Little imperfections...

Outlaw Game Tools
#1

* Find windows seem to have a mind of their own - you can have multiple on the screen - don’t listen to cmd-w to close

* find again is not bound to cmd-g, which would be a great help

* please do not use right-click to find things on ansca’s website, but give me a pop-up menu to copy/paste/etc. (and maybe in the menu a doc lookup

* sometimes the screen with the text gets all garbled up - it seems to be visual and the text is not affected - not sure how to reproduce it

* the auto-text generation is far from perfect and gets in the way - I guess TextMate’s functionality is nicest: you select stuff and press “(”, or “(” or ‘"’, and the selected text gets sandwiched,

* the auto-indent behaves weirds and gets confused - sometimes it moves things to the beginning of the line if it is confused and it won’t listen to tabs - only deleting backwards and a new CR seems to remedy things…until you c&p something in again - seems very much related to copy&paste.

* if you have edit windows open from multiple projects, then the cmd-R will not reload the project of the window in front but the one shown in the main window… but the play button on that window does.

* please give another menu-option to open files in an external editor as an easier fall-back option or put it in the menu-bar

Besides all these little things… it’s almost perfect :wink:

Thanks, FrankS.
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#2

Thanks for the list, Frank.

The last couple weeks I’ve been using CPM while writing my first full game with Corona SDK (almost done!) and have bumped my head against several of the things in your list. Especially Command-G. Every time I brought up the Code Generator when I wanted to Find Next I kicked myself.

I kicked myself a lot. That Command-G thing is just ingrained now. :slight_smile:

As far as that last bullet point goes – in Prefs > General you can specify to open code in an external editor. Or did you mean something else?

Jay

PS - A few days ago one of the engineers at Ansca sent me a list of “things that are weird” – that list, your list, and the list I’ve made over the last couple weeks are being combined (plus feedback from others). And starting next week I’ll be marching down that list to take CPM to the next level. I expect all the changes are going to take more than a month of work, so the next version of CPM probably won’t be out until around the first of May. Maybe sooner, but a couple things are pretty “deep.” :slight_smile: [import]uid: 9440 topic_id: 7636 reply_id: 27095[/import]

#3

>As far as that last bullet point goes – in Prefs > General you can specify to open code in an
> external editor. Or did you mean something else?

I knew about that… it’s just that sometimes you get too frustrated and just want to get back to textmate in one click… it’s more like a frustration-overwrite :wink:

-FS.
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#4

I would add this.

When you are editing code in windows, not tabs, there is a play button, but not a stop button on the edit window. Can we get a stop button put on the edit window as well?

Mike Hovland
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#5

The toolbar for the code windows is a little sparse right now, so the chances of getting a Stop button are pretty good at some point in the future. And some other buttons, just need to decide what should go there. :slight_smile:

Thanks.

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#6

I just purchased this and also found it to be very quirky. I want to edit under tabs, but my tabs are stuck at the bottom and I cannot move them up so that I can edit my code. The only way this can be done is to open a new window:( Also, when you start a new project, it doesn’t save the files to a folder. You have to first manually create a folder and then designate the folder as the “base” folder. This doesn’t seem too intuitive. Also, I wanted to make this my default app when I double click a lua file, but I cannot do this either. Where do I find the Corona libraries to add the program?

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#7

@janescarano posted that while we were trading emails so I thought I’d post the response because other people may wonder the same thing. (Oh, the editor not showing DID get fixed – it was kind of minimized down on the bottom of the window.)

Also, when you start a new project, it doesn’t save the files to a folder. You have to first manually create a folder and then designate the folder as the “base” folder. This doesn’t seem too intuitive.

That’s because CPM allows you to create “virtual projects” which aren’t tied to any particular location on disk. Which means you have the choice whether to create a physical or virtual project – if I create a folder on disk you lose the ability to choose which one you want.

I wanted to make this my default app when I double click a lua file, but I cannot do this either.

CPM was designed as a project manager, not an editor. In fact, the first few versions didn’t even have an editor built in, so using a Lua file to launch CPM didn’t make sense. On the other hand, now that it DOES have an editor, what you want to do does make sense. It won’t make it into the April update (scheduled for release next week) but I’ll put it on the list for the May upgrade.

Also, Where do I find the Corona libraries to add the program?

You scavenge them from among all the Ansca sample code. They don’t give us an easy way to get them all at this point – it should be easier than doing a “search and rescue” mission among the folders of the sample code.

Jay
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