The ability to find code and text via x-ray or Code Explorer

Let us know what you would like to see in the next version of this software

Moderator: kfury77

Forum rules
Please follow these guidelines when posting feature requests. This will help to increase the value of your contribution.
  • Do not create new topics for already requested features. Add your comments to the existing feature request topics instead;
  • Create separate topic for each feature suggestion. Do NOT post a number of non-related feature suggestions in a single topic;
  • Give your topic a meaningful title. Do NOT create topics with meaningless titles, such as "My Suggestion" or "My Problem".
Please note that we DO READ all suggestions, even if a reply is not posted. Thanks!
Post Reply
simmerin
Posts: 22
Joined: Mon Aug 06, 2007 8:57 pm
Location: St. Paul, MN
Contact:

The ability to find code and text via x-ray or Code Explorer

Post by simmerin »

A key advantage of WYSIWIG even if you don't use the editor function is the ability to quickly locate code or text in a document (Dreamweaver). Looking through a long page of html to find an area you want to edit is painful. Granted you can do a search for a tag or text but that's cumbersome.

Westciv - Stylemaster has a feature like this in their x-ray, and PSPad has a great DOM Code Explorer that serves a similar function. On many levels Webuilder 2007 is much better and more usable than these programs but the inability to quickly locate a section of a page in code view is a real shortcoming.

I hope a feature like this is seriously considered for the future. It would really put Webuilder in a category of it's own - without peer.

Thanks
User avatar
Karlis
Site Admin
Posts: 3605
Joined: Mon Jul 15, 2002 5:24 pm
Location: Riga, Latvia, Europe
Contact:

Post by Karlis »

Please clarify what do you mean by a "section of the page". We have an idea of making Code Explorer searchable, but would it help?
Karlis Blumentals
Blumentals Software
www.blumentals.net
simmerin
Posts: 22
Joined: Mon Aug 06, 2007 8:57 pm
Location: St. Paul, MN
Contact:

Post by simmerin »

Karlis wrote:Please clarify what do you mean by a "section of the page". We have an idea of making Code Explorer searchable, but would it help?
Here's a screen cap from the open source program PSPad. This would enable quick location of any place or "section" on the page:
Image
Post Reply