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From: boerned@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Dan Boerner)
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Subject: Re: Think Pascal Wishes...?
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Date: 27 Sep 90 02:58:33 GMT
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Wish List:
	Allow adding of multiple files to the project file. This is
	a big one when you have to recreate a project file that has been
	corrupted during development.

	Allow selecting and dragging of multiple files in the project window.
	(I had to integrate a project with over 100 units and adding new
	units in the correct place took forever, Add to project...Drag
	with autoscroll....Add to project...Drag with autoscroll...)

	SPEEDING UP BUG CATCHING	
	Precompiled "uses" similar to the precompiled headers option in THC
	Catching one syntax bug at a time for a large file with many uses
	means watching the compiler load the uses over and over and over
	again.  Is there a way to eliminate this?

	RSRC EDITING FROM WITHIN THP
	I have to disagree with an earlier suggestion to include some rsrc
	editing features to the environment for the following reasons:
	1. A few is never enough.  The small set of rsrcs will never be 
	   adequate and cause frustration when after editing STR#s in
	   the environment you need to edit MENUs and have to leave it.
	2. Resource editors are nortoriously hard to write, we had
	   to write one for a project I was on and it ended up being
	   a bad idea.  Apple is always adding new rsrc types and you 
	   end up just reinventing the wheel.  Look at how long it has
	   taken apple to get ResEdit 2.0 out.
	3. Under MF I have no trouble quickly switching back and forth
	   between THP and ResEdit.
	4. Do what your good at.  Since were moving toward smaller programs
	   that work together (mini-apps) and away from swiss-army knife
	   programs I think it makes more sense to move toward a day when
	   a program like THP can use AppleEvents to send a msg to ResEdit
	   saying "Hey, edit this rsrc".  


	Another vote for:
		Exporting with styles (bolding) intact.
		Split Screen Editor window.
		Line wrapping option
		Debugger Conditional breakpoints

That's all for now, thanks for asking...

Dan Boerner
PhD Student @ Oregon State University
boerned@mist.cs.orst.edu