MetalScroll
(Free)
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Created by:
Mihnea Balta
(Griffin Software)
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Rating:
(8)
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Clicks:
871
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Last Updated:
Monday, November 23, 2009
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Version:
1.0.7
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Supported Versions
Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008
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Virus Ecks
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November 18 2009
isn't really compatible with the code description window . but if it wasn't for that weird code defination bug it would've been nice
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petermtate
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November 10 2009
A great kick-butt alternative to RockScroll. Love hitting ESC to disable highlighting, love the fact it deals nicely with collapsed regions.
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jaybo_nomad
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November 05 2009
Finally, a better replacement for RockScroll! Hasn't crashed (V1.0.4 on VS2008), better coloration of source code, split windows, ALT + doubleclick to highlight, set your own colors, I'm a happy camper.
My only wish is that the horizontal line which indicates the current position within the file was a more intense color or had a larger minimum height. I have trouble seeing it in really big files.
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Rene Schulte
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November 04 2009
Awesome and essential! Thanks Mihnea Balta!
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Lidgren
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November 04 2009
An awesome plugin made better
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when i ALT+doubleclick a blank line,it freezed.
great job!
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November 02, 2009
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Sorry about that. I've uploaded build 1.0.3 which fixes the problem.
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November 03, 2009
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Sorry, I mean 1.0.4.
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November 03, 2009
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excellent,I just replaced RockScroll with it right now.
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November 04, 2009
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Tengo VS 2005 y lo instalo, pudria ver MetalScroll en los herrimientos addicionales pero no pude ver en ves del scrollbar. no servio para me.
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November 05, 2009
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Great product. Love the options. Only found two things wrong with it (Using VB.net, VS2005)
Comments are not color coded.
When you first open a file, the blue area that represents the currently visible section of code is usually not the right size. After I click somewhere on the scroll bar, it fixes itself.
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November 09, 2009
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Just found one more thing. If I increase the size of the scroll bar, say to 128, break point and book marks are still drawn using the default size of 64. (Meaning they appear in the middle of the scroll bar)
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November 09, 2009
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ctwalker: thanks for the reports. The right edge markers are indeed drawn at a hardcoded location, I'm not sure how I managed to do that (probably late night coding :) ). I'll fix it for the next update.
The wrong size of the blue area is an update problem, it should also go away if you wait 2 seconds. I'll try to figure out why it's not updating properly though, it's probably something silly on my part.
The code only supports C style comments at the moment. I'll see about checking the language used in the file and parsing the comments appropriately.
Kurt Place: could you install DebugView ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647.aspx ) and tell me what messages are printed when Visual Studio starts up?
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November 10, 2009
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Awesome product! I do not have a patch but how would one go about submitting one? You have no contact info/ bug submission on the codeplex site.
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November 10, 2009
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I thought the site would display my mail somewhere, but if it does, I can't find it either. I've updated the page with my address, which is mihnea.balta@gmail.com .
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November 10, 2009
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I uninstalled RockScroll, then installed MetalScroll. However, MetalScroll does not show up. It is listed in the Add-in Manager.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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I've just received a similar problem report by mail, I'm looking into it.
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Rory Driscoll figured out that when the horizontal scrollbar is disabled, the add-in doesn't work. I'll fix the problem in the next update, but until then you can enable the bar and MetalScroll should show up (Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> General -> Display Horizontal Scrollbar). Please tell me if this worked in your case.
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Enabled the horizontal scroll bar and MetalScroll worked. Wahooo!
MetalScroll is most excellent. Thanks for making it available.
For anyone, like me, who wants to change the color MetalScroll uses to highlight text, there's an option under Tools/Options/Environment/Fonts
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This an excellent tool, I've just replaced rockscroll with this. But it doesn't quite work well with wrapped text, and with split windows, the new windows doesn't show this bar, is it supposed to be like this or is it a bug?
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I haven't thought about text wrapping, I'll see if I can take that into account too. Split windows won't show the bar immediately, but they should show it when they get focus (when you click inside for the first time). Doesn't that work in your case?
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I've just uploaded version 1.0.7 which should work when the horizontal scrollbar is disabled and adds support for word wrapping. More details on the webpage.
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