Minor IDE annoyance (horizontal scrolling)

[Kevin]

I can't recall if this always happened or not:

When editing a particularly long line enough to require that the scrolling code area be widened, it doesn't automatically re-adjust itself. In other words, if you add a bunch of text to the line you cannot scroll far enough to the right to see the entire line. Also, it doesn't automatically scroll horizontally so you end up typing blind.

The way I have found to fix it is to slightly adjust the overall width of the entire IDE window which resets the scroll bar.

 

[barx]

I too have noticed this, again not sure if it has always done it.

 

[Kevin]

If I recall correctly, this was supposed to have been fixed in a recent update but the problem is still there.

To duplicate:

1) Find a long line of code.
2) Slide the horizontal scroll bar all the way to the right.
3) Start typing near the end of the code line but not at the end (such as in the middle of a sentence in a message box function).
4) When the new text you are typing extends past the right edge of the code pane it does not scroll with it so you end up typing blindly.

 

[Erel]

It was not fixed yet. It is related to several optimizations done (in v2.50 if I remember correctly) in the code editor that are very important for large projects.

 

[Kevin]

I guess maybe it was a different scrolling issue then. I had to look just to make sure I wasn't losing my mind more than I have suspected.

• Bug fixes and other minor improvements (including the fix for Android 4.3 back key issue and the IDE scrolling issue).

(Last item in list: http://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/basic4android-v3-00-is-released.33495/)

 

[Erel]

This is a different issue. There was a much more annoying scrolling issue that happened when two libraries / classes with the same name were referenced. It caused the IDE to jump to the cursor position every few seconds.

 

[Kevin]

Ah, okay. I do remember reading about that now.

No big deal anyway (on the current issue), though hopefully it is an easy fix.