It would be very nice if you could add alternating background colours to DM, kinda like this.
And let us obviously change them in preferences. By default it could even have both colours the same so it'd all appear as it does currently, if you so desire, but I'd love this personally.
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Nov 16 2015, 3:53 pm
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Nov 16 2015, 4:00 pm
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Oh man, I'd like this a lot.
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I wouldn't have been on board for this, but recently I've been using an IDE that uses it standard and it does make following the flow of the code a lot easier. So, +1
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Proper text rendering a la antialiasing would be amazing too.. hm hm!(cleartype is so ugly)
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In response to Somepotato
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ClearType is actually superior to standard antialiasing; if it looks bad on your system it's because it's configured badly. (However, I will acknowledge that the way DM draws text in the editor, sometimes artifacts occur at the edge of a letter.) DM uses your system's settings for drawing text, so whether it's in ClearType or not and how that looks is something you can tweak.
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Its just preferential -- I simply prefer antialiased text to cleartype. I don't notice any cleartyping despite ClearType being enabled.
http://i.imgur.com/Sextxhz.png http://i.imgur.com/1hLck9C.png |
In response to Somepotato
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You're probably using a default bitmapped font like Courier, not even Courier New.
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Oh you're right, it is using a bitmap font. I normally use source code pr-- oh god what did it do
http://i.imgur.com/gnFyF9p.png |
In response to Somepotato
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The font you picked is a variable-width font, which DM does not support.
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In response to Lummox JR
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Haha yeah I noticed that really quickly. I suppose this has to do with how old DM is (relic of old code never changed)
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It has to do with how DM draws the text. A fixed-width font is simply assumed. It could be changed with some effort, but I've never considered it worth that effort.
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What would be nice (but I don't know if it belongs with this issue, but it has to do with coloring) is having proper syntax highlighting for .dms files.
It'd probably have to use an external library though, and then apply the syntax highlighting based on which root tag you're in (html by default, within style tags it's css, within script tags it's javascript). Is this feasible to do on the short-term? |
In response to NullQuery
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No.
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In response to Lummox JR
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Lummox JR wrote:
It has to do with how DM draws the text. A fixed-width font is simply assumed. It could be changed with some effort, but I've never considered it worth that effort. Q.Q |