Not an essential but my favourite feature of the Delphi IDE is Code Folding. This is the ablility to 'fold' a block of code into a code folded marker '...'
For example :-
[-]FUNCTION PSprite: id, tile, width, height, x, y
LOCAL sx, sy, tx, ty, dx, dy
LOCAL p2x, p2y
LOCAL cols, c
GETSPRITESIZE id, sx, sy
cols = INTEGER(sx / width)
tx = MOD(tile, cols) * width
ty = INTEGER(tile/cols) * height
c=RGB(255,255,255)
width=width-1
height=height-1
STARTPOLY id
POLYVECTOR x, y ,tx ,ty ,c
POLYVECTOR x, y+height,tx ,ty+height,c
POLYVECTOR x+width,y+height,tx+width,ty+height,c
POLYVECTOR x+width,y ,tx+width,ty ,c
ENDPOLY
ENDFUNCTIONBecomes...
[+]FUNCTION PSprite: id, tile, width, height, x, y ...Browsing and arranging your code is a much easier afair.
As I said, not essential but I would love to see it in the editor. :)
That's a lot of work and I personally do not use it ;) That's why there is a jump-bar on the right side, yo you have all the functions without additional text in between. I think I'll better use my time for other things, sorry. :)
No problem Gernot, I understand :),
How is the compiler/debugger set for an external editor. Could I control the compiler/debugger from command line? Can I intercept errors/warrnings/messages?
Oh. You'd better leave that. It's not designed this way and it would cause lots of trouble. Is this feature so important?
No its not that important Gernot. I wrote a small Blitzbasic IDE a while back using Delphi, I thought it could be easy to modify it for GLB.
The new update offers the possibility to remove jump marks from the list simply by writing an '@' infront of it. Get it and see if it helps you. V: 3.118
A nice addition,
thank you Gernot.
Ian