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Quanta is cool.
by Michael on Tuesday 22/Apr/2003, @00:09
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I use it all the time now for PHP editing. It's the small things that are realy helpful. Like automatic variable completion. You use a long variable name (like $number_of_records) once and the next time you type $nu... you just have to press enter to get the whole variable name. Pretty cool. Syntax colouring has also been fixed what I'm still missing is the ability to select a different colour for <? and ?> which is important for mixed HTML/PHP documents. Furthermore the file selector is still a mess and "automatically" undocks all of a sudden due to a bug.
Something like in HomeSite (press F9 to open, click one or more files to open, press F9 to close again) would be nice. Currently I mapped Ctrl+Q to "Open" and made the Open dialogue window full screen. The maximized state is fortunately saved. Now I press Ctrl+Q which
is easier to do with the left hand only than Ctrl+O and can select a file. The bad points about
this workaround are: You cannot open various files at once (except clumsily using
Ctrl to select multiple files and this works only in the same folder) and Quanta forgets about the last folder next time and chooses the folder the current file is in. Sometimes not even that.
This is the only real bad point I can say about Quanta. Otherwise everyone who hasn't tried it yet for PHP should definitively give it a spin. |
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Re: Quanta is cool.
by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 22/Apr/2003, @01:45
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Have you tried project views? You can set your current group of files and loaded toolbars as a view. You can open and close all the files at once from the menu while simultaniously loading and unloading the toolbars. Get the files you want open and define your view. You can add or remove files from a view too. Why muck with all those selections when you can make a group to single click.
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Re: Quanta is cool.
by Martin on Tuesday 22/Apr/2003, @03:06
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Thanks for your answer but this is not what I need.
I do not want to open a group of files at once that I have
predefined before. I need a better way of opening
various files across folders that I need on that day
all of a sudden.
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Re: Quanta is cool.
by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 22/Apr/2003, @03:19
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Would the file upload tree widget be better suited? We could create a multiple file open from it's selection output listed from project files...
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Re: Quanta is cool.
by Michael on Tuesday 22/Apr/2003, @05:45
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Why so complicated? The only IMO simple thing I'm requesting here
is the ability to open and hide a file selector with separate folder
and file view on key press. In HomeSite you can press F9, the source code
gets narrower and docked on the left hand side there is a file selector which
disappears when you press F9 again. It's so simple it's difficult to describe
it better. This is something I really miss and the functionality is basically
already there in Quanta. But there are some bugs in Quanta which prevent me from
doing this. I would be really glad if you fixed this one day. But even without
that it's a fine product, so I'm patient.
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Re: Quanta is cool.
by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 22/Apr/2003, @06:13
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You're talking making the file tree on the left collapsable? This is something we've wanted to get to for some time. We may be adapting some of the UI functionality of Gideon too. At least one developer has expressed interest in doing that.
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