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Very nice product.
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Posts: 230 (04/08/05 12:20:32) Administrator |
Opps, the ezboards don't allow you to in HTML comments, even if it's inside a "code" block. Sorry 'bout that, if you wanna rewrite it up, please do, I'm curious to hear what you had to say
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Posts: 0 (04/25/05 12:59:09) |
Of course, I was putting XML into the forum, not HTML. I didn't think much of it.
I'll try to remember some of my comments. I've tried 10 different editors and none of them suit me. The world is too involved with XML to not have a nice simple functional usable editor. I think that the world DOES need another XML editor. It needs to be simple, and it needs to allow people to edit XML manually. Yours fits the bill. I would love to see it at about half the price and fewer bugs. I'll watch it closely. In using it, I found some things that I would like to see. I would like to see an EMBED feature, that allows me to highlight text and specify a surrounding TAG, or allow me to instantly comment it out. For the most part, I like the intelligent word stops (when using CTRL-left and CTRL-right). But I would like to see some basic tag navigation. It would be terrific if I could hit a hot key to toggle between an element's open tag and close tag, move explicitly to the open tag and explicitly to the closing tag, or move to next / previous element, or to the start of the element text, if any. It would also be nice to select / move / delete an entire element. I imagine doing all these things with hotkeys. Can there be a new document feature that includes a header and prompts for the standalone and version elements with defaults? A few bugs. I may not have the latest, so some of these might be fixed or reported already. Running version 1.0 build 2.11. READ ONLY menuitem from the editor context menu doesn't seem to do anything. In the template editor, NEW from the context menu doesn't work, but the new ICON does. If I create a document, save it, the title bar still says NEW.XML. Load a file, save it as a new filename, and the same problem. The document tab has the right name, but the titlebar doesn't. No big deal. |
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Posts: 230 (04/25/05 15:27:54) Administrator |
Ahhh, I see what you mean by "embed" now. You've mention that before in an email, but I didn't quite understand what you meant. That's not a bad idea, the "block-edit" concept. I'll see what I can do there.
Your other ideas are great. Off the top of my head, I'm seeing: - Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right = goto Element Start/End - Ctrl+Shift+LeftClick = Select entire element Promptable "new" documents, another interesting idea. I think it could be accomplished rather easily by putting in special "prompt" characters into the New text. We already use one, the Pipe character, to tell the editor where to put the cursor on new. Maybe if we added something like "::name", it could parse the name and display a prompt for the value. It's do-able, I'll put it on the to-do list. You do realize that all of the "new" text is editable? You can change the default new text, as well as add/edit to any of the templates. Bugs (and you do have the latest): - The ReadOnly check should toggle the document from, well, readonly and not. If you open a readonly file, it's checked. The bug then is it's not toggling. It's "reading" properly, just not toggling. Noted and logged. - The TemplateEditor bug, I'm not sure what you mean here. If you can elaborate - TitleBar bug. Noted and logged. And lastly, marketing. We're working on the bugs (in between other projects of course), but as for the pricing, we're getting the impression more and more that we need to use xmlHack as an "entry" point into SysOnyx's other products. Our best seller right now is xmlLinguist. xmlDraft's launch was not good (maybe due to the rebranding, who knows). xmlHack does not do well either, and it may be due to the pricing as you mentioned. One idea we're floating right now is using xmlHack as a means to the other tools from SysOnyx. Something akin to trade-show give-aways, or buy 1 get xmlHack free or at major discount, etc. As we ramp up for version 2s, see some creative marketing happen with xmlHack -BKN |
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Posts: 0 (04/26/05 12:34:42) |
I used the term Template Editor, but didn't notice that it is actually labeled Code Completion. Steps to reproduce:
1) Open XMLHack - close the nag screen if necessary. 2) From the menu, choose Tools | Options. 3) In the treeview, select Editor | Code Completion. 4) Right click on the "Code Completions" listview. You see a popup menu with the options NEW, EDIT, DELETE. New does not create a new item. I'm not sure what EDIT *should* do, other than set the focus on the edit pane, and DELETE doesn't seem to work for me, either. The corresponding newdocument and delete buttons on the right work as I expect them to. I believe that these were meant to do the same thing as the menu items I've described. |
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Bryce K Nielsen |
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Posts: 230 (04/26/05 12:53:50) Administrator |
Correct. I see them and will fix them, thanks again.
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