For as long as I can remember I've been experiencing these quirks with GMS2. Because they aren't really life-or-death, they're easy enough to tolerate (if annoying because they interrupt work flow), but I'd like to see if I'm not alone here. I hesitate to call them bugs because these may just be consequences of how the IDE works. Are these common issues that others have with the IDE too?
Quirks with the IDE and the IDE hanging:
Quirks with the IDE and the IDE hanging:
- When working in a workspace, sometimes right clicking and window and selecting "Close all but this" will cause the IDE to hang indefinitely until the Windows "Not Responding" dialogue box can be created by clicking anywhere in the IDE. I get that this is probably due to working with a lot of windows open at once and the IDE freaking out (maybe when it goes to animate all those window closes or something).
- Sometimes, adding assets to the project or dropping files into the "included files" folder from Windows explorer will also prompt a very long (but usually recoverable after 10-30 secs) IDE hang.
- Every time I run the debugger from scratch, the "graphics" tab always has the "render states" side fully open, and the "surfaces and textures" side completely collapsed. Why isn't this split evenly? Every time I want to check a surface I have to drag the tab divider to the left.
- Occasionally, but especially after resuming my computer from sleep mode, the IDE window will be "always on top." No other windows may be in front of it until I close and re-open the IDE entirely.
- Sometimes, clicking a window from the "recent windows" list will fail to do anything at all, even if the desired window is not in focus or visible (and thus the editor should animate a transition to that open window). The window is not pulled up -- it's as if the reference to the window is no longer tied to its entry in the "recent windows" list.
- Other times, moving back to a recent window through the "recent windows" list will reveal that window to now have automatically adopted a height of 0 -- only the frame of the window (with the window name and toolbar along the top) remains. This window cannot be enlarged normally (by grabbing a corner of the window and dragging out).
- One way to open this window and see the code is to maximize it, which defeats the purpose of it being a window since it now takes up the entire editor.
- The other way is to just close the window entirely. Sadly, this removes the window from the Recent Windows list, so often this means killing the code window and pulling up the object or script again through the editor, which wastes a lot of time.
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I haven't done a "Fresh install" since I started using GMS2. I assume that means not just upgrading to newer versions but actually completely removing all GMS2 data beforehand?