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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

Would love to have that

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.

What I think would be nice if some kind of "interactive" comments interpreted by the IDE, for example: The IDE would then parse those comments and display them in a list.

Shield wrote: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.

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

+1

Greetings ... Kiffi

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

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

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.

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

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.