Hi Tim

Hope its all going well with EWB 2.07 !

Without wanting to distract you away from this and "when you have time".

In the EWB IDE:

1. Can we have another button to "toggle" the coding editor window into full screen and back again. (even with my 24 inch screen it would be much easier to see the full screen when editing code.) - an additional button near where you have the existing "show code editor" button

2. Can we another button to "Backup" the current project folder
(an additional button near where you have the existing "show code editor" button

e.g: a user defined backup folder c:\web\backups\current project folder\

But where a new folder is created with a date and time stamp each time you press it.

e.g: c:\web\backups\webcafe\2017.11.20 19.30

That would be a simple and great way to make backups on the fly from within the IDE.


Keep up the good work!


Thank you


Kamran

kamran wrote:

> 2. Can we another button to "Backup" the current project folder

An interesting idea. I think personally I'd want a simple "snapshot" to take current version, and not keep old. That's what version control is all about, and is a better option for history.

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Matthew Jones

"Matthew Jones" wrote:

An interesting idea. I think personally I'd want a simple "snapshot" to take current version, and not keep old. That's what version control is all about, and is a better option for history.

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I currently zip my EWB project and prefix the project name with the date for version control and store in an archive folder just above the output folder.

I haven't found a good way to backup the ewbide.ini file containing all the database and dataset definitions other than manually dragging this onto the zip file manually.

Anthony wrote:

> other than manually dragging this onto the zip file manually.

Can I recommend a built tool like FinalBuilder? It automates your whole build process, from compiling, making help files, uploading to FTP sites, and everything else possible. One of the steps I have in mine is to make a copy of the important files and put them in a folder for that build on my Dev server. That would be a good place to make that copy automatically each time, and then you know it is done all the time too, reliably.

I cannot emphasise how nice it is to have a build tool that takes care of things. I've had requests from customers just before I have to go home - can you just change this line to add a new option - and I can make that change, then start the build script and leave, knowing that a good solid build with all the proper steps is going to happen. Very handy for a project that you haven't touched for two years so wouldn't remember the details, and just as handy for the project you are working on every day to make things efficient.

You can, of course, compile your EWB applications with it...

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Matthew Jones