This has been on my mind for a while, but I never mentioned it as it is too non-critical and minor to bring up I thought. But then I just realized I might as well just mention it, in case it does get added to the todo list!
Theres a few things actually, some of them are purely personal preference - so only mentioning them in case its straightforward to add them as an option.
- I've got my tab set to 4 spaces, and quite often I find things don't line up (it was like that with 2 spaces too). I think the tab just indents by 4 spaces (or whatever) instead of pushing to the next tabstop. I know its not that big of a deal, but I like my code to look nice too
so end up fine tuning the alignments with spaces
- I'm not too keen on the way the text starts so close to the left edge, when I maximize my window and the window is on the left edge of the screen, the text is almost touching my bezel. Maybe a left margin option?
- The search/replace could definitely do with some improvement. I find myself always copy/pasting between xcode and the processing PDE. I'm not asking for full on RegExp style thing, but at least a whole words option.
- A 'currently open sketches' menu item, like what apps usually have in their 'window' menu. So you can easily switch between open sketches (and if you do go as far as a 'window' menu a 'tile horizontally' or 'tile vertically' would go down quite well too!
- I would prefer if it didn't open my last sketches that were open. I sometimes have loads of sketches open, and I shutdown processing. And usually launch processing by doubleclicking on a PDE file, so it when it opens I get all the old sketches everywhere as well as the one I doubleclicked on (and usually open twice if I had it open before).
Like I said, tiny personal requests which would just make my life (and maybe a few others) a tiny bit more comfortable. Despite these little things I mentioned, I still prefer to develop in processing than xcode... I just love the fact that it launches in a few seconds, you can type in code and press run without saving or anything... absolutely brilliant. But I thought I might just mention these to get it off my chest
cheers,