[Dev-C++] (Easy to implement) Feature Requests

[Martin O. <li...@mi...>]

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