I'm a fan of CW personally, and it has a lot very neat features that make DevStudio look like a dinosaur. *But*, the editor gets a "D-" imo, mainly due to its lack of pc-ness. It doesn't have Brief emulation, the syntax colouring and keyboard configuration isn't exhaustive enough and no docking source windows is inexcuseable. A fair attempt has been made at the latter using MDI but then I can't spread all my non source windows onto my second monitor. Nor can I keep a fixed size pane of source on my primary if it isn't docked. (Look at GetWindowLong()) Fix these issues (mainly the editor stuff) and I'd even consider CW over DevStudio for PC work. At the moment its soooo obviously still a Mac port.
Thanks for the comments... I agree that docking source windows would be really great addition, and I know this is on out interface roadmap. I'd also like to see docking work outside of the MDI context, but it's implemented in a way that depends on the parent window being there right now.
In a way you can do docked source windows in MDI mode with IDE 5 (CW for Palm OS V9). Just right click on the window title, make the source window a floating window, then dock it to the side of the IDE's MDI window. Repeat as often as needed and position them on top of each other so that they occupy the same space and have tabs to pick them apart. I've done this to have a number of header files easily available while editing my main file in MDI maximized mode.
Please file a bug report on the size retention problem -- this may have already been fixed for the IDE we're including in 9.2, but it would be good to have it logged here.
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