[PDK-Beta] A few items ...
by Tobias Hoellrich other posts by this author
May 24 2004 12:31PM messages near this date
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[PDK-Beta] pai doesn't work with double-quotes in version info
Instead of filing bug-reports or, gosh, even searching if those items have
been mentioned in the bug-database before, I just post some random notes
here:
1) Double-clicking equivalent to "+"/"-" clicking?
I caught myself double-clicking on the module-/file-name several times,
instead of using the "+"/"-" icons and expecting that the double-click would
have the same behaviour. Maybe something that could be added?
2) Reference history?
When following the (nice) references ("This file is referenced by ...") at
the bottom of a module info screen, I wish there would have been a way to go
"back" in the list of references I followed. Perhaps maintain a history of
the last n references followed?
3) Reference highlight?
Let's say that the pane on the left tells me I'm using Carp. I'm clicking on
Carp and I see "This file is referenced by ...,Scalar::Util,...". I click on
"Scalar::Util" and it tells me where "Scalar::Util" pulls in "Carp". Now I
don't remember including "Scalar::Util" in my original source, so I wish I
could find out who is pulling Scalar::Util. In order to find the first
mention of "Scalar::Util" I have to click "+" several times to see it's
first mention in the hierarchy. Would it be useful to have a "Show me this
module in the hierarchy" in order to synchronize the hierarchy tree on the
left with the module I'm pointing at? Maybe a context menu over module
names? (MSDN has this feature where you can say synchronize the TOCs with
the page that I'm looking at on the right). If this is too confusing I can
provide some screen shots to make it clearer.
4) Source syntax highlighting?
You're doing a nice job displaying sources, would it be too much to ask for
a "simple" syntax highlighting in the file viewer? (I always get dizzy when
I have look at sources without font-lock-mode in emacs)
5) Xref/Documentation?
I often use something like "call c:\perl\bin\perltidy.bat -html -frm foo.pl"
during the "make" of perlapp projects to keep an online HTML documentation
for the project in sync with the sources. This is extremely useful when
somebody else starts looking at your sources. Maybe even offer an option to
do something like this if the presence of Perl::Tidy is detected?
And to go even one step further, perhaps even offer support for 'perl
-MO=Xref' :-)
6) POE?
I still have to use POE_PREPROC_DUMP to get POE-scripts through perlapp. Is
there any tweaking available to make this happen in one step? You don't seem
to have any problems with source filters in general. Why is POE the only one
having problems?
Cheers
Tobias
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