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Dear @Lunasole, thank so much for this code example --- it really gives a new light to my project! I did notice that in PB Help file it mentions two environment vars in relation to this topic: PB_TOOL_MainWindow and PB_TOOL_Scintilla , saying they are handles to the IDE, but without and example I co...

I have and editor which has a menu entry "Save Project Snapshot" which allows to save copies of the currently open project file, with the date timestamp added to it. It opens the file-save dialog with the filename already set to " [ project file name ] - [ year_month_day ]-[ 2-digits ...

I'm working on a tool which manipulates PB source code. It's manually invoked from the menu, and gets passed the %FILE and %TEMPFILE tokens. I just wanted a confirmation on an issue, because documentation isn't too explicit about it. If I've understood correctly, when configuring tools in PB IDE, th...

Hi everybody, I'm, glad to announce that I've just release NTC (Name That Color), a command line utility that accepts color definitions (hex or RGB) as input, and returns the color's name: $ ntc #ff4020 Pomegranate $ ntc 120,80,200 Fuchsia Blue You can dowload the source code (PB 5.42) —or a precomp...

Is the Unicode-only mode going to affect Windows console applications? I've just finished a console project with PB 5.42, and I had to compile it in Ascii mode because I realized that in Unicode mode error messages sent to STDERR were posing problems under certain conditions. If I used the app direc...

Some user implementations are here: http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=65095&hilit=paste+as+comment Thanks for the link @kenmo! didn't realize some users' workarounds were already available — but doesn't surprise me either, this should be a common problem to all of us IDE u...

When pasting in the IDE some non-code text, it gets "cleaned up" as if was source code (ie: words like "not", "and", "if", "or", ecc., get capitalized as if they were keywords: "Not", "And", "If", ecc.). Needless to say,...

It would be nice to have in the dialog window of Tools » Configure Tools… an option to save/load (import/export) tools settings on a per-tool basis. This would allow to distribute any external tool with a ready-2-go config file, sparing users from manually setting all needed parameters and options. ...

Hi @holzhacker, good to know the project is alive and kicking. I also noticed you'r personal website is reachable again (in the past it was blocked by some browsers). If you can wait a week or two so that I can prepare the code and a brief documentation I can upload the code and initially share Pure...

Hi @Lunasole, thanks for your quick reply. CodeAngel seems a very handy tool — I also resort to archiving work files under a single zip file with progressive numbering and/or dates, especially during draft work, and if I am working alone on a project. And I guess most programmers take this path, wet...

What about a custom project configuration syntax? Maybe the whole issue of versioning PB projects could be approached by developing a custom cross-platform project configuration file syntax, and a tool that could translate these syntax files into standard .pbp files. Ideally, this tool could rely o...

Dear @Henry00, thanks a lot for this great tool and for maintaining it. I need to ask you some more info on how PBHGEN handles modules. From the documentation I haven't understood clearly how it goes about them: does it create separate files (with naming convention filename.modname.pbi )? And how do...

Then my friend, you are invited to join the project. I believe it starts a wave of collaborative projects in PB controlled by the fossil and distributed and supported here in the PB forums. :) In fact you can even use as a tool of the IDE and in conjunction with a "PureBasic Project", but...

I agree with what @Shield sayd: 1. The project file (*.pbp) contains user-defined settings Check out the following XML section from the project file: <section name="data"> <!-- edit: paths are also not platform compatible. --> <explorer view="C:\Users\*user*\*project*\" pattern=&...

Thanks a lot @Lunasole! Good point about using static, and thanks for the tip on Process Hacker: I've just donwload it and it looks promising — I was using Process Explorer, but this tool seems to give more granul control. In my case, the nested procedure calls related to a set of procedures, not ne...