• Clicking on a texture in the texture browser only sets the texture for the first sidedef, even if the cursor was placed in one of the fields for the second sidedef.
  
• Likewise, clicking on a flat only sets the floor texture, regardless of which field the cursor had been in.
  
• The editor has to be closed after building nodes. I'm not sure if there's a technical reason for that, but it really interrupts your workflow if you test your stuff often.
  
• Like you already said, the GUI file open dialog could use some work. Particularly selecting the iwad and port to use.

• I really think you should consider ditching the DEU-style insert key to insert vertices/sectors/things. You're already using the mouse for these, so the most logical thing to use is one of the mouse buttons. I think you could do this without losing any existing functionality, by making clicks context sensitive. If you're hovering over something, select it, otherwise insert a new one. (This is particularly for vertices and things, can't say I've ever used the sector insert option.)
  
• Adding onto that context-sensitivity thing, I think you could get away with merging vertex and line modes into a single mode. Right now I draw my lines in vertex mode and only going into line mode to do everything else. It doesn't seem like there's any real need for two separate modes. (Doom Builder is similar in this regard, since you can draw lines, make sectors, and insert vertices in both sectors and lines mode. Always seemed redundant to me.)
  
• I think multi-select mode should be default, rather than having to hold ctrl. Since it's so easy to deselect in this editor (although my click to insert suggestion might complicate that), I think it would improve workflow. More often than not I find myself selecting multiple lines/things and setting their properties at once.
  
• I think the snap size for insert vertices should be a bit larger. Right now it's hard to get them on an angled line, even at the smaller grid sizes (16x16, 8x8 - smallest I commonly work with).
  
• Please add an option to disable automatic texture alignment.

• I'm really not digging the grid in this. I prefer to have solid grid lines, like simple mode, but with a special color for the 64x64 flat grid when using other sizes. User-defined special grids would be cool (for example, if you were working on a 1024 map, you could set up a 1024x1024 grid and have that, your normal grid, and the 64x64 flat grid on at the same time.)
  
• I'd like to be able to customize line and grid colors.
  
• Being able to see line lengths while drawing would be nice.
  
• The upper and lower sidedefs are backwards to what I'm used to. Not that big of deal, but they should probably be labeled.
  
• Clicking on a texture in linedef mode or a flat in sector mode should open the browser panel if its not already open, and set that texture/flat as the one to be replaced.
  
• Being able to change the size of the texture/flat previews in the browser would be nice.
  
• The thing editing panel should have a radial layout for setting the thing's angle. (DB uses radio buttons in a circle.)

• Having fully customizable controls would make some of the following redundant.
  
• I'd like to see flipping linedefs moved to f (free placement could be made F instead), it's such an intuitive key.
  
• 3D preview mode should have an option to use a standard WASD + mouse movement scheme. Would require moving w and s functionality to other keys, but would improve workflow in 3D mode dramatically. I suggest stealing DB's g for walk mode (it calls it toggle gravity), maybe p for sprites?
  
• 3D preview should just grab the mouse, to make moving around easier, rather than having to hold down right click. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you can't actually do any editing while in 3D mode, so losing the ability to move over to the panels isn't a big deal, and 3D mode can be toggled off to use menus and such.
  
• Walk mode should be a toggle, essentially allowing you to move around your map as you would in-game.
  
• I keep hitting esc to exit out of 3D preview mode and get the dialog to exit the editor instead. Maybe make esc context sensitive, closing whatever is currently open? (I honestly can't remember the last time I used esc to exit a program directly. In games it usually opens the menu, it most programs I use it doesn't do anything.)

• Panels! I already mentioned these, but once there's more functionality for selecting what you want to replace, these are going to make editing so much faster. They remind me of the inspectors Romero mentioned when he was describing DoomEd.
  
• c to quick copy properties from the selection to whatever you're hovering over. This functionality is completely missing in DB2 by default, which is ridiculous since it speeds up workflow so much, and even with the plugin it's not as easy as Eureka's method.
  
• A 3D preview that actually gives a good idea of how your lighting will look in-game. If you get support showing sector effects (as an option, I could see them getting really annoying), this will be perfect.

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Dragonsbrethren said:

• Clicking on a texture in the texture browser only sets the texture for the first sidedef, even if the cursor was placed in one of the fields for the second sidedef.

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andrewj said:
Texture browser: originally I planned to drag-n-drop the textures from the browser onto the sidedef part, but that is very difficult to code with FLTK, so another plan was to click on a sidedef part (might be shown with a red border) then click on the texture to copy it there. But what I ended up doing was a left click would set the LOWER, middle click would set the MIDDLE, and right click would set the UPPER -- and it would choose the side which was actually visible (e.g. where the floor is lower than the back) -- and you hold SHIFT key to set the opposite side. An extra bit of logic is that if the upper and lower are the same and you left click, it will change both -- good for windows. For sectors you left click for the floor and right click to set the ceiling.

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boris said:
Also you really need to make the texture browser scroll faster with the mouse wheel. I have to scroll about half a dozen "clicks" to scroll past one texture.

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andrewj said:
Congrats printz for getting it to compile and run!

I remember that MacOSX supplies a funny argument to programs, something like -psn with a id number attached (i don't remember exactly). If you can tell me what the option is, I can add the code to ignore it.

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The lag thing -- I vaguely remember hearing about that, it's something to do with the video system in the latest MacOSX OSes, perhaps the "retina" stuff. There is a way to turn it off and the program will run normally. I guess google around, and if it requires some extra code then I'm happy to add it.

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P.S. LibSDL has some MacOSX handling stuff in it, see src/main/macosx/SDLMain.m
(the .m means an objective-c file, as you probably know)

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andrewj said:

BTW your pic isn't showing.

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printz said:
Does Eureka use multiple windows (a window per document)?

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Do not use MACOSX as a predefined preprocessor variable; use __APPLE__ [see here scrolling down to MacOS].

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* on OSX, redo is commonly CMD-SHIFT-Z, not CMD-Y
* similarly, CMD-H is usually mapped to hiding the window. Here, however, it changes the grid. Probably not worth bothering with, however, as having familiar H for the grid is more important.
* multi-selecting objects is currently done with CTRL. Could it be changed to CMD for __APPLE__, similar to how menu commands are already remapped to CMD? Or use SHIFT as it's more familiar from WinDEU.
* is scrolling meant to zoom in and out?
* ESC quits the app. Since it's so easy to press just to deselect things or get out of unwanted situations, it shouldn't close the program.

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andrewj said:

Not quite sure what you mean.

Eureka can only handle one wad/map at a time, though you can have multiple instances of Eureka running at the same time.

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For 'nil' : can I rename it to 'Nil' ?

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Scrolling the mouse wheel is meant to zoom in and out.

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ESC quitting the app is default behavior for FLTK programs, but I'm going to disable it.

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I'm not sure how CMD needs to be handled, do you know which modifier key FLTK converts it to? It will either be FL_ALT, FL_META or FL_CTRL. I will need to do some research on it....

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printz said:
If it's scrolling too fast, can I change it in config. settings? I saw some percentages there, they seem to be implemented.

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