[futurebasic] Requests

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From: Jay Reeve <jktr@...>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 01 12:58:15 -0600
Staz,

I think these may be already on your list, but if not, would you please 
consider adding them? (These are for _after_ your vacation and some other 
higher-priority items.)

1. I think the MOST useful addition you could make to the editor would be 
a popup menu in the header area to show all the FNs in the current 
project that call the current FN (shown in the header). If a selection is 
made from the menu, a window would be opened or scrolled to the first 
line in that FN where it is called, and the FN name selected so cmd-H 
could be used to find subsequent calls in the same FN

2. It would be enormously helpful for FIND to change the header in each 
found window to show the name of the function where the target was found 
(just as it shows the FN of the cursor location when in the window). This 
would avoid repeated clicks between windows to find out what FN that is.

3. If a window _opened_by_ FIND has never become the active (front) 
window, I think FIND should close it before opening the next file to 
search. I don't know how difficult this would be--maybe it would be 
better to say if the window isn't dirty--but it would sure cut down on 
the litter of windows that weren't the one you were looking for. I can't 
think af any real advantage to having them left open.

4. There should be a way for the debugger to access the area where 
register vars are stored when a new FN is called, or to keep its own 
record of register values, so when you click one of the calling FNs in 
the FN Stack window, the true variable values from that FN can be 
displayed instead of the current (new) register values.

Thanks,

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