Vertical edge for the IDE

[Mistrel]

I understand that the IDE does not support line continuation but I would at least like some degree of conscious control over the width of my code. Especially when I write comments I have no idea how far to the right I'm really going.

By vertical edge I mean this vertical line that tells you the width of your code in characters. In other languages I like to keep the width within 80 characters. And in PureBasic, where possible, I would like to do the same.

[eesau]

Scintilla supports those kind of vertical dividers natively so I think it'd be fairly trivial to implement. I'd use this feature too.

[PB]

Why don't you drag the Tools Panel to the required width point?

[eesau]

Why don't you drag the Tools Panel to the required width point?

I keep my Tools Panel on the left. Besides, you can set the divider precisely to column 80, which you can't do with the Tools Panel.

[Mistrel]

Why don't you drag the Tools Panel to the required width point?

Err.. what if I want to change the font or font size? Or if I shrink the IDE then the code section gets squished and I'm back to square one.

[PB]

I see. I didn't realize you were going to resize the IDE or change its font often.
It was just the first thing I thought of that I assumed would be a good solution.

[Mistrel]

Bumping this since we now have the ability to split lines.

[kenmo]

+1

For a few years I have enabled Scintilla edge lines (and some other Scintilla features not utilized by the PB IDE) using external tools, for example (Windows):

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; Compile this, add it as an IDE Tool, with the "New" and "Load" triggers
;
*Sci = Val(GetEnvironmentVariable("PB_TOOL_Scintilla"))
If *Sci
  Color = SendMessage_(*Sci, #SCI_STYLEGETBACK, #STYLE_LINENUMBER, #Null)
  SendMessage_(*Sci, #SCI_SETEDGECOLOUR, Color,      #Null)
  SendMessage_(*Sci, #SCI_SETEDGECOLUMN, 80,         #Null)
  SendMessage_(*Sci, #SCI_SETEDGEMODE,   #EDGE_LINE, #Null)
EndIf

EDIT: Updated example to use a color from your current color scheme.

[Mistrel]

That's great! Thank you.