Hi,
I have three feature requests for Dev-CPP, one is a little bit of work
to implement (first one) the two other is very easy to implement but
extremely useful. Comments on these features are welcome.
1. A "Web Tools" that provides an "Publish project as HTML" option. This
command should use FTP or SCP to connect to a file-server and upload
HTML files to this server containing the syntax highlighted code of the
current project. This option would be very helpful when you're working
on open-source projects (source is no secret anyway) and you need to ask
for help about something. I've used services such as www.rafb.net/paste
quite often but it takes time and often the bugs are in another file, or
the guy who is helping out needs to look at some other file. Using this
command I publish all of it at once and then they helping guy could
broswe around as he whishes.
2. VERY VERY SIMPLE. An option in the project menu that counts the
number of lines in all project files (.h and .cpp/.c).
3. VERY SIMPLE. A would like a new option in the File/New menu, it
should be called new "Source Pair" or something like that. When clicked
a dialog should appear asking for a name, if I enter MyName here it
should create myname.h and myname.cpp (if IDE is in C++ mode) otherwise
myname.h and myname.c (if IDE is in C mode). In the .c/.cpp file it
should already say #include "myname.h" and in the .h file it should have
written out the usual macro hack everybody uses, ie:
#ifndef MYNAME_HEADER_INCLUDED
#define MYNAME_HEADER_INCLUDED
//code goes here
#endif /* MYNAME_HEADER_INCLUDED */
Going even futher one could implement something similar to Eclipse's
option "New Class", and if the user types "MyClass" in the dialog then
Dev-cpp creates both a .h file with the above macro-hack and also a
declaration "class MyClass" etc etc.
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Even though the syntax-completion engine is abit buggy at times, Dev-CPP
is a great tool and I really enjoy using it! Keep up the good work!!
regards,
martin olsson
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