Hi there, just bought B4A after liking it during the trial period. I actually got an old Palm app running in Android in a few days of (enjoyable) mucking around.
A few (OK, more than a few) wishes for the B4A Designer:
- Wish the Designer could be docked into the main IDE, like VB and most other IDEs do. Managing a separate window is extra overhead.
- Similarly, wish the Designer could be more compactly laid out for smaller screens (e.g. laptops). There is some wasted space there, and lists I rarely use.
- Would be good if the Designer could be topmost only for B4A, not Windows-wide.
- May be more efficient to change the View pulldown to a listbox (like Image Files), for quicker access to views. That would also let me glance over to check the name of a widget when coding.
- View pulldown - I can click in it and type, but not sure what that does. If it does nothing, making it a pulldown (instead of a combobox) would make it an easier target to click.
- ProgressBar - Wish the "Progress" property was available in the Designer.
- Would like the option to always auto-expand all properties (e.g. Text Style), so I don't have to keep re-opening them whenever I select a different widget.
- Would be great if I could press F1 (Help) when selecting a property in the Designer (or in the code editor) to get specific help on it (like VB does).
- Undo would be welcome, like when I accidently move a widget.
- Would like to be able to add items to a scrollview at design time - that is, add them to the scrollview like they can be added to panels, either by setting their Parent property or by selecting the scrollview and adding a new view to it.
- Generate Members - When adding event subs, always adding a blank line between them (consistently) would save some minor cleanup.
- Generate Members - Adding an option to generate the LoadLayout code for the activity would be handy.
None of these are a big deal, just small refinements that might speed up coding.
Hope this helps! :sign0098:
A few (OK, more than a few) wishes for the B4A Designer:
- Wish the Designer could be docked into the main IDE, like VB and most other IDEs do. Managing a separate window is extra overhead.
- Similarly, wish the Designer could be more compactly laid out for smaller screens (e.g. laptops). There is some wasted space there, and lists I rarely use.
- Would be good if the Designer could be topmost only for B4A, not Windows-wide.
- May be more efficient to change the View pulldown to a listbox (like Image Files), for quicker access to views. That would also let me glance over to check the name of a widget when coding.
- View pulldown - I can click in it and type, but not sure what that does. If it does nothing, making it a pulldown (instead of a combobox) would make it an easier target to click.
- ProgressBar - Wish the "Progress" property was available in the Designer.
- Would like the option to always auto-expand all properties (e.g. Text Style), so I don't have to keep re-opening them whenever I select a different widget.
- Would be great if I could press F1 (Help) when selecting a property in the Designer (or in the code editor) to get specific help on it (like VB does).
- Undo would be welcome, like when I accidently move a widget.
- Would like to be able to add items to a scrollview at design time - that is, add them to the scrollview like they can be added to panels, either by setting their Parent property or by selecting the scrollview and adding a new view to it.
- Generate Members - When adding event subs, always adding a blank line between them (consistently) would save some minor cleanup.
- Generate Members - Adding an option to generate the LoadLayout code for the activity would be handy.
None of these are a big deal, just small refinements that might speed up coding.
Hope this helps! :sign0098: