seth350
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Is it just me, or does AB's ST editor have anyone else pulling their hair out?
I find myself having to do a lot of mouse work with the text editor is what I mean. For instance, typing in the first few letters of a tag and then pressing Ctrl-Space just gives you a blank drop down box to type in a tag, instead of the software attempting to finish what you started typing. Of course, before you begin to type the tag, you can press Ctrl-Space and then start typing the name of tag and it will fill in what it thinks you mean. I just find it to be clunky and awkward.
Also the lack of smart indentation.
The most frustrating thing is AB's lack of "Intellisense", or the lack of a traditional one. Also, the fact that I find myself getting fed up with the ST editor and swapping the logic over to ladder. Which usually ends up with me getting fed up with it as well. Knowing how much quicker and cleaner I could write it in ST, and so I swap the code back to ST and just grit my teeth.
I suppose I may be a tad bit spoiled from using Visual Studio and B&R's Automation Studio ST editor.
Does anyone know any tricks to speed up code writing in AB's ST editor? I would appreciate any tip or just a simple reply of "Suck it up, buttercup."
I find myself having to do a lot of mouse work with the text editor is what I mean. For instance, typing in the first few letters of a tag and then pressing Ctrl-Space just gives you a blank drop down box to type in a tag, instead of the software attempting to finish what you started typing. Of course, before you begin to type the tag, you can press Ctrl-Space and then start typing the name of tag and it will fill in what it thinks you mean. I just find it to be clunky and awkward.
Also the lack of smart indentation.
The most frustrating thing is AB's lack of "Intellisense", or the lack of a traditional one. Also, the fact that I find myself getting fed up with the ST editor and swapping the logic over to ladder. Which usually ends up with me getting fed up with it as well. Knowing how much quicker and cleaner I could write it in ST, and so I swap the code back to ST and just grit my teeth.
I suppose I may be a tad bit spoiled from using Visual Studio and B&R's Automation Studio ST editor.
Does anyone know any tricks to speed up code writing in AB's ST editor? I would appreciate any tip or just a simple reply of "Suck it up, buttercup."
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