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DarkBASIC Discussion / WTF is with the crappy interface?

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Teckno
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Posted: 21st Jan 2004 03:22
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I just started playing around with Darkbasic and I have found that the interface is the worst ive ever seen; super low 640X480 reslution, adding modular bits of code is a pain, runs full screen, and switching to the media browser and back is also a pain.

Is there another (maybe thrid party) interface for Darkbasic? one like evrsoft's 1st Page 2000 html editer http://www.evrsoft.com/images/1stpage_capture_a.gifwould be great
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dark coder
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Posted: 21st Jan 2004 03:26
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yea you will discover if you look in the darkbasic folder there is a app called darkedit, open it up then goto edit/Edit options then select darkbasic options and then browser for the darkbasic.exe, then you can use that instead and much easier

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Phaelax
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Posted: 21st Jan 2004 03:33
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darkbasic pro comes with a much nicer editor, with a more visual studio interface feel to it.

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Teckno
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Posted: 21st Jan 2004 03:52
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thanks, the interface for DBPro looks great, but im sure i want to spend 90 buck on it. but darkedit looks ok (could be better, but ok)

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Posted: 21st Jan 2004 04:43
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DarkEdit is perfect... Once I found it, I never switched back to the Classic interface

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JoelJ
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Posted: 21st Jan 2004 06:26
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wha? DEdit came with DB? i didnt know...

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Phaelax
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Posted: 21st Jan 2004 06:35
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I never liked darkedit myself. crashed too much.

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JoelJ
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Posted: 21st Jan 2004 06:37
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i have only ONE problem with it (and it aint crashing)
it wont allow me to copy to the clipboard for some reason. if i want to copy code, i have to open it in nopepad or somethign...but i can paste from the clipboard...weird i know if you want to help me you [email protected] or im on the DB irc thingy most of the day

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John H
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Posted: 21st Jan 2004 14:07
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Did you try RIGHT CLICK and COPY, or just EDIT COPY ?


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VishalC
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i have only one problem with darkedit. i can't make the help context sensitive like in the original editor. pressing f1 takes me to the command index. how do i fix it and make it give help depending on where my cursor is?

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Posted: 21st Jan 2004 14:14
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Usually I do Ctrl + C and that always worked.


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sacofjoea
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is it possible to have the examples load in Darkedit? thats been my only real problem with the software...
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Robin
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If you go to the examples folder in the open file dialogue in Dark Edit, you can find all the files there

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Major Payn
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2004 00:53
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The db interface is not all bad. I have got used to it. It is not like the crappy interface effects anything but what you look at.

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JoelJ
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Posted: 25th Jan 2004 02:18
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Quote: " Did you try RIGHT CLICK and COPY, or just EDIT COPY ?"

iv tryed all of them i normally use ctr-c and that worked for awhile...then it suddenly stoped...i can copy fine in any other program...i can actually copy from the fields under edit-options.

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I always use DB Normal interface!(Yes, the classical black one)

Because if DarkEdit crashes, you loose all your work!(Well, you can restore it, it's in .bak file, but I am too lazy )

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JoelJ
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Posted: 25th Jan 2004 02:59
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i havnt had that happen yet i just want to be able to copy and paste, and have a windows interface

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Doucan
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Ok, you'll probably think I'm stupid, but I never really figured what the advantage of Dark Edit was. (other than you get all the different types of commands and funtions in different colors ) Is there a way to avoid the whole media browser thing?

As I said, you'll probably think I'm really stupid, but what would you expect from a monkey?

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John H
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Posted: 25th Jan 2004 06:02
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That IS the advantage, it just looks nicer


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Doucan
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Posted: 25th Jan 2004 06:05
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oh

So there's no way to escape the media browser thing?

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John H
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Posted: 25th Jan 2004 06:33
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I dunno what your talking about...media browswer thing...


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sacofjoea
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Posted: 25th Jan 2004 11:40
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Quote: " If you go to the examples folder in the open file dialogue in Dark Edit, you can find all the files there"


Yeah, but that sort of defeats the purpose of using the DB help files. I'd hate to have to navigate through the examples folder for exam34.dba of 99 when I could simply click the link provided in the DB help files and load it straight into Dark Edit - which I assume you cannot do
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ico2
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Posted: 25th Jan 2004 13:16
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instead of using the media browser i just copy files direct into the project folder.
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Quote: "instead of using the media browser i just copy files direct into the project folder. "


same here


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