One wish:
Ability to create folders in the Modules-view (on the right side of the IDE).
For example in the menu bar: Projects => Add New Folder.
Also in this context, the idea came up to think about introducing packages, in order to organize classes and maybe take those packages as folders - much like in (Eclipse)-Java for instance.
Ok, many might argue now: "This is not Basic-compatible syntax anymore; if one really needs such 'advanced' things as package-structures, why not better switch to Java right away ?"
Well my thougts are, if classes already have been a 'newer' feature to classic Basic-dialect, why not take the next step alike ? After all I'd see it as a rather minor leap or transition, which wouldn't harm the philosophy of basic too much, whereas being vastly helpful to organize bigger projects - and the great simpleness and productivity of B4a is still preserved. ^)
Ability to create folders in the Modules-view (on the right side of the IDE).
For example in the menu bar: Projects => Add New Folder.
Also in this context, the idea came up to think about introducing packages, in order to organize classes and maybe take those packages as folders - much like in (Eclipse)-Java for instance.
Ok, many might argue now: "This is not Basic-compatible syntax anymore; if one really needs such 'advanced' things as package-structures, why not better switch to Java right away ?"
Well my thougts are, if classes already have been a 'newer' feature to classic Basic-dialect, why not take the next step alike ? After all I'd see it as a rather minor leap or transition, which wouldn't harm the philosophy of basic too much, whereas being vastly helpful to organize bigger projects - and the great simpleness and productivity of B4a is still preserved. ^)
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