JADE Environment Development Ideas

In Jade we are often assigning values in bulk. Quite a few languages allow the developer to shortcut placing in the reference name each time making it not only quicker but it lowers the risk of putting in the wrong reference name. Which can easily...

When writing a conditional you write it like this:if name = "apple" or name = "banana" or name = "carrot" thencould we shorten this by doing:if name = "apple" or "banana" or "carrot" then

Although the JADE IDE does allow a developer to bind code to an accelerator key, the number of bindings is limited and bound accelerator keys are not easily discoverable. Support for the creation of static and expansion code snippets which could b...

When using JadeMethodContext awaiter the expectation is to call waitForMethods to "wait" with for the invoked task to complete. Because my task is a long running process, I have noticed the timer (created on the same instance that created the Jade...

In Jade we often have integer constants that are merely used as a unique identifier. e.g. CustomerType_Personal = 1; CustomerType_Prospect = 2; CustomerType_Business = 3. If we have a value to add we require to sort constant values by number, th...

I think this would only work for Booleans, but often I add a Boolean field to a persistent class, and more often than not, I want it set to true by default. It would be great if this "default" value could be defined so that when the reorg happened...

We have many cases where we need to check if some text is included in a String. We would use: if name.pos("smith",1) > 0 thenendif; It would be nice if there was an includesText() method on String so this could change to: if name.includesText("...

According to Jade Help the "where" Clause is only optimised for the following: "In the forward direction, the expressions key > value or key >= value are optimized." "In the reverse direction, the expressions key < value or key <= valu...

In the 2020 release we are introducing support for Generic Interfaces. This feature is described in JEDI Idea: JAD-I-429 The JAD-I-429 feature set includes new RootSchema interfaces such as JadeIterableIF<T output> (equivalent to the .NE...

Historically, it was possible for controls to be deleted from a form but not all of the control's event methods were deleted. This has been fixed, but existing orphaned methods may occasionally cause schema load failures because the control is unk...