Well, I think it's a nice treat Rev gave us, not for going ahead with work in it or testing every single thing -- "pre" beta after all -- but it lets everyone see a preview of basically how the new interface is going to look and work. Nothing wrong with that IMO! I think it's a nice gesture from Rev and very enjoyable to try it out if you interpret it and use it in the sense that I believe it was offered.>However, with this 2.0 pre-beta my personal opinion is that there isso much bugs and unfinished features that's is not possible for me to do any meaningful testing. I'm not really a cutting edge user, so hopefully others have ways of testing the IDE (like from the Message>window)? > I too am very disapointed with this pre-Beta : too much messages : not yet implemented or bugs.I think the people who said "wait until a good finished product" are right It's not necessary to release a version to satisfy some people who are waiting with impatience. I think it's better to wait until the team has worked further.
The smooth window resizing is very neat, and I like that it's been thoughtfully included to use in our apps too. The properties palette is super clean, a huge improvement.
(You can't beat the cleanness of the menu in the palette but still, you have to admit it's faster to have a one-click method for switching sections--I say maybe add a row of tiny icon buttons (the size of the icons for adding and deleting categories in custom and profile sections of the palette) for the different sections along the top and let the user choose to show the menu, both, or just the icon row. But keep the menu default, it sets a very clean tone for everything.)
I also like to be able to set the margins of an object in the palette, but could I suggest to also add an interface element to change each margin separately? Maybe a small option menu to choose All, Left, Top, Right, or Bottom, using the same entry field so it doesn't take up much more room than now.
For Font and Size option menus in the palette, it would be nice to begin the menu with a blank (space) item equivalent to "use owner's size".
The interface for setting a stack shape is just too good! (Try it people!)
Everything looks very deserving of the 2.0 hype. I do think it would nice to paste images from the clipbard when no image object is selected and have a new image object created the size of the image data rather than of the card. Putting together something with clipart or that sort of thing, it could speed things up.
Great Saturday night bonus.
Curry
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