Feedback (Suggestion) A List of Desired Improvements

[Ianuarius]

I've used GMS2 a little bit and have been compiling a list of little things that would make my day-to-day smoother.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18c51JebL3nq9V2tVA90l0sBNf9RavG1PmLhy0thxLAs/edit?usp=sharing

If there already is a solution for any of these and I just don't know about it, could you kindly point it out to me, please?

Thanks.

 

[T-bond]

I have already reported the syntax checker bug, and you should report the others too.
Fortunately the compiler can use the functions without the optional parameters given to it, so it is just the IDE's (or more precisely the syntax checker's bug)

 

[rwkay]

OK looking through your list

General Issues
* Context??? not sure where you saw that message if it from the runner then was it just an error message (it should have printed a source file and line number where the error occurred, and a stack trace for context)
* Agreed Room Creation Code could do with some attention it is on our list too

Bugs
* File them if you want us to look at them goto Help -> Report a bug

Feature Requests (+ Keyboard and Options)
* Same file them as suggestions on the Help -> Report a bug
but...
* You can do box selects already ALT+Mouse move or ALT+SHIFT+cursor keys will select box regions
* press F7 and F8 to increase and decrease the font size in the Text Editor (just like GMS1)
* I believe that we have just added for the next public release a scalar value for altering the scroll speed

Russell

 

[Agneum]

Agree with most other feature requests, the would be great additions.
"Double-clicking a word should instantly select the word, but instead there’s a very long delay that at first made me wonder if double-clicking text even worked."

The performance doesn't seem the best. I also experience that variable lookup is a tad too slow, even though I found out it was using a hash table. I wonder why this might be, since I have a beastly PC.

Auto-fill statements with TAB is great, would speed some things up, would also be great to edit snippets right in the editor instead of pressing F2 and preselecting. Taking insipration from other editors. Keyboard shortcuts could help jump between tabs, ctrl+1 might jump to the first tab?