Feature Request - ToDo List (or notes)

[sgalland]

Hello,

I would like to say I have been playing with PureBasic for months and I love it. I finally broke down today and purchased it since I have a project to actually work on. It's a great language development tool, thank you.

Anyhow, the reason I am posting is that I have noticed that there isn't any way to leave notes in the IDE in a way that Visual Studio has (TODO list) or just a simple way to add note fields. If this cannot be added to the IDE, is there a way to write a plugin for the IDE?

It's a small addition, but since I program a lot and have a tendancy to be forgetful, I sometimes have to leave obvious reminders to myself.

Thanks,
Sean Galland

[Polo]

Would love to have that

[Kuron]

This is one of those things where one size does not fit all.

There are some lovely free todo programs out there, and I think you can find one or more floating around the forum.

[Shield]

What I think would be nice if some kind of "interactive" comments interpreted by the IDE, for example:

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; TODO: Do this now!
; HACK: This is only a hack! Fix it ASAP!
; WARNING: Code is highly unstable, has to be improved!

The IDE would then parse those comments and display them in a list.

[KJ67]

What I think would be nice if some kind of "interactive" comments interpreted by the IDE, for example:

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; TODO: Do this now!
; HACK: This is only a hack! Fix it ASAP!
; WARNING: Code is highly unstable, has to be improved!

The IDE would then parse those comments and display them in a list.

Now that is a good idea!
If we could configure the IDE with self-defined key words that would affect the links and if the links also could be in a (optional) tree structure all 'TODO:' 'HACK:'" etc would be easy to find and keep an overview.

[Kiffi]

What I think would be nice if some kind of "interactive" comments interpreted by the IDE, for example: [...]

+1

Greetings ... Kiffi

[skywalk]

I use the Procedures Tab
Not sure why '!' has priority over other ASCII chars?

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;-! TODO LIST
;-!1. Do this ...
;-!2. and that ...
;-!3. still more ...
;-!99. End of TODO LIST
Procedure Foo(x,y,z) ;- Do nothing
  ProcedureReturn
EndProcedure

[sgalland]

Thats a cool way to do it, using the procedures tab.

Maybe I will just have to writer a HTML generator. Scan the .pb files or something simple. It's not a huge deal. I guess sticky notes on my monitor (or in Windows 7) works too

[kenmo]

I manually keep TODO and BUGS lists in the comments near the top of my code...

I also mark lines of code that need later attention with my own ;? mark, to make quick searching simple.

An IDE feature might be nice, but like Kuron said, it will be hard to implement it a way that everyone likes.

Not sure why '!' has priority over other ASCII chars?

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Debug '!'
Debug 'A'

[skywalk]

Haha kenmo, yes, I had the Ascii Table open too!
What I meant to ask was why the ' ' space char is not higher priority than the '!' exclamation point?
I chose '!' because all ' ' space char's are trimmed following a ';-' combo.
It actually works out pretty well as it is, just don't know if freak and/or scintilla is doing this?
Also, I have my preferences set to show the Procedures alphabetically, since I use a naming prefix for common functions.
Like, 'SF_' for StringFunctions or 'ML_' for MathLib, etc.

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;-! TODO LIST
;-!1. Do this ...
;-!2. and that ...
;-!3. still more ...
;-!99. End of TODO LIST

;- 0. TODO LIST
;- 1. Do this ...
;- 2. and that ...
;- 3. still more ...
;- 99. End of TODO LIST
Procedure Foo(x,y,z) ;- Do nothing
  ProcedureReturn
EndProcedure
;-            Leading spaces are trimmed
;-when viewed in the Procedures Tab.