Method R Newsletter: Workbench 9.4
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Workbench 9.4This week's article is about the newest version of Method R Workbench, which we released Wednesday. Yesterday, we released Method R Workbench 9.4.1.0. This article is a tour of some of the 50 new application behavior changes.
Command History Scrolling
In Workbench 9.3, it was a pain to try to find a given report in the output pane. For example, do this:
1. Run the “Time by line range” action upon a 1,000-line trace file, with
1- as the range. The output will be 1,000 lines.2. Run the “Duration by call name” action upon the same file. The output will be about 15 lines.
3. Run the “Time by line range” action again. Another 1,000 lines.
4. Now, find the “Duration by call name” report, which now is buried between two 1,000-line reports.
This was a fun design problem. My initial idea was a “table of contents” dialog. It would list the actions that had been run, and then clicking on one would scroll the output pane back to the first line of that action’s output. But I hate dialogs.
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