JADE Environment Development Ideas

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

This is all on the class browser. When changing between property/constant views on a class (All/Attr/Ref/Const/Cntrl), the methods listbox gets reset, and the user prompted to save any changes to the current method, and the class details displayed...

There should be an option to re-use an existing open class browser window. If I do a search for a class - e.g. Customer, using F4, if there's already a class browser open on the class, switch focus to that browser rather than opening a new class b...

There are many times that I wanted to compact only the files in a DB that had free space (so as not to waste time). This is possible manually by performing a free space check on all files and then selecting only the files with free space to compac...

Jadload remembers some settings but not all, it would be nice if they were all remembered. I submitted this as an NFS in 2006 (#40260).

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...

Dynamic data masking - limits sensitive data exposure by masking it to non-privileged users. It can be used to greatly simplify the design and coding of security in your application. This is already available in MS SQL server. https://docs.microso...

It is great to see that the logged in user can set the default app in the IDE's bottom RHS status bar. However it would be useful to also be able to set the default schema too. This way, all the developer would need to do to run the desired app is...

Please add memory consumption info for each node into Monitor. This would presumably include Private Working Set and Commit Size. Also, if feasible, memory consumption per process would be useful too - method cache, string pool, local heaps, trans...

Essentially the idea is to have a method like the create and delete methods that Jade calls as part of an edition change to a collection. The Collection objects have an Edition which is updated whenever a collection is changed, if as a result of t...