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digitalmars.D.ide - A few issues in VSD

reply "Namespace" <rswhite4 googlemail.com> writes:
I use VisualD often, but the following three issues are really 
annoying (That much that I use it only experimental and for real 
changes, I use MonoD).
Any chance to fix them (soon)?

  - VisualD has no Tasks (I love Tasks, especially if you work in 
Teams)
  - No formatting section in the D options (That is what I miss 
most)
Nov 16 2013
parent reply Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
On 16.11.2013 23:09, Namespace wrote:

 I use VisualD often, but the following three issues are really annoying
 (That much that I use it only experimental and for real changes, I use
 MonoD).
 Any chance to fix them (soon)?

   - VisualD has no Tasks (I love Tasks, especially if you work in Teams)


Everybody is free to make pull requests to that respect ;-)


   - No formatting section in the D options (That is what I miss most)


What options do you expect?





You mean automatically adding the closing brace if you write the opening 
one? I noticed VS2013 now has a setting to this respect on the generic 
editor options page...
Nov 18 2013
parent reply "Namespace" <rswhite4 googlemail.com> writes:
On Monday, 18 November 2013 at 08:09:07 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
wrote:

 On 16.11.2013 23:09, Namespace wrote:

 I use VisualD often, but the following three issues are really 
 annoying
 (That much that I use it only experimental and for real 
 changes, I use
 MonoD).
 Any chance to fix them (soon)?

  - VisualD has no Tasks (I love Tasks, especially if you work 
 in Teams)


 Everybody is free to make pull requests to that respect ;-)


I will try it, but I'm sure your better than me. :D

  - No formatting section in the D options (That is what I miss 
 most)


 What options do you expect?


Tab indentation, closing braces etc. The same thing as you have 



 killer)


 You mean automatically adding the closing brace if you write 
 the opening one? I noticed VS2013 now has a setting to this 
 respect on the generic editor options page...


Yes exactly. That would be nice.
Otherwise even Sublime is far more comfortable. You should use 
Sublime and MonoD, to see the huge differences in the usage.
Nov 18 2013
next sibling parent reply "froglegs" <barf barf.com> writes:
  I was just playing with Visual D, it has auto completion when I 
type now(after I turned it on) Nice job Rainer!!

Anyway aside from what the OP mentioned I noticed these-- How 
difficult do you think it is to add any of these? I'd be willing 
to give it a shot if it isn't super difficult/time consuming.

1. Not sure how to change the coloring it is applying to "string" 
etc, but on my screen the dark blue is almost invisible against 
my black background. Instead of having specific types that have 
this blue applied, I'd like to be able to specify exactly how 
identifiers/classes/functions/member functions/variables/member 
variables/numbers/strings(and many more options) are to be 
colored, just as Visual Assist allows.

2. I'd like to see tooltips that display the comment associated 
with a given object/variable. ie

//hello?
class blah{
}

Hovering over blah or any instances of blah does not show the 
comment--

3. Hovering over an auto variable doesn't show the actual type.  
So this,
   auto IAmFloat = 5.2f;

  Hovering over IAmFloat should indicate that this is a float 
type(as it does in C++).

4. Refactoring: rename, encapsulate into function
Nov 18 2013
next sibling parent reply "froglegs" <barf barf.com> writes:
  Remember a few other important features:

* Find all references: can be used to find any refs to a 
object/function/variable etc

* Highlighting of current symbol, whichever symbol you have 
clicked on is highlighted everywhere that it is used in the 
current document.

  I wish you could embed images in this crappy email based web 
forum so I could just post pics-- o well.
Nov 18 2013
parent Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
On 19.11.2013 01:20, froglegs wrote:

   Remember a few other important features:

 * Find all references: can be used to find any refs to a
 object/function/variable etc


That isn't as dangerous as refactoring, but still needs good analysis.


 * Highlighting of current symbol, whichever symbol you have clicked on
 is highlighted everywhere that it is used in the current document.


VS2012 and VS2013 have this built in for searched text, so I'm not sure 
it is worth adding in Visual D.


   I wish you could embed images in this crappy email based web forum so
 I could just post pics-- o well.
Nov 19 2013
prev sibling parent Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
On 19.11.2013 01:13, froglegs wrote:

   I was just playing with Visual D, it has auto completion when I type
 now(after I turned it on) Nice job Rainer!!

 Anyway aside from what the OP mentioned I noticed these-- How difficult
 do you think it is to add any of these? I'd be willing to give it a shot
 if it isn't super difficult/time consuming.

 1. Not sure how to change the coloring it is applying to "string" etc,
 but on my screen the dark blue is almost invisible against my black
 background. Instead of having specific types that have this blue
 applied, I'd like to be able to specify exactly how
 identifiers/classes/functions/member functions/variables/member
 variables/numbers/strings(and many more options) are to be colored, just
 as Visual Assist allows.


That needs quite extensive semantic analysis, so it might reduce the 
performance of the syntax highlighting. But maybe the approach I also 
see with Visual Assist might work: use standard colors at the beginning, 
and recolorize only when the analysis is complete.


 2. I'd like to see tooltips that display the comment associated with a
 given object/variable. ie

 //hello?
 class blah{
 }

 Hovering over blah or any instances of blah does not show the comment--


When having Alexander Bothe's engine enabled, this should work for Ddoc 
comments (use /// for simple comments).


 3. Hovering over an auto variable doesn't show the actual type. So this,
    auto IAmFloat = 5.2f;

   Hovering over IAmFloat should indicate that this is a float type(as it
 does in C++).


That information should be available, I guess it's just an oversight 
that it isn't displayed.


 4. Refactoring: rename, encapsulate into function


That needs full trust in the semantic analysis...
Nov 19 2013
prev sibling parent Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
On 18.11.2013 09:16, Namespace wrote:

 On Monday, 18 November 2013 at 08:09:07 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 On 16.11.2013 23:09, Namespace wrote:

 I use VisualD often, but the following three issues are really annoying
 (That much that I use it only experimental and for real changes, I use
 MonoD).
 Any chance to fix them (soon)?

  - VisualD has no Tasks (I love Tasks, especially if you work in Teams)


 Everybody is free to make pull requests to that respect ;-)


 I will try it, but I'm sure your better than me. :D


I've never used that VS feature and never felt the need to, so it's not 
top of my priority list...


  - No formatting section in the D options (That is what I miss most)


 What options do you expect?


 Tab indentation, closing braces etc. The same thing as you have for e.g.



Visual D has "smart" indentation that you can also use on a selected 
code block similar to what VS offers for C++. But there is no 
reformatting. I'll have a look at Mono-D to see what it might offer.





 You mean automatically adding the closing brace if you write the
 opening one? I noticed VS2013 now has a setting to this respect on the
 generic editor options page...


 Yes exactly. That would be nice.
 Otherwise even Sublime is far more comfortable. You should use Sublime
 and MonoD, to see the huge differences in the usage.
Nov 18 2013