This was something that I was thinking about last night. When designing a form, it would be nice to be able to select the appropriate type of control (label, textbox, button, etc.), type and have that become the caption/text for the control. Right now you do a lot of "flipping" between the workspace Tools and Properties pages.
So, for example, I select a Label control, drop it on the form (or I just select a control already on the form) and if I type a printable letter/number/symbol, the IDE automagically switches me to the property page for that control, and has me editing the Caption or Text property as appropriate.
One other suggestion as it relates to controls is when you select a control from the Tools page, when you then single-click on the form, create an instace of the control at the place you clicked with a default width and height (in other words, don't require that the user actually click and drag, although that should still work of course). This is pretty much standard behavior for form designers these days.
Quote from: Mike Stefanik on November 12, 2009, 12:03:48 PM
So, for example, I select a Label control, drop it on the form (or I just select a control already on the form) and if I type a printable letter/number/symbol, the IDE automagically switches me to the property page for that control, and has me editing the Caption or Text property as appropriate.
I believe this was similar to how VB used to work... it's been a while, I could be wrong. I like the idea, however it is one of those "I bet it will be hard for me to code." We'll see. Probably won't be able to look at this suggestion for a while because I am concentrating on bug fixes right now (and easy to implement suggestions). After 3.03 is out, I want to take some time and concentrate on educational material.
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One other suggestion as it relates to controls is when you select a control from the Tools page, when you then single-click on the form, create an instace of the control at the place you clicked with a default width and height (in other words, don't require that the user actually click and drag, although that should still work of course). This is pretty much standard behavior for form designers these days.
Yes, good idea. Right now, you can double-click on a Tool and it will appear on the Form. A single click in the Form area sounds like a good idea in order to create a new control as selected in the Tools.
Single-click control creation is now implemented.
Fix will be in v3.04.
Thats cool!
What are the chances of getting the Listview custom properties in 3.04?
Purdy Please ;)
Gary