VC++ Suggsetions v 1
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Here's my first round of suggestions for VC++ 7/ I'm trying to avoid simply saying "throw the damn thing out and start over"; these are intended to be somewhat less drastic. I hope someone from teh VC++ team is reading. - Restore original VC double-click behavior in resource editor. According to most UI guidelines, a double-click should correspond to what the user is most likely to want to do after selecting an object. Creating an arbitrary member function is not the next thing I want to do after I click on a control in the resource editor; the next thing I want to do is to edit the properties. If I double click prior to editing the properties, the member function that is added will have the temporary control ID in the finction name - OnClickButton2, for example, rather than OnClickDeleteButton. And so it must be deleted, manually. - Add some way to disable Dynamic Help entirely I have no use for Dynamic Help, yet the window appears in my IDE at unpredictable times when I access the help system. Because my monitor is only 19", I don't have a lot of extra screen space for unused windows, and it's annoying to have to close this window every time it appears. - Add some way to disable the tree view's tracking of the currently selected file. This is beyond annoying; it's of no value and slows me down.
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Here's my first round of suggestions for VC++ 7/ I'm trying to avoid simply saying "throw the damn thing out and start over"; these are intended to be somewhat less drastic. I hope someone from teh VC++ team is reading. - Restore original VC double-click behavior in resource editor. According to most UI guidelines, a double-click should correspond to what the user is most likely to want to do after selecting an object. Creating an arbitrary member function is not the next thing I want to do after I click on a control in the resource editor; the next thing I want to do is to edit the properties. If I double click prior to editing the properties, the member function that is added will have the temporary control ID in the finction name - OnClickButton2, for example, rather than OnClickDeleteButton. And so it must be deleted, manually. - Add some way to disable Dynamic Help entirely I have no use for Dynamic Help, yet the window appears in my IDE at unpredictable times when I access the help system. Because my monitor is only 19", I don't have a lot of extra screen space for unused windows, and it's annoying to have to close this window every time it appears. - Add some way to disable the tree view's tracking of the currently selected file. This is beyond annoying; it's of no value and slows me down.
Jim A. Johnson wrote: According to most UI guidelines, a double-click should correspond to what the user is most likely to want to do after selecting an object. Creating an arbitrary member function is not the next thing I want to do after I click on a control in the resource editor; the next thing I want to do is to edit the properties. Thats usually a one-time thing though; so the most commonly done operation after selecting a button would be to edit the code. I agree with your other two points though :) James Simplicity Rules!
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Here's my first round of suggestions for VC++ 7/ I'm trying to avoid simply saying "throw the damn thing out and start over"; these are intended to be somewhat less drastic. I hope someone from teh VC++ team is reading. - Restore original VC double-click behavior in resource editor. According to most UI guidelines, a double-click should correspond to what the user is most likely to want to do after selecting an object. Creating an arbitrary member function is not the next thing I want to do after I click on a control in the resource editor; the next thing I want to do is to edit the properties. If I double click prior to editing the properties, the member function that is added will have the temporary control ID in the finction name - OnClickButton2, for example, rather than OnClickDeleteButton. And so it must be deleted, manually. - Add some way to disable Dynamic Help entirely I have no use for Dynamic Help, yet the window appears in my IDE at unpredictable times when I access the help system. Because my monitor is only 19", I don't have a lot of extra screen space for unused windows, and it's annoying to have to close this window every time it appears. - Add some way to disable the tree view's tracking of the currently selected file. This is beyond annoying; it's of no value and slows me down.
Actually, the default behavior in VC 6 was to create/edit a function, which I also think is silly. You had to change that through the options dialog, so see if there's an option for it in v7. --Mike-- Buy me stuff! (Link fixed now) Like the Google toolbar? Then check out UltraBar, with more features & customizable search engines! My really out-of-date homepage Big fan of Alyson Hannigan and Jamie Salé. Sonork - 100.10414 AcidHelm
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Here's my first round of suggestions for VC++ 7/ I'm trying to avoid simply saying "throw the damn thing out and start over"; these are intended to be somewhat less drastic. I hope someone from teh VC++ team is reading. - Restore original VC double-click behavior in resource editor. According to most UI guidelines, a double-click should correspond to what the user is most likely to want to do after selecting an object. Creating an arbitrary member function is not the next thing I want to do after I click on a control in the resource editor; the next thing I want to do is to edit the properties. If I double click prior to editing the properties, the member function that is added will have the temporary control ID in the finction name - OnClickButton2, for example, rather than OnClickDeleteButton. And so it must be deleted, manually. - Add some way to disable Dynamic Help entirely I have no use for Dynamic Help, yet the window appears in my IDE at unpredictable times when I access the help system. Because my monitor is only 19", I don't have a lot of extra screen space for unused windows, and it's annoying to have to close this window every time it appears. - Add some way to disable the tree view's tracking of the currently selected file. This is beyond annoying; it's of no value and slows me down.