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A word of thanks

Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:59 am
by srod
Hi,

my turn to show some appreciation to the PB team. :)

I have been an active member of these forums and a user of PB itself for about seven years now and whilst my enthusiasm for this development tool has never wavered in all of that time, I must say that one feature recently added to the PB toolkit has made a huge difference to me and the ease with which I am able to bash out my particular brand of loony code! :wink: A feature which I am sure many will disagree as to it's relative importance, but as I say, for myself, this is making a huge huge difference whilst working on very complex projects.

That feature.... IDE projects with autocomplete spanning all project files!

An absolute boon for me. My projects typically span many many source files and whilst the auto-complete feature (or absence of it across the multiple files) never really affected me, having this facility has boosted my productivity ten-fold; literally. My flabber is well and truly gasted! Anyone who has not made use of this facility as yet is advised to do so - at least for the more complex projects you may work on. I must admit that when the feature was first voiced I was not convinced as to it's worth without having a true modular base for our projects (where individual modules are compiled to individual object files etc.) but the aforementioned auto-completion more than makes up for this imo.

So, thank-you Fred, Timo, Bericko, Rings... for making an already delightful tool even better and easier to use. I couldn't be happier. In fact, I might just celebrate in my tried and tested method of tearing down the street stark naked whilst my tenor voice booms out across the town... ah why not, the sun is showing for the first time in months... sounds like a plan to me. :)

Re: A word of thanks

Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:14 pm
by Fangbeast
In fact, I might just celebrate in my tried and tested method of tearing down the street stark naked whilst my tenor voice booms out across the town... ah why not, the sun is showing for the first time in months... sounds like a plan to me. :)
Oh hell no. That thought has just seared itself into my retinal cortex and I am reaching for the 44 gallon drum full of valium!! Thanks a damn lot!!

Re: A word of thanks

Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:19 pm
by srod
Fangbeast wrote:
In fact, I might just celebrate in my tried and tested method of tearing down the street stark naked whilst my tenor voice booms out across the town... ah why not, the sun is showing for the first time in months... sounds like a plan to me. :)
Oh hell no. That thought has just seared itself into my retinal cortex and I am reaching for the 44 gallon drum full of valium!! Thanks a damn lot!!
I thought you only kept drums of vaseline, not valium? I mean a ferret without vaseline... oh dear!

Re: A word of thanks

Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:30 pm
by freak
Thanks, its nice to hear that.

While this feature doesn't look like much on the changes list, the autocomplete rework was actually the largest change i ever made to the IDE. In fact, more lines have been changed/added in the IDE between 4.30 and 4.40 than the original (pre 3.94) IDE ever had. :D

Re: A word of thanks

Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:40 pm
by Fred
Man, stop bashing this good old IDE :P. Thanks srod for the kind words and btw for all the time you spend helping all the (new) guys here.

Re: A word of thanks

Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:51 pm
by srod
freak wrote:Thanks, its nice to hear that.

While this feature doesn't look like much on the changes list, the autocomplete rework was actually the largest change i ever made to the IDE. In fact, more lines have been changed/added in the IDE between 4.30 and 4.40 than the original (pre 3.94) IDE ever had. :D
It is clear that adding this facility would have been a heck of a lot of work- a huge amount. A very impressive addition. :)
Fred wrote:Thanks srod for the kind words and btw for all the time you spend helping all the (new) guys here.
Anyone having my assistance will be taking one step forward, followed immediately by 2500 steps backwards! :wink:

Re: A word of thanks

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 1:03 pm
by luis
Hi srod, I read you made an OOP version of your grid control.

Did you solve in some way the problem of showing the help for the methods of your ExGRID class in the status bar of the PB editor ?

Please see this for an example of what I mean: http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... 79#p317879

I'm about to start the work on a graphic library opengl based, but I haven't decided yet if I should expose a OOP interface or a flat api. One thing I would really dislike would be to not be able to see the help for my methods in the status bar choosing the OOP route.

Or maybe I'm missing something ?

Thanks.

Re: A word of thanks

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 1:09 pm
by srod
Honestly, the statusbar help does not bother me and so this is not something I have thought about. This is something for you to ask Fred / Freak etc.