project
> menu, unless you set the preference proj.close-also-windows to false...
> but we don't interpret closing the project manager as meaning close the
> project or quit the app.  I'm guessing that would be a mistake, although
> it's not hard to add a configurable option for this.
>
>
>