Re: Another Castalia 5/Delphi 2007 preview video

Hi Jacob,

I emailed you about this about a year ago, but never heard back. Having just watched the video, I'd like to reiterate my comments:

1) The method combo is hard to use by keyboard, since you can't just type in a method name - you need to type in the class name first. Since Castillia already knows the class I'm in, it would make sense to display only the methods of the current class. If someone wanted to go to the method of a different class, they can select it first from the class combo. Finally, add an option at the top of the class combo for classless methods and all methods, which would then display those. You could even set the method combo to display the class name after it, rather than before, and that would speed things up a lot.

2) A grey bookmark point is nearly invisible. This should be much more visible, red for instance.

3) When you press ESC to go back to the bookmark, it's hard to see where the cursor is. Some kind of notification as to where the cursor is located would help a lot. Consider some kind of animated circle that goes in to the place where the cursor has moved to.

4) Consider recolouring your hint popups. They're nice, but they're awfully bland, what with the grey and yellow. In these days of XP and Vista, expanding your colour palette to something that is asthetically pleasing can't hurt, and can often help a lot.

Some of these request may seem similar to those of another product, but let's face it, Castillia lives in the shadow of CodeRush. Filling the void that CodeRush has left is a good thing, not a bad one! :-)

I'm looking forward to seeing Castillia 5 hands-on. You're doing some stellar work, there.

--
Tim Sullivan
Unlimited Intelligence Limited
http://www.uil.net


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