Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[Manu]

On 3 September 2013 07:04, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 9/2/2013 1:36 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
>> It's things like this "keyhole interface", that caused me to be
>> convinced that the GUI emperor has no clothes, and to turn to CLI-only
>> development.
>>
>
> One of the giant failures of the GUI interface, and that VS suffers from,
> too, is when you need to do repetitive operations.
>
> On the CLI, I constantly use the history list, and I constantly write
> throwaway scripts to automate what I'm doing at the moment. It makes
> everything I do, no matter how obscure, only 2 or 3 keypresses.
>
> With VS, or any GUI, if there's not a button to do it, I'm reduced to:
>
> move mouse
> click
> move mouse
> click
> move mouse
> type
> move mouse
> click
> type
>
> to get something done. And if I want to do it again, I have to repeat that
> process. After the 10th time, it's gaaaaahhh I hate it and go back to the
> CLI.
>
> I scan a lot of photos. I have a GUI photo editor. A common thing I do is
> straighten the photos, because they never go through the scanner straight.
> So it's:
>
> right shift click on the picture
> select open with
> select photoeditor
> select edit
> select rotate
> select autorotate
> select apply
> select save
> select exit
>
> Sounds easy, right? It is easy. Now do it to 1000 photos. With a command
> line tool:
>
> write a script that does it to one picture, name it cc.bat
>
> do:
>    dir/b *.jpg >doit.bat
>
> open the file and use the macro feature to prepend "cc " to each file
> name, maybe 10 keystrokes
>
> execute the script
>
> Done! And CLI Clint goes and surfs the n.g. while GUI Gus has just gotten
> to picture 4, only 996 more to go!
>

Visual studio has macros. Ctrl-Shift-R, do your repetitive task,
Ctrl-Shift-R, then hit Ctrl-P and it'll repeat what you did as many times
as you like.
I use this all the time. I barely touch the mouse in VS, and GUI isn't very
good.
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