#177 Major improvements

[Anonymous]

Dev-C++ is great, but there are a few things it really
needs;
1.) Not once have I been able to get vRoach to send its
messages. vRoach needs to be improved so that bugs
can be properly reported
2.) Dev-C++ has a menu for CVS but no CVS program. Either
the CVS menu should be removed or a program should be
included to be acessed by the CVS menu.
3.) Dev-C++ often becomes non-responsive when out of the
blue it decides to parse the entire standard
library. This
should not occur except when the entire standard
library is
included and during compilation-- not editing or
opening a
file.
4.) Dev-C++ needs a resource editor to make win32
programming easier.
5.) Dev-C++ stores much of its information in the
Registry,
which means that if a user has made several
changes to
compiler directories, or various options. The user
will be
forced to make these changes again if he were to zip
and use it as a backup. Therefore, the basic
options other
than language settings and menu style should probably
saved in a file rather than the registry
6.) Dev-C++ seems to assume that all new compilers added
are another version of MinGW. Dev-C++ should prompt
the use to select the type of compiler when new
compilers are added. Such options could be
"MinGW(Default)", "Borland C++", "Lcc-Win", and
"Other", and in the binaries menu for the compilers,
Borland C++ could have something like "main compiler"
or "bcc" instead of "gcc" and Other could have "main
compiler" and "resource compiler" , etc.

Above are the 6 most critical (in my opinion) upgrades
that should be implemented. Lastly, I would suggest
that after the critical changes are made, that Dev-C++
include a form editor for RAD for the purpose of
remaining competitive-- there seem to be several new
opensource IDE's that use the MinGW compiler

[Yiannis Mandravellos]

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5) Dev-C++ does not use the registry except for file
associations. Look for devcpp.ini and devcpp.cfg in:
a) the program dir (Win95/98),
b) \winnt\profiles... (WinNT 4),
c) \documents and settings(user)\local
settings\application data (win2000/XP)
Note: Some of the above dirs are hidden...

6) Dev-C++ is a front-end to the MingW compiler collection
and as far as I know, things will stay that way.

Yiannis.