RE: [GD-General] dev environments
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From: Tom N. <t.n...@vr...> - 2001-12-21 11:15:57
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Hi, I find Borland's Delphi IDE to be pretty hard to beat. It has a very elaborate class library behind it, including a comprehensive GUI construction toolkit. You hardly ever need to mess with the Win32 API, there's no need for MFC or ActiveX controls or whatever, and the graphical GUI editing works great. It's like Visual Basic, only without the disadvantages :-) The Object Pascal language behind Delphi is, in my modest opinion, also a step up from C++. Coincidentally, I believe it originated on the Mac -- is there a pattern emerging here? I don't know if Apple still uses it today, though. Perhaps it got replaced by Obj-C? Finally, there's also a Linux version available ("Kylix"). I have no personal experience with this, but I've had reports from people who compiled the OpenGL demos from my website on Linux, without significant problems. > When they added > auto-completion for members when typing "." or "->" on a > member -- wow, how helpful is THAT? Or being able to click on > something and say "Show me your definition". Yeah, except "Show me your definition" only works _after_ you've compiled the project with browse info. If you wipe out your "Debug" and "Release" directories, your browsing abilities are gone. Delphi allows you to browse your code at _all_ times, compiled or not, and even if you _would_ have to compile it, it'd take about two seconds to do a complete rebuild of your entire project, as opposed to several minutes if you were using VC++. Oh, and did I mention that you can get Delphi for free? :-) -- Tom |