Is it possible to set up Dev-C to display arrows that indicate (by curly braces) the beginning and end of code blocks in a column left of the code window. I found those very helpfull when I used Visual C++.
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If you feel a feature is useful, needs to be added, I encourage you to go to the line of links near the top of the web page, there is a link called "RFE". It will show you what has already been requested, and give you a chance to provide your input in a way that it is "on the record" and will not get lost.
Realize though that the development team is quite small, so things can take time.
Wayne
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A freely available IDE that has a similar feature is MingWStudio (it is developed by one person and not open source). You can find it at http://www.parinyasoft.com
I also believe the eclipse editor has a similar feature. I don't use eclipse because I find it too sluggish - it was also a pain to set up (you will need to download MSYS from http://mingw.org and install it inside of MSYS). It also does not work (eclipse) on a Win9x platform, since Win9x does not support named pipes. You can get more info on eclipse here http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecc/.
The feature these editors provide is called code folding, whereby you can collapse a block of code - I find it quite useful.
I believe I remember (perhaps incorrectly) that the dev-cpp team is looking at moving to using the scintella editor (which provides code folding).
I don't remember this feature in Visual Studio (5 or 6 - maybe it is in version 7, but I don't recall seeing it - although to be honest, I don't use Visual Studio .NET a whole lot).
rr
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Anonymous
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2005-05-06
Dev-C++ already has a brace highlighting feature. On the Tools->Editor options->General dialog. Is that possibly a good substitute for what you are looking for. I must say, I;ve never seen this feature, and from your description I am not sure what it does.
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Is it possible to set up Dev-C to display arrows that indicate (by curly braces) the beginning and end of code blocks in a column left of the code window. I found those very helpfull when I used Visual C++.
If you feel a feature is useful, needs to be added, I encourage you to go to the line of links near the top of the web page, there is a link called "RFE". It will show you what has already been requested, and give you a chance to provide your input in a way that it is "on the record" and will not get lost.
Realize though that the development team is quite small, so things can take time.
Wayne
A freely available IDE that has a similar feature is MingWStudio (it is developed by one person and not open source). You can find it at http://www.parinyasoft.com
I also believe the eclipse editor has a similar feature. I don't use eclipse because I find it too sluggish - it was also a pain to set up (you will need to download MSYS from http://mingw.org and install it inside of MSYS). It also does not work (eclipse) on a Win9x platform, since Win9x does not support named pipes. You can get more info on eclipse here http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecc/.
The feature these editors provide is called code folding, whereby you can collapse a block of code - I find it quite useful.
CodeBlocks is another IDE that has code folding. You can pick it up here http://www.codeblocks.org/.
I believe I remember (perhaps incorrectly) that the dev-cpp team is looking at moving to using the scintella editor (which provides code folding).
I don't remember this feature in Visual Studio (5 or 6 - maybe it is in version 7, but I don't recall seeing it - although to be honest, I don't use Visual Studio .NET a whole lot).
rr
Dev-C++ already has a brace highlighting feature. On the Tools->Editor options->General dialog. Is that possibly a good substitute for what you are looking for. I must say, I;ve never seen this feature, and from your description I am not sure what it does.