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Re: PHP IDE for windows
« Reply #30, on September 12th, 2011, 02:35 PM »
I'm not writing PHP, but I'm writing JavaScript. Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express is strangely good. Then again, all I need and want is autocompletion, and it seems MVWD does that quite nicely...

I haven't tried with PHP yet, but it's fairly blissful for JavaScript. I promise I won't get dragged into the MS monopoly though, my primary testing platform is Aurora (Firefox) and secondary is Opera.

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Re: PHP IDE for windows
« Reply #31, on September 12th, 2011, 03:29 PM »
Quote from Nao on September 12th, 2011, 07:48 AM
Does it always have a frame around the code window?
Ultimately I ditched n++ just for that... :^^;:
What do you mean with "frame around the code window"?

You can drag code tabs out of the main window onto the desktop and make them top level windows as you wish. See attached screen shots - first is the complete IDE (it's actually very customizable, all the panels can be set to auto-hide so they'll go away when you don't need them) and the second one is an additional top level window holding just 2 code tabs.

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Re: PHP IDE for windows
« Reply #32, on September 12th, 2011, 03:30 PM »
There's no frame around the code window there ;)

(Take a look at N++ screenshots and you'll see what we mean.)
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Re: PHP IDE for windows
« Reply #33, on September 12th, 2011, 04:36 PM »
Looks like it indeed...
The scrollbar, however, looks a little strange! Isn't there a way to have a normal one...?

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Re: PHP IDE for windows
« Reply #34, on September 12th, 2011, 05:05 PM »
I think it's written in Java and so ends up creating its own widget set instead of using Windows ones.

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Re: PHP IDE for windows
« Reply #35, on September 12th, 2011, 05:56 PM »
Quote from Nao on September 12th, 2011, 04:36 PM
Looks like it indeed...
The scrollbar, however, looks a little strange! Isn't there a way to have a normal one...?
Well, not really. The scroll bar is actually a combination of a scroll + annotation bar and looks like a custom control. It's indeed a bit weird, but I rarely use scroll bars anyway.

PhpStorm is using Swing (unlike Eclipse) so it'll never look 100% like a native Windows application.

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Re: PHP IDE for windows
« Reply #36, on September 12th, 2011, 06:20 PM »
It still looks good. I just gave it a try and my first opinion is positive. Now I'll have to see if it's configurable...

Like, clicking a tab to minimize it.

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Re: PHP IDE for windows
« Reply #37, on September 12th, 2011, 08:21 PM »
I'm now using openSuSE and I find KDevelop to a very nice IDE for all kinds of development.
Re: PHP IDE for windows
« Reply #38, on September 20th, 2011, 11:06 AM »
Now I've moved to Windows 8 + WAMPS + git extensions + Visual Studio 2010 with Vs.PHP
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Re: PHP IDE for windows
« Reply #40, on September 20th, 2011, 12:12 PM »
Nothing? This whole topic was about PHP IDE setups.

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Re: PHP IDE for windows
« Reply #42, on September 20th, 2011, 12:19 PM »
Yes, and Nao was enquiring as to how you were finding it... especially, I think, regarding Windows 8.

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Re: PHP IDE for windows
« Reply #43, on September 20th, 2011, 05:25 PM »
Sorry, I find it good. Windows 8's UI is different but I like it, there aren't many metro apps so I can't use it much but from what I see it has a good potential. It's fairly stable, hasn't crashed for me so far. VS itself is good as well, just started using it so will comment on it later.

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Re: PHP IDE for windows
« Reply #44, on September 22nd, 2011, 11:20 AM »
Installed Win8 64-bit and a bit 'meh'...
Dunno why but it's very slow in my VirtualBox window (when I get full speed on other OSes.)
I like the Metro UI but I don't like the scrollbars (can't they make them less intrusive and push them away from the icon content...?), as well as the fact that it's obviously built for tablets only... Heck, why is this the default UI anyway...?
I'd love to know what fonts they used, apart from the now obvious Segoe UI Light... I looked through the Fonts folder and didn't find anything that wasn't already in Win7.
Oh, and it's a bit buggy BTW... I launched the 'card quiz' or something, and some of the questions were asked over two lines and the second line would be severely cut off at the bottom... Lol.