[DrJava] Comments from the people in France

[Brian S. <bs...@ri...>]

FYI. We should go back over this list and consider them as bug/feature
requests.

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Graduate student, Rice University Department of Computer Science

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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:56:13 +0100
From: - Fabien Gandon - <Fab...@so...>
To: Brian Stoler <bs...@bs...>
Cc: Jean-Paul Roy <Jea...@un...>
Subject: Return of experience on DrJava.

Hello,


     - First of all: DrJava IS A VERY GOOD TOOL ! -
                  - I like it ! -


Today I have submitted two bug reports on Source Forge. Moreover, after
a first practical session with my students I collected some ideas for
future improvements. They should be taken as humble suggestions or "nice
to have" and nothing else. ;)

In the interactions window it would be great if we could have, by the
right side, a toolbar with:
  - a button to save the content of the interaction window
  - a button to load a previously saved interaction sequence (...)
  - a button to kill the last command (this is extremely useful when a
student makes an endless loop... and believe me : they do ;) )
  - a button to reset all interactions
  - when ESC is pressed it would be great if the current line was
emptied (eg. if you browse the history with up and down arrows you
cannot escape it and go back to an empty line)

For the top toolbar:
  - the 'Compile' button could use an icon like others
  - A run button (icon = gears) that launches the active file would be great

For the edition area:
  - line numbers (they maybe useful for exceptions)
  - selection on double clicks :  if I have in my code the text
"my_variable.getValue()" and I double click on variable, the editor
selects "variable.getValue" which is not the behavior I was expecting. I
was expecting "my_variable" to be selected.

File Menu:
  - at the end of this menu it would be nice to have the 4 last files opened

Detail: IMHO 'Previous document' and 'Next document' buttons or menu
items are not very useful. They are redundant with the list of open
files. Be careful not to add options that will make your interface too
complex while not adding much usability.

Otherwise, I insist, this is good job.

Best regards,

CU

Fabien

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