6. Make it easier to extend a class with a method in a package. The technique I was told is to create the method in an existing package and then move it. That's cumbersome and non-intuitive.
- James Robertson - In the launcher, look at Store>>Settings>>New Methods. The default is the one that will do this if you have set a current package. You do this in the StORE browser, in the package list menu. For purposes of the StORE package browser, the selected package is current. When developing in any other browser (or the debugger), the current package is whatever you have set using the menu.
Thus, new methods (or classes or statics) will go where they are told according to the settings (referenced above) and the 'current package' setting.
- Bruce Samuelson - Yes, you can set a current package, but with 5i1 where I work, at least, doing so is impossibly slow, so I don't use this feature. Perhaps it will be fixed as part of the overall performance improvements that are underway.
Alan Knight--Agreed. (wrt/ Bruce's original request.)