JADE Environment Development Ideas

As a development and testing group, we often have to create and build JADE Environments from a specific release and load with a defined schema set. All of that can be scripted except for the loading of user preferences. That appears to be the only...

JADE2018 introduced the idea of layouts. It would be useful if this could be exported/imported across different environments

When I do references on a method which is an overridden method from a super class, there is no results. To get results I need to go to the super class and do references from there to get something. Would be very useful if we can do references from...

When comparing source, using the 'Show History' and selecting a patch, there is a panel covering the bottom half of the form that I never use (still don't know what it is for). Is very hard to get rid of it because the drag is really sensitive and...

When doing a Show History on a large method, changing the version will refresh back to the top of the method. Would be useful if it retained the line number the user is looking at.

If you're using Shift+F11 to navigate through a series of methods, if you reach a method defined on an Interface there is no quick way to get a list of the class/method which implements that interface. It would be nice if either of the following c...

When 'Use History for Selection' is turned on in Preferences, the auto-complete will automatically highlight the last selected word. Which is quite cool. Here's an example of an issue, as illustrated in the picture attached. 1. I use auto-comple...

When the Jade default exception handler form's Debug button is used to display the call stack, the stack can be copied from the listbox to the clipboard by using the File menu. The entries are currently concatenated without any separators. It woul...

In Jade 2018, the Find Type dialog, accessed via F4, now allows for partial matches based on what is typed. Similarly for the Ctrl+6 and Ctrl+7 options on the class browser for property/method names. This is a significant benefit when you have a n...

See also JEDI #277 which suggests additional colours for access icons, and JEDI #119 which suggests the ability to choose a tab colour for each schema. In pre-2016 versions of Jade, the MDI tabs in the IDE were either blue or white depending on wh...