IDE Enhancement List

[Michael Vogel]

Here are some ideas for a better (?) IDE...

Editor
• Backup: Allow to create *.bak files when a source will be saved manually (not done when doing a test run)

Search and Replace
• Find Dialog: Shortcuts (Alt+W for 'Whole Words only', Alt+N for 'Find Next' etc.)
• Regular Expressions: at least simple things to find HideGadget(blah,1) and HideGadget(blah,#True) easily
• Find: Highlight all found locations in source text

Tools & Tool Panels
• Constants: Show values in separate column, allow to switch hex/decimal, full text search
• Procedures: Highlight name of procedure of actual cursor position in list, highlight procedure calls in source text
• Variables: Highlight all occurences of a selected variable in the source text

[Ramihyn_]

Search and Replace
• Results: Add a "Copy to clipboard" button so we can feed the results into tools for automated processing

[Michael Vogel]

Maybe (some of these ideas) could be realized in the final relase of the new PB 5.1?

The shortcuts wouldn't be a great deal to implement, but would save a lot of time when working with the IDE...

[Fred]

Session history provides a much better backup like system.