[WIN] IDE: a modification, does auto-paste routines
I've made a modification of Judith's elaboration of David's IDE, and sent it
in to RDS.
It gives the user the ability to "auto-paste" the *general form* of any
Euphoria or Win32Lib routine into their program, from a list of all the
routines. This gives the IDE user a couple of good things:
1. the *categorized* lists of the routines help newbies & others *see* what
all routines are in fact available for use;
2. auto-pasting the "general form" of the routine lets the user know
whether the routine is a function or procedure, and see what parameters it
takes, and saves time & typing mistakes.
There's a batch file included which allows easy switching back and forth
between the original IDE and the modification.
To use the mod,
1. switch to it via the batch file (not necessary to use the batch switch
every time, just to switch);
2. then, in the Code Editor, click on a Euphoria or Win32Lib category,
click on a routine in that category, then move the cursor in the editor
where you want the routine to be and right click for "paste", & the routine
will be pasted at the cursor.
In the future, I will be adding the ability to jump directly to the html
help documentation for each individual routine, and possibly a tooltip short
description of each routine, too. (Kat found me a way to do the jumps to
named places in the html docs, thanks Kat!)
This modification works with Win32Lib v0.50, and IDE v0.9k4, and *must* be
in the same folder as the IDE. It also helps to be in the same folder as
Win32Lib (to be able to open the Win32Lib help doc, and the Wdemos, from the
IDE). A batch file is provided to switch back and forth between the
original IDE and the modification. The batch file renames a "txt" file into
a "bat" file, so there would be *two* batch files after the first use, one
to switch to the mod, and another to switch to the original IDE.
Make *sure* you put the mod in the same folder as the IDE *FIRST*, before
you use the batch file to try to switch to the mod; if you use the batch
file with the mod *not* in the same folder as the IDE, and then move the mod
files into a folder with the IDE, you will set up the possibility of
deleting a necessary component of the IDE. This won't happen if you use the
batch file in a folder *with* the IDE the first time, because it makes a
*backup* of that component *if* it's there (it also makes a second batch
file for switching back to the original; this provides protection from
deleting the IDE component *if* you started *in* a folder with the IDE, but
*not* if you start *outside* that folder). I should have made the batch
file so this couldn't happen at all, but a word to the wise should be
sufficient for now, I hope.
I think IDE users will find this interesting & useful.
Dan Moyer
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