Hi Rako, I'll reply in-line as you made a few comments I'd like to address individually.
On Oct 3, 8:28 am, Rako <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I am concerned, the most important change would be the > Firebug Window itself. > 1.) There should be a 3-way option: Always in the same window/Always > in a separate window/Start minimized yeah, a preference might be useful here. We should file an issue for that. > 2.) when the Firebug window is separate from the actual FireFox > window, it schould be tabbed like Firefox, so that it would appear > just once in the task-bar. a tabbed window? That's an interesting idea. Of course, you can hover over the window in your task bar and read the tool tip that pops up, but that requires a lot more hovering and waiting than is useful. > Currently if I am testing some aspect in more then one page (say page- > interconnection) and vave FB in separate windows, there are as many FB- > windows open as tabs being tested. But the problem is: which window > belongs to which tab!!! > This would be solved by the tabbed-FB. > > Further features > 3.) Function-Trace (see separate discussion) > 4.) variable-trace: You could set Trace-Watch for variables so that at > a given break-point you yould see if, when and how it was change. > it could be something like this: > Variable: JS-Function Line# new value > User_Name Update_Cookie 432 Joe Smith > Date_Time Get_Curr_Time 43 20080103121212 > Date_Time Get_Curr_Time2 43 20080103152535 > > This would speed up testing, as you would see when did the variable > get the unexpected value and set the break-point there, instead of > having to step through the functions. also an interesting suggestion. I bet we'd have to make some modifications to the JSD layer in Spidermonkey though. > For complex pages: > 5.) The list of Libraries should be shown for selection in a separate > window: > Currently sometimes not all libraries are shown in the menu. In a > separate window with its scrollbar you do not have this problem. or, if you've got firebug open in a separate window, maybe a sidebar panel listing all of the files similar to various text editors' Project view. > 6.) Ability to collapse the functions: A kind of Treeview Folding in the script editor. This would be nice too. I use that a fair bit in my usual text editor of choice TextMate. > Only the fully expanded functions could be stepped through. Thus for > these clicking on the Next-Step would go to the function-header, next- > step then would go to the next statement in the calling function. > This would allow the expanding/collapsing if functions at will, and > would make it easier to look through a JS-Library. > It should be possible to collapse all functions with a single click or > to expand all of them. > > 7.) Ability to assign the function-key to functions line Next- > statement, step-over, step-out, etc. > It would be nice to have some ready-made alternatives like Visual- > Studio, etc Yeah, I think there's a bug on file for this (or at least a separate discussion, re: keycommand?). Many of the current default assignments conflict with other applications. Having a keyboard preferences editor would be very useful. > Possibly later I find some more suggestions, but I think these are > enough to start with. Great suggestions! Thanks. > > On Oct 2, 3:41 pm, Rob Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Firebuggists, > > > We're having some discussion about what works and what could be > > improved upon in the Firebug UI. Here's an opportunity to vent your > > frustration or pet-peeves about what you don't like about the UI. What > > do you think should be changed or improved-upon the most? If you have > > suggestions on how to improve it, even better. > > > Thanks! > > Rob "pyroentomologist" Campbell --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
