Improvements for VS 5 or 6 or even later - just ideas

Color coding & back button sound like interesting ideas (note the way I wrote color? I hate the British version of words containing the pointless "U").

In regards to sound fx & positioning. Actually possible with a bit of scripting. I already wrote scripts for dynamic sound, but don't know if I want to share them on the wiki. I waste too much time writing & sharing stuff for free already. The basic gist of the script is to calculate position of character, position of object & then compare with a percentage based on current position of character over scene total width/height or based on position of character in the viewport.

P.S: here's a few things coming in the next build (the actual changelog is quite large):
* Retina (HiDPI) bug fix
* New option for interfaces (always display - even during cut-scenes)
* New animation frame displacement tool (for offsetting / aligning up animation frames)
* Character speed action part affects walk speed (again)
* Gesture support (phones/tablets)
* & much, much more...

andiliddell
A filter option on room objects:
I use a prefix for all room objects (_gfx,_item etc) would be great to filter by these to find items faster in complex rooms with many objects. Or even an option to colour code or toggle/hide objects from the list.

Awesome idea !

I would like to see the cut & paste implementation improved, especially in the areas of copying blocks of action areas, but more importantly for me would be the ability to copy & paste action script names.

To elaborate, a scene in my game might well have over 150 display text inter- reactions in 50 or more action scripts.
After writing the scene I go back and add speech to all the display texts.
I store these speeches in one folder per scene, each speech is named the same as the action script that activates it plus a suffix number if needed.

With no copy & paste, it means I have to type in the action script name again 50+ times, instead of just copying it from the editor.

Other things I would like is the ability to add comment lines & blocks to action scripts & to be able to comment action script lines out individually or in blocks.

You mean to enable / disable action parts in an action list? That would be a pretty nice feature I think & would be great for debugging / testing things out, without having to remove current action parts.

Yes exactly that. Something like a comment start / end wrapper line that you could add into a script that disables the block of code in between and maybe a quick way for an individual line ... highlight the line & press comment toggle button to comment out / uncomment perhaps?

My thoughts on this would be a simple indicator like grayed out text. Right click an action part & enable / disable the action part or maybe there could be a button. It is an interesting idea, all the same.

Yes, that would work well, as long as the greyed out text is still legible. It would be relatively quick & easy to disable blocks of action parts using a right click action.

But it would also be nice to be able to add comment lines as well for documentation purposes, etc.

Any estimate when the next build might be released? Looks like big update, can't wait :-)

Was proposed for sometime this month (I think the devs said), but I can't guarantee that, as the devs are still plugging away at it.