I think I made this suggestion while you were in the process of moving back the suggestions in this forum, since I wasn't able to find my original postOk, The point is that I keep the NCrunch test window docked to the left side of NCrunch. it looks like this:
As you can see the toolbar at the top, being cropped to the visible area, is almost unusable... to the point that I noticed only today, after years, that there is a "search" editbox at the end of this toolbar.
The window, with the arrangrment I am using is just 320 pixels wide, and it needs to be 930 pixels wide to have the top toolbar fully visible
Moreover: even when it is fully visible, the search box really tiny: the names of most of my test methods would need at least 3X that space to be fully visible in that searchbox.
This is my proposal:
- move the search box at the bottom of the grid, and let it expand in order to get the full width of the available client area
- the combo box "Tree structure", is not something one fiddles with continuously and takes away a lot of space: it could easily become a simple button with a popup menu, otherwise, It could be moved too to the bottom, side by side with the search box
- when the toolbar hasn't enough horizontal space, just arrange it vertically, instead of cropping it (or let users explicitly choose their preferred layout: horizontal top, left vertical, right vertical... and keep the search box and "tree structure" at the bottom
The idea is something like this:
as a side note: I think NCrunch would benefit in a revamping of the images with more modern icons, especially with icons that scale well on hi-dpi monitors. It happened already a couple of times that I wanted to show NCrunch to younger colleagues that immediatly criticized me for using something that looked 15 years old. Surely it is something superficial and says a lot about those programmers, but hey, they are potential customers being turned off by the first impression...
