Re: Wishlist IDE * Reload ".exw"-Files
Hello Theo,
You're right, I did misunderstand you. While project (.prj) files can be
reloaded & allow for further development of a program, changed .EXW files
can't. My suspicion is that .prj files may be so *necessary* for keeping
things straight, that it would be practically impossible (?) to "reload" a
*changed* .exw file and expect anything to work. Of course, I could be
wrong, and that would be *good*! :)
And you're also right about the not-so-wonderful program development process
that is often necessary: make all the controls you think you'll need and do
everything else you can do in the IDE (ie, event handling), then take the
resulting .exw code and hand modify it in the editor of your choice until it
works as you want. Then if you need additional controls, reload the .prj,
add the new controls, copy the code which creates them (and acts on them)
from the new .exw, and paste it into your previous modification. I agree,
this is not at all optimal. Staying in the IDE for all stages of program
development would be the basic intention.
But while it doesn't completely fix this problem, there *is* an editor *in*
the IDE. It's not as full-featured as we might like, but it *is* there, and
it's what allows you to have event handler's skeletons be automatically
written for you in it, which you can pretty much fill in as needed. It now
even has cut and paste, which can be *very* useful for cutting routines from
examples & using them in your programs.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gottwald, IT-IS T500, Fa. Compaq, DA" <T.Gottwald at DEUTSCHEPOST.DE>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 10:37 PM
Subject: Wishlist IDE * Reload ".exw"-Files
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> I was happy to read your response and the other responses from Dave etc.
> because my intention with the IDE is to keep things in discussion.
> People who have already written code or fragments (e.g. like Graeme Burke)
> remember it and share it with the public. Intresting Links come up (like
the one from Dave).
>
> So at the end its not my intention that things go just the way
> I was showing before, but to "keep things moving".
>
> Because of that your idea's about the IDE are very welcome and help the
community to let the new-IDE "grow in mind" till the date when it gets "to
material software".
>
> Just one thing I am not shure we was talking from the same:
> ****
> 1. "... the VB-IDE can "reload" a "already saved" File and then you can
> change the "visual controls" ...
> --At present, when you save a file as a "project", you can in fact reopen
> that project and make changes to the controls, and those changes are
> reflected in the produced code;
> ****
> Maybe I should talk from "add missing controls instead of" "change".
>
> Yes, we can reload Project files. I want to reload ".exw"-File instead.
>
> Reloading "project-files" is intresting if you have a lot of "templates"
for programm-surfaces and you choose ONE of them to stat building a new
project.
>
> But (at least I am working like this ...) normally I use the IDE (and I am
really happy to have one !) to built the "skeleton" of the program and then
I continue work by loading the "resulting" ".exw"-File into an "real Editor"
with Syntax-Coloring, "search and replace" and other "Editor-Features".
>
> After changing things in the ".exw" File, its not more possible to
"reload" the changed ".exw"-File code into the IDE, so that was the point
> I had trouble in the first days when I used it.
>
> Now I create missing control's "by hand". Otherwise I would have to reload
the ".prj"-FIle into the ide, make the changes. Copy the resulting new code
to the already modified ".exw"-File. If things were in the way I want them,
there would be no need for an ".project"-File because the information is in
the ".exw"-File contained. Or if I had an Editor in the IDE, I could stay
there with the code.
>
> Again I imagine that "Euphoria-professionals" and beginners may have a
diffrent "Viewpoints" at these subjects. As a professional you have already
built "your bridge over the water" and in daily work you may not even notice
that there were problems in earlier time.
>
> Thanks for support
> -- Theo Gottwald
> *******************
> http://www.theogott.de
>
>
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