Re: ANN: VisualAda (Ada Integration for Visual Studio 2017 & 2019) release 1.3

[Jerry <list_email@icloud.com>]

On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 12:52:20 AM UTC-7, alby....@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 5:27:58 PM UTC+10, Jerry wrote:
> > On Friday, April 17, 2020 at 11:13:02 PM UTC-7, alby....@gmail.com wrote:
> > > 
> > > A short youtube video demonstrating the new capabilities can be found here
> > > 
> > > https://youtu.be/IEMROeNjluY
> > > 
> > > Alex
> > 
> > I watched your video. This is a little OT, but does Visual Studio put everything in one window with no overlap between panes?
> > 
> > Jerry
> 
> Hi Jerry
> 
> I am not exactly sure what you mean by "overlap between panes". Most, if not all
> windows in VS can be docked, pined, resized to you hearts content. My preference
> may not be what you are accustomed to, and that's OK, I was just trying to demo
> to VS users what's involved in configuring VS for an ARM build, assuming a user
> has some experience using VS.
> 
> Alex

There is a trend for several years now to make editors and IDEs, mostly cross platform and not Mac native, with only one window containing multiple panes; you can resize and move the panes within the window but you can't move them outside the window--it's all in one window. Some have tabs per pane but generally the panes don't overlap.  As a result, code windows are way too small as are all the others. You maybe get six visible lines in a terminal or REPL window. It's a little like Windows 1.0 and very bad UI design IMHO, especially for smaller screens such as are on laptop computers.

Jerry