I would like to be able to snap windows together in glade (or an IDE that works
with glade). That way I could get all the windows I wanted to the front with
one click.
On 11-Dec-99 Michael T. Babcock wrote:
> You may not need debuggers, but having both the editor and the UI design in
> front of you simultaneously is very useful as you're working on individual
> buttons and the logic of scrollbars, etc. (short pieces of code that you want
> to see what they're attached to easily). I would love it if I could have the
> "right" windows visible simultaneously without others popping up in the way
> ... and that doesn't necessarily mean EITHER gui design tools
> OR editing/debugging tools.
>
> Rubén wrote:
>
>> > I know I am treading in dangerous ground here ... but
>> > to use Glade currently, you need 4 or 5 windows. This works
>> > OK when Glade is all you are running - I generally exile
>> > Glade off to a separate virtual desktop - but if you popped
>> > up Glade from within a IDE the user would be presented with a
>> > pile of windows overlaying their current pile ... certainly
>> > not easy to use.
>>
>> I think it's easy to avoid, if you can have the IDE into two
>> different states, the code editing state and the interface editing state
>> (like JBuilder, for example), then, when in code editing mode, you hide the
>> glade windows, and when you return, you show them again. Of course, into
>> interface editing mode, you hide all code editing windows opened, or almost
>> all. IMHO, the currently glade editing window, should fit with CORBA into
>> the IDE main window in any way, to give more integration feeling :)
>>
>> > flexibility ... I think a big win in the case where the user
>> > is trying to juggle Glade in combination with other
>> > editors, debuggers, and components.
>>
>> But when you are drawing your interface, you don't need neither
>> editors, nor debuggers, and you can hide them.
>>
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