Oh man!

It's the little things in life that make me happy. Do you know what little features I'm proud of in r4?

1) The mode switch buttons are keyboard accessible on Windows, same with the disclosure widgets

2) The window editor is keyboard accessible.

  2a) You can highlight a control in the list, hit enter to have it put on the window

  2b) You can move the control around on the window with the arrow keys.  Hold down shift to move it faster.

  2c) You can tab to different controls and the window itself with the tab/shift-tab keys

  2d) You can edit the properties for a control by hitting Alt+Enter

All of that works exactly how I'd expect it to in any Win32 application. The only thing that annoys me is getting back to the controls list from the form editor itself. You can't shift tab back to it, you have to Alt+Enter, then tab back around to it in the control order.

3) Right clicking on items in the code editor has a contextual menu that makes sense. For instance, I can find what's in the current selection, or go to the language reference for what's under the cursor. What's more, the LR help is contextual. So it figures out the type of the token under the cursor and suggests that as what to jump to!

There are little things like this in r5 as well. Like the fact that the code editor honors the Insert key on Windows, and the method declaration field is an auto-completing combobox which fills out appropriate information. (Note, since r5 is not released, these things may be pulled.)

None of these things really make the IDE unusable (to me), but it's just nice to try them out and have them work. You don't really think about that sort of thing since it *is* working. You only notice them when you try something out and it doesn't work.

So what sort of things have you been pleasantly surprised to find working with RB2005?