And then to add onto that, what if the developer is using visual Studio? Offer a choice of editors as I like VS 2012's editing capabilities with intelisense, you know?
From: David [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2013 6:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: WEFramework - Feature requests I wonder, if a couple of features could have been implemented with the GW WEFramework app. First of all, every time I am to start out a new project, I will be going through the wizzard. This wizzard is nice, except from it keeping asking me info, that would be quite similar for every new project. For instance, my name, email and so forth, would be standard the same, no matter which project I am starting out. Would it be an idea, for the app to store these infos, in the ini file. Next time I start a new project, it then would suggest (or auto-fill-in the proper fields), this info in the wizzard. That would make the wizzard even more smooth and quick in usage. And, I could always change the info, should I for some reason want it to be different for a given project. That is, the app would automatically fill in the stored info in the proper fields, yet still show me the screens, that I could change whatever info I wanted. At least, it would save me from retyping the same info every new project. The other request I have, has to do with the final screen of the app. Here, you are offered to open the project file itself, or the XML file - in Notepad. Well, why not let the app do a quick test, checking if the UI Design app is currently running. That way, when I hit the Open button for the XML, it would be loaded directly into UI Design. If UI Design is not currently running on the computer and user, the XML could always be loaded into Notepad. But, long as the Design app is running, I really don't see the benefit of being offered from the Framework, to load the XML file into Notepad. Further, could there have been a way, for the Framework to offer to "Add On New Functionality" to an existing project. Recently, when updating the Extended Dictionary project of mine, I had to add on a new hotkey to the script. I thought I had made all the necessary changes, but happened to have overlooked one spot, causing the new hotkey not to work properly. If now, the Framework app had offered me a chance, of loading the existing project, and then adding a new hotkey, making all the necessary changes for me, that would have been saving me for some debugging. Likewise, when you start out a new project, the Framework does offer you the chance of including different features from the GWToolkit. But, what if you are not sure, when you start out with a project that later on will increase in functionality, which of the features you will eventually happen to need. Allright, the safest way, would of course be - as it stands today - to simply add on all the features listed. Then, they are all available for later usage. But that results in an exergerated huge script, and would maybe even pose a heavier load on the system, from what was really needed. Again, if I at a later state, could have let the framework add on the necessary lines for any new GWToolkit feature, to an existing project, that would have been really helpful. Hope all of this makes sense, and that it would be possible to have these updates to the Framework app, which really is a great tool for us, when developing new projects.
