We've added yet another cool usability enhancment for FinalBuilder 4 - the Project tab. The project tab uses a tree control to display the various action lists, scripts and variables in the current project, as you can see here:
The main reason this tab was introduced was that if you have more than a few extra action lists (in this case there are four extra ones: Do Compiles, Installer, Help Files and Doco, and Deployment Stuff), then it's a real pita to reorder them - you have to right click on the tab you want to reorder, and then select “Move Left“ or “Move Right“ and the tab will move along to the left or right by one. Now, just imagine you have 50 or 100 action lists and you want to move a tab from one end to the other! (yes, I know some of you don't have to imagine because you do actually have this many...).
So, we needed an alternate view of the action lists in your project, including a much better way to reorder and select them. Double-clicking on an action list in the tree will select it, you can drag and drop action lists around to reorder them, or use the Ctrl-Up or Ctrl-Down keys, or even use the right-click context menu, or even use the Up and Down arrows! Hopefully we've covered all bases here :)
Other functions on the project tab include:
- Easy way to bring up the Global Script editor dialog
- Easy way to bring up the Variables Editor dialog
- Easy way to view project, user, environment and system variables (including their default values)
- Easy way to add a new variable, or edit an existing one
It's one of those features that once you start using it, you wonder how you lived without it...