FreeBasic IDE project

[MystikShadows]

And what would you like to see in a Game Oriented Development System (like my acronym? G.O.D.S.) lol...

But yeah what would you think would make a better Game IDE?

- Features for debuging AI and Gamephysics
- Realtime Evaluation of DRAW command
- Built-In sprite editor that can generate CSV(?) files or DATAs and can read in DATAs and CSV into the sprite editor

In general:
- Just show the SUB/FUNCTION that the user is working on, like old QB behaviour
- Prefabs of common constructions for example: IF ... THEN ... ELSE ... ENDIF or SELECT CASE ... CASE ... CASE ... END SELECT or FOR .. = .. TO .. STEP .., i hope you get the idea.
- Prefabs of recuring stuff like keyboard and mouse
- Can create Installer out of project

Well I can tell you that Nek is well underway of creating an awesome tool to take care of the user interface part. This much I know ;-).

Now, when you talk of features for debugging AI.I think it would be hard to do unless we could all agree to use a specific AI engine (or create our own that would become a standard AI Engine. Other wise, there'are many ways to get to the same result. It would be somewhat hard to say, just by parsing the code, that it is about to go into this or that type of AI and should be processed this or that way accordingly. :-).

As for prefabs, well I can imagine that wouldn't be too hard to do, I would even see (now that we have enums) something like:

Code:

ENUM Possibitlies
       First
       Second
       Third
       Fourth
       Fifth
       Sixth
END ENUM

Then you'd pick an option to create a select case prefab based on a variable of this enum tyoe and it could create:

Code:

Select Case <VariableName>
       CASE First
       CASE Second
       CASE Third
       CASE Fourth
       CASE Fifth
       CASE Sixth
END SELECT

for example ;-). that could save a lot of typing, and time :-).