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An idea for less typing while adding HTML tags
This would be fine: If I want to create a new HTML-Tag, I don't have to write "< a href='abc.html' >...< /a >" (Please ignore the whitespaces I had to add them because otherwise it would be displayed as a link) but I just write "a href='abc.html'", and mides automatically converts it to what I wrote above after clicking "Add Item". How about this? Would help me ;)
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Inappropriate?That's a good idea. I'll think about how to implement something like this. The next update to Mides will be significant. The editing methods will change such that you can edit using pure text, or a tree view if the markup conforms to XML standards.
I haven't figured out yet how the new tree-view will enable adding nodes, it would probably be similar to the current method, but I'm not sure.
Sometimes I find the nesting gets in the way of quickly editing files, which is why I am trying to give people the choice of how to interact with their code. Do you like the nesting? Would you prefer a pure text view?
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Actually, pure text editing can be useful sometimes, but I very much like the nesting like it is right now. Besides, I can't really imagine how a tree-view will work on the small screen of an iPhone, do you think about something like what you see on the "web-apps"-icon on the bottom of the screen? I can't think that this will be good on the small screen. And it will probably kill the RAM if you expand all the nodes of a 400-lines-code. In my opinion, the view-based navigation is very handy. -
Inappropriate?Actually, I have another idea. A lot of work, but might be helpful. If I start typing "b", under it it shows me all html tags stating with "b", eg. "b", "body", the same way like in the app store on the iPhone. The same can be done for PHP-functions, with all the parameters listed. But: Then there's not only one field to edit the whole tag, no, in a list below, you have all attributes available for this tag, and if you click one you get a view for this attribute and you can apply the value of the attribute, for example if it's a "href"-Attribute, you can either type an address, or pick a file from the project, or a bookmark from safari.
Even more: If it's the "id" or "class" Attribute, there's a button which shows you all css files available in this project, then, if you click one, it automatically adds a ".classname {..}" to this css-file (with the name you specified of course).
And: with a lot of pickers, sliders, etc. you can make coding very simple, html, css, and anything else. very handy! But a lot of work...
I’m too creative ;)
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Inappropriate?No, actually its a really good suggestion. I just have to figure out how to do something like that without making the view insanely complicated. Thanks for all of the good suggestions.
For the tree view, I was thinking more along the lines of what is available right now, but I'm trying to figure out how to get it to fit into the new UI. The tree view should continue to function as it does now, but the overall editing interface will be overhauled.
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I think a way not to make it complicated is splitting a view into more views, easy accessible by simply tapping an option, or if I tap a setting, some kind of settings slide up from the bottom, like if I tap the "+" in Safari, but with pickers, sliders, buttons, activators, etc... And if it is too much, just split it into more views, I think that this will be also easy to understand and easy to navigate.
Oh, and I don't know whether this is only my problem, but I'd avoid using those small blue arrows wherever possible cause I always need several times to tap it, it always thinks I'm only tapping the menu button, not the arrow... And it got worse since I bought a case ;) -
Inappropriate?What if you had a suggestion system similar to the Google Mobile App? When you start typing, it starts to suggest things right above the keyboard. All you have to do is tap on it and it will fill that text in. Also, for stuff like href, could you have it automatically have it put the ' ="" ' and then put the cursor in the middle of quotes? It would also be great if you could browse through the webpages in Mides when you type src or href.
This is a great app, and I can't wait to see it get even better! -
Inappropriate?Thanks for the suggestion. I am looking at doing something along these lines, as I think it is the most sensible approach.
I really like the idea of bringing up the filenames in the system when you type src or href. -
Inappropriate?Another thing that would be nice is automatically creating the ending tag. For instance, right now when you type in ' > ' when adding an element, the program places the ' ...< ' automatically. Would there be any way of recognizing what tag you just typed in and automatically fill in ' ...< /div > ' (or whatever tag you just entered) when you type ' > ' ? The spaces in the example are just so that you can see it in this post.
I hope this makes sense.
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Inappropriate?I am working on code completion now, but there are interesting performance problems and tradeoffs to optimize before I can release it.
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