11-30-2004, 12:19 AM
Well, since the other thread's in brainfart gridlock, I'll throw in a few thoughts here:
Try and focus less on "the QB ide". I mean, in dos, the blue background was the seal of quality, pretty much every Microsoft product had a blue black if it operated in text mode, but windowed in front of a desktop it just kind looks wierd. Same goes for the terminal font. Courier is well the standard for code editing nowadays, there's no shame in conforming. That's all aesthetics, and ideally you'd have font/bgcolor settings in the final version. But remember that most people who don't know QB, and a lot of people who do know QB are going to find that wierd. If you have a fetish for blue and white, then options can be there to make it look like QB's.
I like the highlighting of the present line. It could help you manage multiple-line statements and pick up on line run-on errors (or I guess in FB it'd be line cut-off errors?). Props. There's some errors with it. It pretty much just highlights the bottom line... but if it simply highlighted the present line in some way that doesn't make it stand out too much, that'd be a unique, helpful feature.
Stupid stuff, the the frames on the edge oughta be razor-thin or clearly indicate a fucntion. I imagine you could easily change that in the future, no biggie.
In its present state, I can't critique much. The stuff I do critique is all, well, aesthetic or "I want this feature", etc. If you have code attached to it, I can critique the code, and that will be more useful in making sure you can go the stretches you need to without holing yourself up in a corner at some point, though there's not much I can say in response to "I got it under control".
Try and focus less on "the QB ide". I mean, in dos, the blue background was the seal of quality, pretty much every Microsoft product had a blue black if it operated in text mode, but windowed in front of a desktop it just kind looks wierd. Same goes for the terminal font. Courier is well the standard for code editing nowadays, there's no shame in conforming. That's all aesthetics, and ideally you'd have font/bgcolor settings in the final version. But remember that most people who don't know QB, and a lot of people who do know QB are going to find that wierd. If you have a fetish for blue and white, then options can be there to make it look like QB's.
I like the highlighting of the present line. It could help you manage multiple-line statements and pick up on line run-on errors (or I guess in FB it'd be line cut-off errors?). Props. There's some errors with it. It pretty much just highlights the bottom line... but if it simply highlighted the present line in some way that doesn't make it stand out too much, that'd be a unique, helpful feature.
Stupid stuff, the the frames on the edge oughta be razor-thin or clearly indicate a fucntion. I imagine you could easily change that in the future, no biggie.
In its present state, I can't critique much. The stuff I do critique is all, well, aesthetic or "I want this feature", etc. If you have code attached to it, I can critique the code, and that will be more useful in making sure you can go the stretches you need to without holing yourself up in a corner at some point, though there's not much I can say in response to "I got it under control".