It would be quite a huge waste of effort if hbide would reinvent the whole feature set of hbmk2.
IMO it should be able to create .hbp files for each project on the fly (from the file lists and options set on the GUI) and call hbmk2 to do this job. Overall I think .xbp file compatibility is unimportant, but of course hbide could use something similar to store the file list and options. Ideally it should store these in .hbp files. This will need a hbmk2 compatible option parser. Brgds, Viktor On 2009 Nov 18, at 10:44, Maurizio la Cecilia wrote: > > Again, about hbIDE, i would know what Pritpal and the community thinks about > some choices i believe strategical in the new project. > > A) A feature of xMate that i think needs to be absolutely present in hbIDE > is the project embedding. I can, i.e., define a production project > enumerating the own files AND adding to xbp also the linked subprojects > (also xbp, of course) as the engine library project, the gui library > project, and so on. This declaration allows to build in cascade the > subprojects and the main project if some change was made in any source, not > important if of main or sub projects. Also, the open file allows to work in > the same instance of xMate editing any source of main or sub projects. > > B) Another very useful tool is the formatter. Obviously, the better choice > is to integrate the hbformat work of Alex Kresin published in the contrib, > after investigating if it lacks of some feature of the highly configurable > formatter of xMate. If is needed some aid about this tool, i could be > useful. > > C) A lack (but maybe the only important) of xMate is about the tiled and > aligned windows, so is needed to open two instances of xMate and to arrange > the windows manually to see two sources simultaneously. The behaviour of the > first hbIDE release mantains the same as xMate, so i think better to > evaluate if a tab rearranging or a MDI approach could be a solution. > > Waiting for your thought about. > Best regards. > Maurizio la Cecilia > > > Maurizio la Cecilia wrote: >> >> Hi Pritpal, >> as very hot fan of xMate and happy user of the product of Andy, i would >> partecipate to your new project. >> You can count on me surely as betatester and, due to prg based >> development, also in working on not critical pieces of the project, if you >> need. >> Many thanks for your effective work, and best regards. >> Maurizio la Cecilia >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/HBIDE---An-Overview-tp26379927p26404961.html > Sent from the Harbour - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) > Harbour@harbour-project.org > http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour