JADE Environment Development Ideas

In the past I've tried using RTF in class text for application documentation, which seemed to work ok - at runtime I could load the RTF into a JadeRichText control and it worked well. However, when I tried to load the schema into another environme...

Let's be able to tell the difference between 0 and null, for example. Has something been set to 0 or has it not been set? I don't know!

The purpose of this JEDI is to solicit ideas for enhancing the Report Writer feature. To start with this would include include copy and paste of fields like literals and a redesign of the F6 data list to allow searching and collapsing of the struc...

The addition of an .ini option that takes a list of font paths, and calls gdi32.dll::AddFontResource for each provided font path, before the initial form is painted.

A number of teams mark every method and every line of code which is changed to implement a feature/fix with a ticketing system number. The Jade IDEs extended clipboards are very useful for storing these details as you don't lose this information l...

A frequent use of the Control::keyPress event is for things such as a 'filter' or 'quick search' text box that will filter the list of entries displayed in say a table of results on that form. This is used to provide a 'better' user experience tha...

My specific use case was to retrieve the current database usage, to see if usage was Usage_NoAudit. A JadeDatabaseAdmin method that returned various database state values in a JadeDynamicObject would be ideal.

When you delete a schema and there are instances of classes, the delete can fail with an exception from inverse maintenance. This is sub-optimal given the objective is to discard all the schema defined object instances as well. Little useful infor...

It would be nice if Call Stack Analysis showed what the process was waiting for, like waiting for a queued lock, file IO, external function, interpreter etc.

We've implemented the development security library for a couple of different purposes (source control in particular). The implementation of which has evolved over the years. How the existing hooks were originally implemented by the JADE IDE isn't ...