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.
Sad to hear that you find it so bad. It boils down to how you are used to working and habits, all IDE's take some getting used to, but the things you mention are easy fixes and things we can add more or less immediately.
We will look at the things you mention, and keep in mind that this is the very first version. You cannot compare with say, Delphi 12 or visual studio. You have to compare with maybe Delphi 4 in terms of functionality.
Our main focus has been on the bare-bones, getting the foundation with compiler, RTL, general form design, back-end server infrastructure, license management etc up and running. With these in place we are digging into smaller details - exactly like the things you mention.
We will have a look at your suggestions and see if we can get these fixed for the next update.
The search dialog is somewhat different in QTX, but F3 is there. The search dialog is meant to be floating. So when you search just leave it open and press F3 to move to the next item. If you close the dialog then F3 doesnt work, which is probably what you mean.
F12 focus issue has already been fixed and will be in the next update, and most likely the other issues as well.
