[Gambas-user] Let's make a stable release of Gambas

[Benoit Minisini]

Le Mardi 8 Juillet 2003 22:53, Rob a écrit :
> On Tuesday 08 July 2003 16:13, Charlie wrote:
> > Is It possible ( like in VB ) to have the choice to do it in SDI or MDI ?
>
> This was one of the things I hope to do in my non-official Gambas.
>
> > And one of my favorits, is a tool in the IDE to 'pretty print' the souce
> > code for more readabillity (<- arg...is that english ?) without too much
> > keyboard working.
>
> It was closer to English than a lot of Americans ever manage.  One of the
> things I liked most about VB's editor was how it would change the
> capitalization of the symbols after you leave a line, so you'd know
> immediately if you'd mistyped something.  But I'm wondering if it would tie
> the Gambas editor too closely to the Gambas interpreter.

I think VB achieves that by partly compiling the code as you type it. I can't 
do that in Gambas, because everything is separated: interpreter, compiler, 
IDE. In VB, everything is the same program, so it is easier for them to have 
done that !

>
> > I made one  in gambas, but if you could include such one in the gambas -
> > editor it will be more powerfull.
>
> Make it a library and I'll certainly try to jam it into my non-Gambas ;)

If you have made a Gambas "pretty-printer" that works, send it me, and I will 
add it in the Tool menu of the IDE.

>
> > Oh yes the gambas - editor, hes not bad, but is more 1994 stile, when
> > DOS was the king. But never mind !
>
> The first thing I do whenever I install Gambas on a fresh machine is change
> all the editor colors.... black text, white background, green comments,
> blue symbols.... and Vera Sans Mono as the font.... do that and I bet it
> won't feel like a DOS editor anymore ;)

This remark gives me an idea :-)

>
> Rob
>
>

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Benoit Minisini
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