bit OT, but I was thinking perhaps something along the lines of what eclipse has, where you can divide the editor into various areas as you like - all resizable etc.
That way people could please themselves.
That way people could please themselves.
Precisely. I've yet to start coding it up, but I have been thinking about it quite a bit over the past couple of weeks (while not being on holiday or watching footy or playing Naked War). The idea being to have the IDE contain whatever "GUI regions" you want, with them all resizable, etc. Then you choose to show whatever "GUI element" you want in those regions, e.g. code, help viewer, help nac, code nav, output, debug, etc. Some regions / elements will allow multiple elements inside then with a related "GUI navigator" attached : e.g. the region containing the code "element" will link to a navigator (tabber).
If you're interested, look at the type structure mindmap in the maxide2\docs folder. Any thoughts welcome!