after having renamed a variable or another component and the ide did not succeed to rename them itself.
Those IDEs slowed down my development cyclus by creating overhead to my source code which only served academic rules.
My wish would be a good resource editor to replace the good old Borland one.
Of course this is a personal question. But i prefer coding my programs by 'typing' and not by 'mousing'.
With pur FiveWin and a good RE i will develop more rapidly as with any IDE.
I am sorry, but I must agree Detlef. I am faster, too, without an IDE, I just need a resource editor and a text editor/compiler tool for xBase (like xMate, UeStudio, ...).
Understanding and correcting the generated code takes much time. Years ago (at the beginning of the "harbour century") I had to decide, to use the successor of clipper, Visual Objects, or to use fivewin. I tested both, and the cryptic code from VO was horrible, hardly to understand. So I kept using Fivewin, IMHO the best solution for me and many other users.
What we need is only a good resource editor, which fits the need of the modern operating systems.
Lots of IDE's to chose from .. xHarbour has one ( very respectable ) .. but remember the IDE you chose determines your programming style ( libraries too ) .. Like Datlef mentions .. if your IDE doesn't like some piece of individual code ( try pure ado which is very code intensive ) .. your IDE will ( generally ) not be flexable enough to allow you to work 'outside the box'.
I have faught DreamWeaver .. our Staff has given up on Dreamweaver.. actually Borlands IDE ( c++ and delphi ) has been replaced by MS Visual Studio in our environment.
What is amazing to me is that I can write my programs in half the time the IDE'rs 'dink' with Visual Studio .. forgive me as I am not trying to be-little anyones platform .. I am not expecting for free .. SI has a ( close ) Borland replacement .. but .. not quite..
Just a 32 bit resource editor .. The componants I use most are:
1: Tool pallate and alignment pallate
2: standard windows controls and line drawings
3: Edit as text
4: generate unique id's per control
5: set order
6: double click on control to edit properties, captions, attributes, tab stop
7: create a .rc without header include statements
8: formated like this .. ( typical brw output )
We brazilians use xDevStudio (from Vailton). I ask Vailton times ago and he have plans to translate it to English and Spanish. xDev is a great (free) tool that have all MED editor have and tools like code completion that is very very good (like Delphi, VB, etc.).
The only thing xDev have not yet is a RC editor...
Perhaps it would be helpful if everyone listed the features that they would like most to have in a new resource editor.
Rick Lipkin listed this:
1) just a clean header free ( text ) .rc and formated correctly!
I would most like it to remember the last path when loading bitmaps. Borland forgets each time and I have to make about 10-15 mouse clicks to add each bitmap. This gets very tedious.
2) Remember last path to each resource type added to the project.
Here are a couple more things I would like:
3) Be able to put a dialog on a folder inside the RE so you can get the size and position correct.
4) Be able to set the styles of controls via checkboxes rather than having to add the manifest constants.
. I think we better have a visual report designer rather than a resource generator or an IDE.