JakubH Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 Hi, just evaluating Plastic (for using it in our company) and I like it very much. One of things which could be better is an Annotate view, especially when integrated in VS2010. First, there is a small (but very annoying) bug when using Tomato Visual Assist. This very popular Visual Studio plugin adds a bar with some usefull stuff over an editor. Unfortunatelly it leads to an one line shift of code, while annotation is not shifted (see attached pictures). Now, annotation are attached to wrong lines of code. Even without this bug, this view is not very powerfull. Only the first line of a changed segment is annotated (so if the first line is outside the current view, I don't see the annotation) and the only interactivity is a tooltip and highlighting all segments changed in the same changeset. I would love something more interactive, perheps similar to Perforce Time-lapse view: http://www.perforce..../timelapse_view. Maybe I should add it as a suggestion to your UserVoice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manu Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 Hi there! The Time Lapse View is a good suggestion. Feel free to add it to user voice. That being said... if you really want power... why don't you check the "method history"? It parses the code and shows you the history of the selected method... it makes P4 cry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakubH Posted June 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 The method history would be great, but as far as I know, it works for C# only. Unfortunattely we are stick to bad old unmanaged C++. :-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakubH Posted June 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 I've added a suggestion regarding interactive history: http://plasticscm.uservoice.com/forums/15467-general/suggestions/2938098-interactive-file-history-annotation- What about that buggy view with Visual Assist? Maybe the "Annotate" context menu command in Visual Studio can open an annotated view in a Plastic SCM standalone client instead of an integrated one, as a workaround. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psantosl Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 Thanks for the suggestion! We'll definitely go for it. Argh! We do need to support C++!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soho Posted June 20, 2012 Report Share Posted June 20, 2012 If you plan to revisit annotation and history in the Plastic plugin, please consider making more options available in the code editor context menu. It is very convenient to be able to just right-click the code and choose history, annotation, diff, etc. rather than finding the file in the solution explorer. Customizable keyboard shortcuts to everything would also be very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manu Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 yes! many customers are missing the right click on the editor and -> X. It's in our road map to implement it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psantosl Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 We're working on the VS12 support right now: http://www.flickr.com/photos/plasticscm/sets/72157630195098012/. Adding the context menus wouldn't be difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psantosl Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 You can add your request to our user voice and ask people to vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danipen Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 If you plan to revisit annotation and history in the Plastic plugin, please consider making more options available in the code editor context menu. It is very convenient to be able to just right-click the code and choose history, annotation, diff, etc. rather than finding the file in the solution explorer. Customizable keyboard shortcuts to everything would also be very nice. Soho, we're added more options to the code editor context menu. It will be available in the next public Plastic SCM release (it will also support VS2012). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakubH Posted August 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2012 I've found another bug in an annotated view, which is triggered from a context menu in Visual Studio. If I select a chunk of code in the left "annotation" column and then move with a scroll bar from a screen and back, i get a strange mess: The annotation view is still a real drawback for me, by the way. It is even less capable than the one within TortoiseCVS. However I suppose – as I've read somewhere around here – Plastic is for early adopters, so I have to live with that for now or look for another product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anuar Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 Hi JakubH, When this happens, you can reset the left panel to the good one, just by clicking on it again. Anyway, we will fix it in future releases. Take into account we are improving Plastic in every daily release, and we are always very aware of what features our users request. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakubH Posted August 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 Anyway, we will fix it in future releases. Take into account we are improving Plastic in every daily release, and we are always very aware of what features our users request. Yes, I really appreciate it. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakubH Posted October 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 For anybody with Visual Assist: I've solved the issue with Visual Assist toolbar and Annotated view, I've had mentioned in my first post here. Go to Visual Assist options, Projects > File Handling and add "Annotated" to Extension to ignore. Edit: Oh no, it does not work! I mistakenly thought that it helped, but that was only the fact, that the problematic bar appears only after first clicking into the editor window. Visual Assist can be turned off only by an extension, but it doesn't change in an Annotated view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danipen Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 JakubH, Thank you very much for the information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manu Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 Cool hint! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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