jaPBe future, let's discuss.

dagcrack · Post by **dagcrack** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 11:51 pm

Okey jaPBe is in my opinion a great IDE for PureBasic. The author "dropped" the development. He has aquired the sources, whenever its needed we can fix any bugs and add features. Thats okey. I already had added some stuff to my jaPBe but im willing to know if anyone is still using GPI's nice IDE and if they'll like to tell me about anything they would add or they already added so we can at least make the IDE compatible with next releases of PB and just, keep it up when needed.

I started to add some stuff to my jaPBe, for example.. the programs now compiles with a default icon (PB's icon) as a request of someone and my request as well.

okasvi · Post by **okasvi** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 1:54 am

i would be interested about up2date jaPBe since some stuff i fell in love while PB IDE wasnt good enough for me... now it goes ok but still missing some jaPBe stuff

Post by **Dare2** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 2:15 am

Heya dagcrack,

Glad to hear you're looking at taking on maintenance of JaPBe.

I have no specific requests, but would be interested in getting updated versions.

Onya!

dagcrack · Post by **dagcrack** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:35 am

Ouch

Im willing to help the community if thats needed though, I've been modifing it a little just to suit my needs but i'll be looking forward your requests. so far it works nice in 3.94 i'll see whats needed to add ? I just dont want to take over on the author.

Post by **Dare2** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:59 am

dagcrack wrote:Ouch

Same deal.

I've recompiled it a few times, but when you see all the "support calls" GPI went through, there's not a lot of motivation to take it on and provide support.

So I thought I'd take the opportunity to pass the buck ..

.. to you ..

.. at least until GPI escapes from WOW.

dagcrack · Post by **dagcrack** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:06 am

hahahah very true
mmorpgs are taking over the good people again

(not that im bad people - but I dont like those games!).

ricardo · Post by **ricardo** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:37 am

JaPBe is a nice editor, great idea if you continue it!!

-Markers/Marks (Thats REALLY needed in one editor and i think JaPBe dont have it)
- Browse into your installed libs ot see the names of the procedures inside your user libraries

Thanks

dagcrack · Post by **dagcrack** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 7:48 am

Yes it doesnt support markers. But they are useful when you've got an extense piece of source. So you should be able to bind the markers with your keyboard (like in RTS games hehe) and browse them with the keys.

Lib browser sounds good as well.

I wonder if scintilla supports adding an icon at the left margin.. someone could think of a hack if not ...

Although the lib browser could be developed as a plugin by anyone

PB · Post by PB » Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:43 am

> Markers/Marks (Thats REALLY needed in one editor and i think JaPBe dont have it)

The PureBasic editor has them.

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:13 am

All that i really miss from japbe is the cool auto-indent and source formatting! Eg you can select a source that is very bad formatted, select all and press ctrl+tab and all is nice!

GedB · Post by **GedB** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:37 pm

I think jaPBe served it purpose. I don't think the new IDE would have been anywhere near as good as it is now if it hadn't been for jaPBe raising th bar so high.

GPI has moved on now. His work here is done

dagcrack · Post by **dagcrack** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:47 pm

However I dont like the new IDE as much as I like jaPBe. I wont stop using something because its been dropped. Im not conformist sorry.

All that i really miss from japbe is the cool auto-indent and source formatting! Eg you can select a source that is very bad formatted, select all and press ctrl+tab and all is nice!

True its very useful. Even after editing a source after some bug hunting the formatting might be a little off.. so you just auto-format it again and thats all. although, for arrays for example.. when I DIM an array and I set some values under the dim.. I do it like this:

Code: Select all

 Dim Hello.s(3)
  
  FilterButtons(0) = "5675"
  FilterButtons(1) = "fsdfsdf"
  FilterButtons(2) = "xcv  vxv"
  FilterButtons(3) = "Gdfsdfe"

if you apply auto indent you'll lose the tabbing on that part.. that, to me, is a problem as I like to tab under DIM whenever I got to define something at that moment. Its not big deal but oh well I dont like that going on. I'll see what I can do when I get spare time.

Dräc · Post by **Dräc** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 12:26 pm

Hello.

First:
What is the current status of jaPBe. Does someone courageous make some releases or not? (dagcrack?)

Second:
Since I work with WinXP, the « FindInFile » of jaPBe doesn’t work: nothing appends
Is it true for anyone?

Someone has already fixed it?

Thanks

gnozal · Post by **gnozal** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:31 pm

dagcrack wrote:However I dont like the new IDE as much as I like jaPBe. I wont stop using something because its been dropped. Im not conformist sorry.

Same here ! I can't let go jaPBe ...
I am ready to update the french translation if needed (as I did for GPI), maybe I'll even try to patch jaPBe.
I hope the purebasic team will explain the changes that make the compiler incompatible with jaPBe.

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 2:50 pm

i let go of japbe in favour of the new ide, there are still a number of things that bother me though... some of them i've solved with an external tool (codecaddy) some of them will have to wait for the next ide release...

(i still have this dream of writing a rad'ish environment for pure, so that's why i'm not too much hung up on japbe and / or the official ide)