JADE Environment Development Ideas

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...

The Changed Methods option allows a date range to search for changes, it would be very useful to be able to also add a time to the date range. The time could default so that they covered the whole day . This would be useful so that different work ...

The current behavior when using the Right Click > Refactor > Extract method is as follows: exampleMethod(); vars variable : Boolean;begin variable := true;end; Then I highlight the variable := true; line and Right Click > Refactor > ...

We are making greater use of Exposures. Smaller Exposure Lists but many more of them. The Expose Browser does not allow searching, the number of Exposures we have will soon be into the hundreds so it will become increasing difficult to find them.T...

In a method with a lot of local variables it's sometimes difficult to locate a particular variable to see its value. It would be useful if the table were able to be sorted by clicking on the Name header, and maybe the Type header.

When using the Schema Inspector and drilling down to a single object, the right-hand pane is empty by default. It would be nice if it showed the whole object's display - which is possible by clicking on the ***ClassName*** entry at the top of the ...

I find the new Schema navigation quite useful though it would be more useful if when changing the schema using the new Navigation Combo box it did not default back to Object Class however it tried to stay as close to the currently viewed class as ...

When working with show inherited turned on, in a class with a large number of superclasses and methods, it can be difficult to determine on which class a given method is defined. Currently I either double click or use F12 to open a free standing m...

Is it possible to show the shortcut key in the bubble help for the Jade icons? e.g. If I hover the mouse over the bookmark icon, it would show "Bookmark (Shift + F12)"

We have had issues in the past with unnecessary creation of public methods, so we find it better if developers are defaulted to creating protected methods and must explicitly change it to public only when needed. We use the Options>Preference...