Re: Wishlist IDE * Reload ".exw"-Files
- Posted by Matthew Lewis <MatthewL at KAPCOUSA.COM> Nov 10, 2000
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------_=_NextPart_000_01C04B39.D15E6A7E charset="iso-8859-1" > From: Gottwald, <SNIP> > 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. Back in the days of EuDesigner by Brian Jackson, I wrote a little utility to convert from a win32lib IDE .prj file to a EuDesigner .eup file. I basically copied a bunch of code from the IDE and EuDesigner to do most of the work for me. You could take a similar approach, but map an .exw file to a .prj file. I attached the file. It worked fine, except that EuDesigner couldn't handle multiple windows, so it choked on multiple window projects (which originally inspired me to break up the code for each window into separate files--and then delete the WinMain() that was inserted). Then there could be an 'import' feature within the IDE. I'd think that it would be best to hide this from the user, and simply automatically convert an .exw file when opened. Also, support for .ew files (designed to be includes) might be a good idea. The only real difference should be that WinMain() isn't tacked onto the end of it. Ooh, and maybe multiple files, where you've got a .prj that actually points to other .prx/.prw files or something that actually handle the code. Then we could work with includes directly within the project (a la <gasp> VC++ or Visual Interdev--and probably lots others, too). Hmmm, time to finally integrate MDI support into win32lib? Matt Lewis http://www.realftp.com/matthewlewis ------_=_NextPart_000_01C04B39.D15E6A7E name="PRJ2EUP.zip"