As some of you already know, I recently became an employee of SmartThings. My job is to improve the IDE. Since I started as a community developer, I have my own list of issues that I’m hoping to improve. I would also like to hear from you about the problems you run into. If you can split individual…

Simulator will die, and need to reload page to jump start it. Would be nice to be able to click a button to restart simulator.

IDE / simulator doesn’t have the ability to show devicetype input preferences. Can only see this in app.

Feature Request - Code cleanup and formatting standards. Click a button and it auto indents and makes the code nice and tidy.

No find and replace within code. Broken functionality of browser search, some browsers only search what is visible.

Comments // don’t color code the same as block comments /* */ anymore.

Feature Request: Ability to change the layout of the virtual devices. Either horizontal or a resizable tile view so I don’t have to scroll. Bonus points for making sure they always show in the same order :slight_smile:

Simulator should mirror current standards for mobile apps, ie displaying text the same way, ability to show external html in a tile, etc. Especially dynamic pages.

Feature Request: A easy way to go to a specific line number and make the line number in the error a click to go to that line.

Feature Request: A search across all devicetypes or smartapps. For example, I need to find all uses of “bool” thanks to a recent platform change and then find any uses of the var == “true” Bonus points for find AND replace :smile:

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pstuart (Patrick Stuart [@pstuart]) June 18, 2015, 5:38pm 20

Feature Request. Ability to quickly see the device’s events from the simulator

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