The Stab In The Dark Editor is a third party IDE for Dark Basic Professional. We started creating the Stab In The Dark Editor so we could use Dbpro to its full potential. We believe that an IDE should make coding your projects easy, especially for those new to Dbpro, so you can spend more time on game design. We are releasing it here as an Alpha. All comments, criticisms, and suggestions are welcome.
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Stab In The Dark Editor Features
1. Auto Complete
2. Calltips
3. Coloring of the Following;
Comments,
Constants,
Types,
Global Variables,
Local Variables,
Global Arrays,
Local Arrays,
Keywords,
DBPro Commands,
Functions,
Function Parameters,
Strings,
Members of Types
4. Code Block summaries for; Functions, Types, and variables using three forward slashes.
5. Solution Explorer displays all project files and the files local path within the Project.
6. Surround Selected Lines With IF/EndIf, For/Next, Function/EndFunction.
7. Insert KeyState Number with and without Code line.
8. Code View Displays Complete Project Info with assigned colors.
9. Renaming of Files in Solution Explorer.
10. Sequential Backup of Project, with or without media, also can backup all other files in Project Directory. Example script files, source file not currently included in the project. Also Backup only media currently used in project.
11. AutoComplete has colored Icons to easily distinguish between Keywords.
12. Ability to import and export template projects
13. Auto formatting of whole file or selected text.
14. Media window automatically loads files in Media folder.
15. Media window displays icons for media files.
16. Allows the referencing of dba files and also a folder of dba files for compiling with the project.
Anyone who had problems running IDE download Latest version.
08/30/2011- Version 1.01(alpha)
Minor bug fix if DBPro not in default Directory
08/31/2011- Version 1.02(Alpha)
Minor bug fix in parsing of Multiple colons on one line.
09/01/2011- Version 1.03(Alpha)
When typing in Rem statements sometimes triggered Auto complete.
Folding of code blocks thrown off when adding new line.
Color and font of symbols can now be set in Tools>>Options.
Minor Parsing Fixed.
Conformation window now appears when exporting a project as a template.
Added Game States Template.
09/04/2011- Version 1.04(Alpha)
When opening a project any source files Included from outside the project dir were being copied into the project dir. Reported by Balid
Crash in media view when opening project with included media. Reported by Kamac
Bug when creating new project from user template. Reported by Rotten Milk Studios
09/05/2011- Version 1.07(Alpha)
09/09/2011- Version 1.08(Alpha)
Added extra error checks to find error. Reported by GUIDO
Bug in solution explorer showing complete directory for local source files.
Bug in parsing slowed down updating source file.
Added indicators for media in source files, that are not included in the project.
09/10/2011- Version 1.09(Alpha)
Minor bug fix in Autocomlpete and call tips.
Added additional error catch for crash reported by GUIDO.
09/12/2011- Version 1.10(Alpha)
Fixed several bugs in parser.
Added indicators for duplicate code blocks.
Several updates to the solution explorer.
Several updates to the media view.
09/26/2011 - Version 1.20(Alpha)
Fixed bug when adding existing source file that is in local project directory.
Fixed bug with call tips flickering on large source files.
Fixed Auto complete bug when typing keywords.
Optimized calculating Intellisense, major speed improvement.
Fixed intermittent bug in Find in Files code.
Fixed bug in Backup when using selected media.
Optimized find all references, speed improvement.
Optimized parsing of large files, Major speed improvement.
New progress bar for project loading
Fixed minor bug when getting compiler error line number.
09/27/2011 - Version 1.21Alpha)
Bug fix for update all references.
10/1/2011 – Version 1.30 (Alpha)
Fixed keyword dictionary bug . Reported by Miso, Thanks
Fixed media indicator bug. Reported by Balid, Thanks
Fixed Dockable windows text bug. Reported by Balid, Thanks
Fixed Dockable windows icons bug for different screen resolutions.
Fixed several parser bugs.
10/1/2011 – Version 1.31 (Alpha)
Fixed bug to handle known issue in DBPro with colons following the declaration of a member variable in a UDT. Reported by Miso
10/3/2011 – Version 1.40 (Alpha)
Updated parsing of Quotes.
10/5/2011 – Version 1.42 (Alpha)
Fixed two parsing bugs.
10/8/2011 – Version 1.50 (Alpha)
New Features
1. Solution explorer has a dependences folder to show what Third party dll’s your project is dependent upon.
2. Added ability to change the color of the page background, keyword highlight, and code block highlight. Located in the Tools>>Options>>Text Fonts & Colors (Requested by Zenassem)
3. Added Project Task Window with two choices.
(Project Tasks) = displays project TODO list
(Comments) = Displays any remarks in source files that begin with //TODO:
10/9/2011 – Version 1.55 (Alpha)
Fixed bug when clicking at bottom of source file. Reported by zenassem
Updated and fixed bug in Project task window.
10/11/2011 – Version 1.57 (Alpha)
Added required MFC dlls.
10/12/2011 – Version 1.58 (Alpha)
Fixed bug with adding existing source file.
Added additional error checks in Compile and Run.
Added option to change CallTip Colors and Font.
10/13/2011 – Version 1.60 (Alpha),
Fixed bug in Compile and Run when launching DBPro.exe
Fixed bug with updating dependences
Added coloring for; Line Number Margins, Folding Margins, and Code Block Summaries.
10/14/2011 – Version 1.61 (Alpha)
10/21/2011 - Stab In The Dark Editor is now in Beta. See Program Announcements
Features in Development
Debugging with Breakpoints and Variable calltips.
Indicators for coding errors.
Open .lua script files for editing with syntax highlighting and autocomplete.
Open Shaders files for editing.
Requirements
Dot Net Framework 4.0
Dark Basic Professional
Supported Operating Systems
Windows XP Sp3
Vista
Windows 7,32 bit SP1
Windows 7,64 bit SP1
Link to download Page
http://www.stabinthedarksoftware.com/Downloads.aspx
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WindowsXP SP3,Vista,Windows 7 SP1, DBpro v7.7RC7
Stab In The Dark Editor
The coffee is lovely dark and deep,and I have code to write before I sleep.