My Work In Progress IDE.

[MystikShadows]

I know I know it's not the first, but I say the more people make IDE's with the features they want , in the long run everyone will benifit because all the features will be here and there. and finally could / should be integrated to one another. Here's a few screen shots of what i have so far. Me and my Friend, Peter started this project originally for QB/PDS/VB-DOS (because of the DOS IDEs limitations) before FB started and just now decided to add FreeBasic features to it...(about time no? lol). Some images are big so I'm including links to them from my server to save bandwith to QBasic news ;-). you can thank me later ;-)>

ok...the about box ;-) *everyone's gotta brag sometimes ;-)*
http://www.adaworld.com/fbscreens/About.jpg

A general view of the IDE (with 2 projects to show the multiproject ability) of cours more than 2 projects can be opened as long as system resources allows :-).
http://www.adaworld.com/fbscreens/multiproject.jpg

Look at the lower part of this one, you can add items (to do list) there at will, and manage them (pending, in progress, complete) on the fly while editing the code. Though it might be a kewl add on to manage what's left to do :-).
http://www.adaworld.com/fbscreens/todolist.jpg

What's an IDE today without the Code Complete feature? lol. Here's an example of it for when you're declaring a variable, VB Windows users will know what that's about instantly ;-)
http://www.adaworld.com/fbscreens/CodeComplete.jpg

Not everyone likes the same colors as anyone else. So, here's the Editor Options where you can change that to fit things your way :-)
http://www.adaworld.com/fbscreens/EditorOptions.jpg

*** Just added these last 2 shots here:

This one shows the Comment Templates (everyone hates to comment so at least I'm trying to save as much typing while keeping the comments nice, clean and detailed). the Variables preceded by a $ are replaced with User or Project Information
automatically so you don't have to :-).
http://www.adaworld.com/fbscreens/CommentTemplates.jpg

And to complete the CommentTemplates, you can enter your information in this screen:
http://www.adaworld.com/fbscreens/UserInformation.jpg

and in the Project Options, shown here:
http://www.adaworld.com/fbscreens/ProjectOptions.jpg


There's plenty more things done, and a good couple things to add too. Got my list of features growing :-)...I'm stabilizing all this as much as I can, then it will be beta testing time :-).

I welcome comments, "Constructive" criticism and suggestions, as always.

NOTE: I'll probably update this post with new links to new screenshots when I make em :-). or just reply here to add them ... so check it out :-)...

[Rattrapmax6]

Sweet, tho I really hope you got more than just the about box? :lol: Just joking, there is more right? :wink: :roll:

[MystikShadows]

Yes...most definitaly as you can see....now if you look at my original post LOL....I updated it..

[Z!re]

Looks nice

[Rattrapmax6]

May I also suggest a Help File like the old QB??

Great screens, tho PNG is loads betta for pictures like this, instead of JPG. :wink: Cleaner put it that way.. and lighter, not that weight is the prob..

Anyway, I'm looking foward to when this thing comes out..

[v3cz0r]

Hey, it looks great, it even has MAK support -- no wonder you wanted FBC to automatically process them ;).

Keep the good work, i'm looking forward for it, anything that makes FB easier to use is really welcome -- now add a visual form editor too! heh j/k..

[MystikShadows]

lol...maybe I'll just interface with Adosorken's generator instead :-)...but well see...so far, he's got it goin on as far as GUI goes. But like I said, everyone has their idea of how an IDE should work. one of my principles that the saving keystrokes is the job if the IDE, not the language (as in short cryptic syntax lol) so that will be part of my IDE as much as I can..hence the comment header generator and such...but there's more ;-).

And yeah that's why I wanted to know if fbc supported the mak files...:-). even if it doesn't I'll make it also generate a batch file automatically to compile everything. but the make file is still good to work on all source files without having to open them all :-).


But I will be adding stuff in there.that should be "umm...what's the word?" "blasphemis" to the rest of the programming community....but such a good part of a QB/FB environment. ;-).

[v3cz0r]

Couldn't you pass all the .bas files on the .mak to fbc in one "call"? fbc can handle up to 100 .bas files at same time, you don't have to pass one per time.

To define which one will be the main module, you cand use the "-m filename[w/o path and extension]" cmd-line option, it could be like: "fbc.exe 1.bas 2.bas 3.bas 4.bas -m 4 -x 4.exe", to compile the 1, 2, 3 and 4 .bas files, and create a "4.exe" output having 4.bas as the main module.

[MystikShadows]

Awesome then...I'll do that in about 1 and 1/2 minutes...;-)....

[Nathan1993]

This is just a suggustion of something I really want for FB.... better in-line doc and I want it more like QB where I dont see the difference from the compiler and IDE, VonGodrics's installer was the first step towards that... im shivering as I write and I REALLY need to get a toilet in my basement... :barf: