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This thread is to share Studio 2's Hits and Misses, what's been added, how you like it, what's been removed, how it affects you, things that annoy you, things that make you life better!
Warning, there will be more misses mentioned because well, we all know the good parts of the update...
Workspace:
Hit: Showing everything and zooming in and out and panning
Hit: Contextual use of ctrl-mouse wheel over workspace item
MISS: Ctrl-Mouse wheel over code editor not changing font size
MISS: Would like to scroll the workplace with left mouse or right mouse. Mouse wheel is uncomfortable and error prone causing unwanted zooms
MISS: Would like to fling scroll/pan around
MISS: Could enable anti-aliasing for smoother font when zoomed in and out
Resource Treeview
Hit: Much better in general
MISS: Not respecting my windows setting for double-click to open and slow double click to change text, fact this omission is pretty much all over the UI
MISS: Missing hot key for duplicating an item
Code Editor:
HIT: Much better
MISS: Can't resize the font (ctrl+mouse wheel)
MISS: Not respecting the windows standard for selection ESPECIALLY with the mouse actions
MISS: Default size is too tall and you cant see the status line with the function parameters
MISS: Not respecting my windows double click settings
Room Editor
HIT: Too many to list, you guys, great job
MISS: No alternate ctrl or shift on mouse resize and rotate to lock the 2 sides or snap to a grid or angle.
MISS: Like the workplace, middle button is annoying to move the room around because that button is also the mouse wheel so, obviously unwanted zoom ins and outs occur when moving around
MISS: A proper tools for mode change, allowing to say choose the select tool so I can select a region of instances...
That's all for today, add your own to the list!
Items mentioned in the comments
MISS: space + left mouse button for moving workspace canvas is POINTLESS because the moving can only be done when you click the workspace canvas so the modifier is useless. Have left button act like middle button for moving canvas and be done with it
MISS: Can't move the workspace canvas when I can't click the workspace canvas background (windows in the way) No doubt space + left button was initially made for this but broke in the code editor. Have the ALT key be used as move modifier...
MISS: Could code errors be reflected in the events area as well and in the object (tree view) maybe, to make it easier to track them down?
MISS: No code folding. would be nice to have folding on /* */ and { } and also to have user defined start and end fold tags
MISS: Ctrl-Mouse Wheel does not resize the font
MISS: Treeview and lists don't respond to keyboard character inputs. Hitting C in the font list in the font property, for example, does not scroll to the C-Fonts
MISS: Many Windows Standards are not followed in general for many tiny little details which is aggravating
MISS: The Syntax Error does not update properly, Showing me an error in my line when the error is in fact resolved
MISS: Code Syntax Checker is unaware that the compiler supports the split text... The code is perfectly fine and compiles while the syntax checker complains
MISS: Clicking an event brings the code into view but does not set the focus to the code box. Code box should get input focus with the carret set at the position I left it
MISS: Caret not positioning itself properly when you click a word/character as it did in studio 1.4
HIT: Background layers can have a speed set in the level editor. This makes it very easy to make moving clouds.
MISS: The level editor only lets you enter integer numbers for the hspeed and vspeed, so with the minimum speed of 1, my clouds are moving way too fast!
HIT: background layers can tile horizontally.
HIT: Code editor recognises user created variables.
MISS: Font looks yuck and colour scheme looks yuck for code editor
HIT: crop to selection in the image editor
MISS: in the image editor, I would like it if it scrolled when I was using the selection tool and my mouse was the edge of the screen. (I don't know if that makes sense). That would make precise selection of big images much easier.
Warning, there will be more misses mentioned because well, we all know the good parts of the update...
Workspace:
Hit: Showing everything and zooming in and out and panning
Hit: Contextual use of ctrl-mouse wheel over workspace item
MISS: Ctrl-Mouse wheel over code editor not changing font size
MISS: Would like to scroll the workplace with left mouse or right mouse. Mouse wheel is uncomfortable and error prone causing unwanted zooms
MISS: Would like to fling scroll/pan around
MISS: Could enable anti-aliasing for smoother font when zoomed in and out
Resource Treeview
Hit: Much better in general
MISS: Not respecting my windows setting for double-click to open and slow double click to change text, fact this omission is pretty much all over the UI
MISS: Missing hot key for duplicating an item
Code Editor:
HIT: Much better
MISS: Can't resize the font (ctrl+mouse wheel)
MISS: Not respecting the windows standard for selection ESPECIALLY with the mouse actions
MISS: Default size is too tall and you cant see the status line with the function parameters
MISS: Not respecting my windows double click settings
Room Editor
HIT: Too many to list, you guys, great job
MISS: No alternate ctrl or shift on mouse resize and rotate to lock the 2 sides or snap to a grid or angle.
MISS: Like the workplace, middle button is annoying to move the room around because that button is also the mouse wheel so, obviously unwanted zoom ins and outs occur when moving around
MISS: A proper tools for mode change, allowing to say choose the select tool so I can select a region of instances...
That's all for today, add your own to the list!
Items mentioned in the comments
MISS: space + left mouse button for moving workspace canvas is POINTLESS because the moving can only be done when you click the workspace canvas so the modifier is useless. Have left button act like middle button for moving canvas and be done with it
MISS: Can't move the workspace canvas when I can't click the workspace canvas background (windows in the way) No doubt space + left button was initially made for this but broke in the code editor. Have the ALT key be used as move modifier...
MISS: Could code errors be reflected in the events area as well and in the object (tree view) maybe, to make it easier to track them down?
MISS: No code folding. would be nice to have folding on /* */ and { } and also to have user defined start and end fold tags
MISS: Ctrl-Mouse Wheel does not resize the font
MISS: Treeview and lists don't respond to keyboard character inputs. Hitting C in the font list in the font property, for example, does not scroll to the C-Fonts
MISS: Many Windows Standards are not followed in general for many tiny little details which is aggravating
MISS: The Syntax Error does not update properly, Showing me an error in my line when the error is in fact resolved
MISS: Code Syntax Checker is unaware that the compiler supports the split text... The code is perfectly fine and compiles while the syntax checker complains
MISS: Clicking an event brings the code into view but does not set the focus to the code box. Code box should get input focus with the carret set at the position I left it
MISS: Caret not positioning itself properly when you click a word/character as it did in studio 1.4
HIT: Background layers can have a speed set in the level editor. This makes it very easy to make moving clouds.
MISS: The level editor only lets you enter integer numbers for the hspeed and vspeed, so with the minimum speed of 1, my clouds are moving way too fast!
HIT: background layers can tile horizontally.
HIT: Code editor recognises user created variables.
MISS: Font looks yuck and colour scheme looks yuck for code editor
HIT: crop to selection in the image editor
MISS: in the image editor, I would like it if it scrolled when I was using the selection tool and my mouse was the edge of the screen. (I don't know if that makes sense). That would make precise selection of big images much easier.
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