Suggestions and backer debates - Quartex Pascal Forum

Problems with the IDE

macc2010 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 02:25:37 +0000

Hello,

I've been following your posts and progress on Quartex Pascal for many years.

I've been very disappointed with the IDE. It's a shame that, for example, it can't be used with the keyboard:

Control + F to search, but F3 doesn't work.

The IDE doesn't have keyboard shortcuts to open units/forms with names you already know.

Pressing F12 switches between the source code and the designer, but if you have focus in the code editor, you lose it after pressing F12.

For me, it makes it unusable; I don't feel comfortable with this IDE. It's a shame. It would have been more interesting to use a Visual Studio Code derivative to create a good IDE.

This is just my opinion, but I've used many editors and IDEs in 34 years of programming, and this is the worst I've tried.

Thanks.

Create A New Project

PLille — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:04:34 +0000

It's really hard to read dark blue and black on dark grey.

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Interrupt started program within the QTX IDE

Ed van der Mark — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 12:09:04 +0000

Sometimes a started program must be interrupted because of a endless loop. Is there a possibility to interrupt this program by hitting a button (not yet defined) in the QTX IDE?

Removing built-in browser

Jon Lennart Aasenden — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 09:23:15 +0000

As the RTL is now moving into more and more HTML5 based features, the old HTML4 miniblink browser has reached the end of it's capacity.

I will be removing this from our codebase since it quite frankly offers no real benefit over opening a project in the system default browser (Chrome, Firefox or Edge).

The only benefit an embedded browser can have, is that we can design it so that it would fit 1:1 layout of mobile applications and various display sizes for different phones. However, this is something that modern browser now support out of the box when you open the browser development tools, so the need for this type of embedded browser has become less and less.

I move to remove Miniblink completely, and instead stick to the system browser when running your applications. When doing a rebuild of changes, you can then just refresh the browser to see the changes - leaving the devtools open.

/Jon