Hyomoto
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I'm just going to jump right in and say overall I'm really into this new UI. It's different enough to cause me some hiccups here and there but I'm shocked at how quickly I am adapting to the changes. The ability to rapidly move between different tasks is a godsend. I haven't gotten around to messing with multiple work spaces much since the transition between them can be a bit jarring, but I'm sure as I get more accustomed to them that will fade. The visual scripting, heck, even just being able to switching between event tabs is awesome and a huge workflow improvement! I also love you can start a GML project and it opens straight to a code window when you pick an event! My only initial suggestion is that it would be nice if when you closed windows that it could bring everything below it up to fill in the gap, and you should be able to mouse scroll while dragging windows.
Oh, and speaking of code: the new scope highlighting is awesome. You guys completely outdid yourself with the new code editor and I have near-all praise to heap on it so far. A minor niggle is the syntax updating is a bit slow, something I assume will improve over time, but even if it doesn't, that is a tiny issue compared to the sheer improved power this thing brings to bear. The fact that you can see if a variable scope is local, instance or global coupled with auto-complete? Seriously, I'd buy the upgrade nearly JUST for this improved editor. It's great to have all this information and control at your finger-tips without flicking through window stacks or dragging things around, it's a great presentation.
I tried out the new room editor a little, but I generally code in such a way I've never really used it anyways so I apologize for not having some more feedback here. I did notice it seems like you've streamlined some of the interactions. There aren't a dozen 'clear with background color' items to uncheck, and it seems that it's now off by default which I approve of.
I also dabbled in the new image editor, but while it's functionally similar it will take a while to get used to the changes. I find it funny out of all the new UI, the image editor is the thing that I need more time with. It took me like five minutes to figure out how to resize the sprite (it was terribly easy, I'm just an idiot it seems) but it goes to show that out of everything I've touched so far the image editor feels the most different. Based on the videos I'm guessing that's one hundred percent true. Since I haven't played with it's advanced features I can't say whether or not I like it, but I will say that I definitely welcome all the added tools. I usually have Photoshop CS5 as part of my workflow mostly because of it's use of layers, so it'll be interesting to see how the new image editor stacks up. Photoshop is often like swatting a fly with a hammer with some of the edits I make.
Unfortunately, and as expected I suppose, I found a small bug pretty quickly, but I'm not sure where the tracker is so I can report it. You are taking bug submissions right now, right? Mine is pretty basic, if you declare a var as part of a for loop, GM2 treats it as a variable rather than a local variable. Considering how awesome the scoping is, that's a troublesome bug.
As a little feedback, I think the resource tree could use a little tweaking. Maybe it's just because I'm SO used to the old one, but the icons are larger than their text and it makes your list feel a bit more too open and unused, and considering we may have projects with large numbers of resources, that unused real estate could become a bit of a nuisance in an UI that is otherwise so inviting. I'll have to keep an eye on it as I use it more, maybe this is just a culture shock.
Oh, and speaking of code: the new scope highlighting is awesome. You guys completely outdid yourself with the new code editor and I have near-all praise to heap on it so far. A minor niggle is the syntax updating is a bit slow, something I assume will improve over time, but even if it doesn't, that is a tiny issue compared to the sheer improved power this thing brings to bear. The fact that you can see if a variable scope is local, instance or global coupled with auto-complete? Seriously, I'd buy the upgrade nearly JUST for this improved editor. It's great to have all this information and control at your finger-tips without flicking through window stacks or dragging things around, it's a great presentation.
I tried out the new room editor a little, but I generally code in such a way I've never really used it anyways so I apologize for not having some more feedback here. I did notice it seems like you've streamlined some of the interactions. There aren't a dozen 'clear with background color' items to uncheck, and it seems that it's now off by default which I approve of.
I also dabbled in the new image editor, but while it's functionally similar it will take a while to get used to the changes. I find it funny out of all the new UI, the image editor is the thing that I need more time with. It took me like five minutes to figure out how to resize the sprite (it was terribly easy, I'm just an idiot it seems) but it goes to show that out of everything I've touched so far the image editor feels the most different. Based on the videos I'm guessing that's one hundred percent true. Since I haven't played with it's advanced features I can't say whether or not I like it, but I will say that I definitely welcome all the added tools. I usually have Photoshop CS5 as part of my workflow mostly because of it's use of layers, so it'll be interesting to see how the new image editor stacks up. Photoshop is often like swatting a fly with a hammer with some of the edits I make.
Unfortunately, and as expected I suppose, I found a small bug pretty quickly, but I'm not sure where the tracker is so I can report it. You are taking bug submissions right now, right? Mine is pretty basic, if you declare a var as part of a for loop, GM2 treats it as a variable rather than a local variable. Considering how awesome the scoping is, that's a troublesome bug.
As a little feedback, I think the resource tree could use a little tweaking. Maybe it's just because I'm SO used to the old one, but the icons are larger than their text and it makes your list feel a bit more too open and unused, and considering we may have projects with large numbers of resources, that unused real estate could become a bit of a nuisance in an UI that is otherwise so inviting. I'll have to keep an eye on it as I use it more, maybe this is just a culture shock.
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