It's update day again.
Try this out and be astounded once again.
The feature you've all been waiting for is now here.
The IDE shows tooltip parameters (like Visual Studio(or Delphi, in my case)) for all DBP functions and commands, 3rd party commands(if you have the keywords file in your DBP folder), and also all your own DBP functions. Ctrl+shift+space is the keyboard shortcut if you click in the middle of a function and want to see its parameters.
Context sensitive help added.
Fixed cut/copy/paste bug when not focused on IDE.
Fixed copy/paste bug with help explorer.
The Project Explorer is no longer one letter behind when you type in your project's name in the project manager.
That's all I remember right now as it is 1:33 a.m.
Known issues:
If for some reason you don't have a registry entry for DBP's install path, you have to add it yourself.
Functions that are inside of remstart/remend blocks show up in the code explorer.
Function tooltips show up inside of comments.
Anyway, please try it out and let me know if it works, if it doesn't, your suggestions, etc.
Quote: "Even though it's a licensed, stable, commercial product, some employers don't like it on your laptop. The install path is a quick way to check installed products, so some of us choose to delete it"
An excellent thought there. I never even thought about it, but that makes perfect sense.
Quote: "The error pane in the compiler progress window could do with being scrollable Sometimes, the error is longer than the size of the panel."
I thought I had given plenty of room.
What sort of an error message are you getting? Still a good idea, though, as you can never really be sure how long an error message might be.
Quote: "I don't know if someone already suggested it or not, but why not having a "templates" option like Dev-C++ has?"
Maybe someday, but for now, you could just save a few .dba files as your templates and use file->open to use them.
Quote: "This should be easy to add in, but at the moment, there isn't a button to compile only. You have to go compile >> compile only to do it."
Or just press ctrl+F5
I suppose a toolbutton would be nice, but I don't want to get the toolbar too cluttered up.
Quote: "Also, how many undos can it do? And what does that smart tabs option do?"
The undo level is set to 1024 right now. That should give you plenty of room to screw up.
I personally don't like smart tabs, but it's just there. It indents to whatever the length of the word on the previous line is, if that makes any sense. Just try it and see. I personally find it annoying.
Quote: "One more question, is there a way to set the default folder when opening projects?"
Umm, yeah. The IDE remembers whatever folder you last opened a project from.
Wow, lot's of questions and answers.
Have fun.
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