Anonymous - 2002-07-29

Hi,

I believe the following are development issues and so appropriate for this forum.  Please forgive me if I'm mistaken.  For reference, I'm using v4.9.4.1 on a Win2k machine.

1)  Would be nice to see improvements to the following limitations I'm experiencing with the Integrated Debugging. . .
- Can only put 4 variables on the watch list
- Values don't update when stepping through the code--have to "Edit Watch" then retype the same variable to get it to update
- If I "watch" an array variable, I can only see the first element of the array.  Only way to see the entire array is to watch each element separately.  Would be nice to see the entire array in a single "watch"
- Be nice to be able to "float" the watch list in a separate window vs it being locked at the bottom of the Dev-C++ workspace

2) Multi-language support.
Since gcc already has frontends for several languages (besides just c/c++), it would be nice to see this multi-language support incorporated within the Dev-C++ IDE.  E.g., (my case) writing a mathematical simulation in C but wanting to make use of some of the already well developed and polished numerical packages written in Fortran.

3) Bug in stdio.h?
Mentioned this in a post in the Bloodshed Software Forum but, in case the developers don't frequent that discussion. . . When using the -ansi flag, stdio.h won't compile because of the "inline" keyword in a couple of places. 

4) help files
I understand help files for the beta versions are still under development.  Would be nice in the mean time if you could include an older complete version of the help file (say from v4.01) with the beta releases until the new help files are done.

Thanks.
Scott