opinions needed - designing an IDE

[pr0gger]

how about

Code:

PRINT "Mouse-turn-on-thing utility"
PRINT
ASM
     ;Some Random ASM code here
     mov ax,1
     int 33
END ASM
END

Dunno if it would -work-, just sounded interesting. :rotfl:

[Sterling Christensen]

If I decided to support inline asm, it would probably be limited to 386 instructions at first, unless I rely on masm for syntax checking of asm, in which case I'd have to work out a way of catching them and reporting them in the IDE.

And because of the issue of variables with names like AX it might require you to prepend a certain one or two characters to all variable names... maybe just an underscore (_).

[Sterling Christensen]

I *need* syntax highlighting ;)

Hmm... syntax highlighting looks a lot better on a white background than on blue. I might switch it to Windows just for that. I can't decide what could look ok - pick your favorite color(s):

[Agamemnus]

Let me ask you a question: what's wrong with QB's color options feature....?

[red_Marvin]

'$define
(see #define in c/c++)

There are good reasons why C has a preprocessor and good reasons why other languages such as Java and QBasic do not have one. A good language includes a feature because it is a useful addition, not a cool novelty, QBasic in particular does not need a preprocessor.

Well I thought it could be useful since I debugged a program in C++
with it. (Yeah I know there's some #debug stuff and such but I've
never learned it. so I made a debugging feature like this:

Code:

#define q debug_function;

void debug_function();
int debug_var=0

int main()
{
//code
q
//code I suspect causes a n error
q
code
}

void debug_function()
{
ddebug_var++
//open c:\debuglog, print debug_var, close debuglog
}

Well something like that...

[Sterling Christensen]

Let me ask you a question: what's wrong with QB's color options feature....?

It doesn't support syntax highlighting - all the text must be the same color in QB.

[Plasma]

I think he means why not let the programmer pick the color of the text/background, similar to the QB IDE. (It would work the same way with syntax highlighting, you'd have more options to set up.)

[Sterling Christensen]

Plasma357: OIC, ok.

[oracle]

Eh??? What I mean by syntax highlighting is:

open quanta
start writing some php

*That* is syntax highlighting. Different colours for variables, commands...

And yes, it would look better on white.

[Agamemnus]

Pink! Pink is the way to go.......

GREY ON BLUE
GREY ON BLUE
RARARA...