Hi,
I use Win XP Pro SP3, Active Perl 5.8.8.
Here is my feedback:
1. I think you should specify that the program requires
Wx::Perl::ProcessStream
After "perl Makefile.pl" it didn't tell me that I don't have that module
installed, but it gave an error on "make test".
After I installed that module, I was able to install your program without
other errors.
2. I have opened a file, but I can't close the editor.
I think that I have modified it a little by mistake, and it forces me to
save what I've done, because otherwise it doesn't want to close it without
saving.
I think you should add a "Cancel" button to that dialog, or ask if the user
wants to save, and offer the yes, no, and cancel buttons.
3. I have tried Help menu/Help, but I couldn't read anything there.
Have you used an HTML control in that window?
(That control is absolutely not accessible for screen readers.)
I think the prefered way, not only for the blind, would be to create a .chm
help file.
4. When switching the panes using control+tab, the program works fine, but
the focus is set to the tab label. A more friendly way would be to set the
focus in the text document directly, because usually this is the wanted
thing.
(But for a first version, it is very OK as it is.)
5. A suggestion: In the file menu, usually the "New" is located above the
"Open".
When I opened the File menu, I thought that this editor doesn't have a "New"
option. :-)
6. In the Edit menu, you should add the hotkeys for Undo, redo... because at
least Control+Z works, but this is not visible from the menu.
7. The hotkey for "Find again" (F3) doesn't seem to work. If I choose the
menu option though, it works fine.
8. Another suggestion: A status bar that could possibly show the line and
column number, won't hurt. :-)
9. I don't understand what does it refer to "Max number of modules" and "min
number of modules" in the Setup window.
10. It would be nice to be able to close the files using Control+F4.
11. I don't know why pressing Alt+F doesn't open the File menu when the
focus is on one of the tab labels...
12. I've seen that if I close the files individually and if they are not
saved, the program asks if I want to save them or not. I think you should
add a "Cancel" option, because maybe I've changed my mind, and I don't want
to close the current file.
And when I want to close the whole app (easier than using the Task manager
:), if there are more unsaved files opened, it would be nice to offer us a
list of files and let us check wich of them we want to save, all of them,
only the checked ones, or none, or cancel the whole close operation.
(These are suggestions for the future, not criticism.)
13. The foreground/background colors of the selected text looks a little
strange if my screen reader reports it correctly.
The normal text is something like navy (a kind of blue?) on white, and the
selected text is navy on gray.
Usually the colors are inverted when selecting, like white on blue or
something like that.
I think I could change my screen reader's highlight settings for the current
app in order to read the highlighted text correctly, but I don't know why,
the screen reader sees the app as wx.dll, which is the same for all the
applications made using WxPerl, so I would change these settings for all the
apps using WxPerl.
(I don't know where the screen reader is looking for getting the name of the
executable, so I don't know how could I fix that.)
14. Another suggestion: It would be nice to show the title of the current
file in the title bar, if not always, at least if the user chooses that in
the preferences.
Or at least it should be possible to use the keyboard to jump from the
current file to its own tab label, to see what it is written there, because
otherwise it is hard to know which file is the current one (If the user
can't see.).
15. I couldn't use the options from the "Run" menu.
I have configured it to run
perl
perl $file (like in TextPad)
perl file.txt
where file.txt is the currently opened file, but when using F5 or
Control+F5, nothing happend.
I've seen that there is a command results (maybe) readonly text field at the
bottom of the window, but nothing is printed there.
Anyway, if that it is a field for outputting the results, it would be nice
to have a hotkey that moves the cursor there, because if somebody wants to
copy the results but it doesn't use a mouse.... it can't do it.
HTH.
Octavian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "wxperl-users" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 9:45 AM
Subject: Padre 0.02 released
Hi,
after long consideration and help from the #perl.it people I decided
to call it Padre - Perl Application Development and Refactoring
Environment.
It is aiming very high so it is likely it will fail but I hope there
are going to be a few
people here on this list as well, who would might be able to help so
it has some chances to survive.
For now it is just an editor.
Padre is written in wxWidgets with my extremely limited knowladge.
So I would appreciate any help.
If you have time, please look at the code and comment on it.
How would you structure it?
How would you test?
Does it work on your computer?
etc.
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Padre
regards
Gabor
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