Small bugs

Antonio Eduardo Costa Pereira costa@ufu.br
Sun, 9 Apr 2000 11:27:17 -0300


> > (1) If you try to create a project withou any  edit window, CleanIDE 
> > introduces a .dcl in the project window. In order to reproduce this 
> > litle bug, select New Project immediately after entering the 
> > environment (first thing upon entering).
>
> You are right, this is one of the areas of the new ide where I still have
> to decide what I would like the behaviour to be. Bugs like this
 > will be squashed sooner if users come with good suggestions
>  for appropriate functionality.

Here is my suggestion: Leave it the way it was in the old CleanIDE.
There, if you do not have the edit icl file window, the New Project 
becomes disabled. Of course, opening a project window without 
any ICL or DCL edit window is what IDEs for other languages do. 
The user adds to the project whatever files s/he wants after 
creating the project window. However, I discovered that beginners 
think it easier the way  CleanIDE is, i.e.,  you need nothing else 
than pressing a button to create a project. No files to add. The act 
of pressing the button adds whatever file is open, or imported by an 
open file. By the way, this is how you implemented the new IDE 
too. In this case, you need to disable the NewProject option in the 
task menu, in order to prevent user from creating a project withou 
files. Resume of the opera: My suggestion is to leave it the way it 
is. Everibody and his brother like it the way it is. The only fix is to 
disable the button when there is no edit window. Exactly like the 
old CleanIDE.

Eduardo Costa