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…

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 quickly see the device’s events from the simulator

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 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:

Default values for input types in preferences only work in the app, should work in simulator but doesn’t. FYI, this bug was submitted on July 18, 2014 and still exists today.

Feature Request, show how many devices are currently using a custom device type so we know if it is in use or not.

With the risk of being too generic, may I suggest as an overall feature request that the Code Editor be something at least as richly functional as the Cloud9 online environment or similar? ie, multi-window, code completion, auto indent, search/replace, infinite undo, debugger, … I believe that the…

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pstuart (Patrick Stuart [@pstuart]) June 18, 2015, 5:41pm 23

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.

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