Re: Look & feel Borland Delphi 7.0

Maarten Wiltink wrote:
"Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I fail to see the real advantage of 2 monitors anyway, except the
larger screen space.

You get to have more things on-screen simultaneously. A Usenet group
message tree, and the message you're reading. Your source, Code Explorer,
and Project Manager. Your source, the call stack, locals, and watches.

To me, it is the critical enabling point that really makes the paperless
office feasible. Yes, I only _need_ one screen. That instantly means I
can use the other one for all those things I'd jot down otherwise.

Also having a form-designer and a code-editor side by side can be quite
helpful when writing code that e.g. modifies the form... I don't get how
people can live with just one screen.

Even if that one screen is is really big - it most likely is smaller and
more expensive than 2 ordinary screens. And on a single big screen the
maximizing of forms usually sucks.

Hm. Sometimes I feel the need for a third screen for the UML-designer...
but that's a different story - maybe some sort of beamer and a white
wall with ~10 m² of design-space could satisfy me there...
.

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