Benoit, The Gambas programming environment would offer a major productivity boost to developers if code Bookmarks were supported in the text editor.
Using my own situation as an example, where I am porting a Windows app that has 300+ classes and close to 120,000 lines of code, it is next to impossible to find related code when one is making a significant change. As an example, I might put a break point in the code and use the debug backtrace to walk my way back through the code looking for code parts that may be affected by my proposed change. Alternatively I might put an early break point in and forward trace the code by using debug stepping. In both cases I currently have to put manual comments in that are coded in a way so that they can be searched or I have to write down the references then go looking for them again when I'm ready to make the change, and that just takes up an awful lot of time that could otherwise be avoided by support for bookmarks. Even on a small project, having no support for bookmarks means you can't set visual clues in your code, so even when you're trying to find something simple you still have to continually scan the code by eye to find the exact spot you know was there earlier. What would it take to convince you to consider implementing such a feature? Of course, the book marks would need to be saved so that they are available the next time the project is opened in the development environment. Wine? Women? Song? Money? Or commonsense? :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
