[Gambas-user] About Visual Studio Express

[jm]

On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 20:32 +0930, Bruce Bruen wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 10:09 +0100, jm wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 15:40 +0300, Demosthenes Koptsis wrote:
> > > These days i started to test Visual Studio Express 2010 to compare it 
> > > with Gambas3.
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have any experience with VB Studio Express ?
> > > 
> > > Are there any characteristics that may be we wanted to see in Gambas3 ?
> > > 
> > > Thank you !
> > 
> > I don't do VB, but here is one feature I would sorely appreciate.
> > 
> > [This may be too much to ask.]
> > 
> > I do 'frenzied' amounts of Gambas programming when on a roll, and keep
> > hitting one brick wall often.
> > 
> > The most common problem is knowing what objects are what and their
> > properties and methods in an easy way that doesn't interfere with
> > 'frenzied' programming and debugging flow.
> > 
> > Take something like the object "Application.Path" which you might find
> > in code.
> > 
> > When I double click Application, it highlights that part of the text.
> > When I then right click, I get a pop up menu to insert a break point,
> > cut, paste, copy, etc. All nice. What I also want is an "info" menu
> > option added to the pop up menu.
> > 
> 
> Try double clicking on Application and then hitting F2

That seems to work 100% with gambas 3. 
Thanks - that is all I needed to go programming at screaming speeds! :-)


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