[Eric] eric4 - suggestions

[Detlev Offenbach]

Hello,

thanks for your suggestions. Please find some remarks below.

On Freitag, 6. Juli 2007, Matthieu TC wrote:
> Hello.
> I've been using eric4 for a couple of weeks now and I wanted to post some
> questions/suggestions for the developers. I am also open to implementing
> some fixes myself, if you want me to.
>
>   -Can I recursively add ANY file/directory to the project (txt, tmpl,
> etc..). I've been trying to do that in multiple ways but it never worked.

Yes you can. Just select the Add directory... entry of the project menu or the 
project browser context menu and check the recursive checkbox.

>
>   -It would be nice if Find definition/references would be run in a
> separate thread, and would thus be 'cancellable'.

I'll think about that. Please note, that eric 4.1 will factor these out as a 
plugin.

>
>   -Whenever I run a script within Eric4, the output goes to the shell, not
> to the log viewer.

That is done by intention. The shell is the i/o interface to the debugger 
backend.

>
>   -The project viewer always synchronizes itself with the current file in
> the editor, can I toggle that behavior?  Often, I would like to have the
> project viewer stay still when I open a file.

I'll add an option for this.

>
>   -I'm using Eric4 over a network file share, and when I lose my internet
> connection with the file share, eric4 freezes.

Do you have any idea, where in the code it freezes? I'd be very happy, if you 
could try to debug this one.

>
>
> That's it :)  Let me know what you think, and as I said, I am volunteering
> to resolve some of those annoyances.
>
> Long life to eric4,
> -mats
>

Regards,
Detlev
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Detlev Offenbach
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