Feed back

[CarlFST60L]

Hi, just thought I would offer some feedback for the developers of Codewarrior.

I am using 5.9.0 and 7.1 for Coldfire MQX, I also use 6.1 for some 8 bit stuff.

- Dual monitor support is not much good across the board, its really not setup to work at all on dual monitors other than the 'floating' and 'docked' which is only about 1% of the way to offering dual monitor support. If you want a good example of Dual monitor support, check out eclipse, or Altium Designer.

- The debugger is poorly setup on dual monitors as the source window are locked to the data windows and restricted to inside the ide window. Even with a single, its clumbsy as the debug info is 'locked' to the source, and the source is hard to change and use to monitor the flow of the program, set break points as when you open another source, it opens over the top of the debugger!

- 64 bit support should be considered, we are forced to run VMware to allow us to debug. 64 bit is becomming the norm these days, but so is VMWare so its not so bad.

- It would be good the ide's text editor was a little more MFC / standard text editor based. You cant even hold down and arrow across to highlight while holding shift + control, even this editor on the forum can manage that! There are several other things but cannot think of them off the top of my head, its just annoying. Its like the people that developed the text editior have designed it from scratch instead of using what the rest of the world uses.

Thats enough venting for today 

Message Edited by CarlFST60L on 2009-04-17 02:27 AM

[Lundin]

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CarlFST60L wrote:
- It would be good the ide's text editor was a little more MFC / standard text editor based. You cant even hold down and arrow across to highlight while holding shift + control, even this editor on the forum can manage that!

Umm... yes you can? CW has always had this feature.

[CarlFST60L]

ummm, while this was really to point out the editior has some 'unique' operations which I am sure the developers are aware of, I do have 2 x 32 bit xp machines, 2 x 32 bit vista machines and a 32 bit VM XP machine which will not even move across more than one word at a time by holding ctrl + holding arrow, you have to 'tap' the arrow key as it does one word, then just stops for no reason.  We use this feature all the time for highlighting and copying pointers to structures, or just moving the curser across quickly across a line

pointer->tosomething->andsomething->andsomethingels->andonemore

If you start at the first character, hold down shift + control + right arrow it will just highlight until you let go of the arrow, however, do it in codewarrior and it will highlight one word and just stop.

Again, this was more so to point out there are some small but unique operations that we only see in the Codewarrior editor. It would be good if the general control and operations were just like every other windows program.

Message Edited by CarlFST60L on 2009-04-20 08:00 AM