Re: [GD-General] dev environments

[Zach B. <za...@za...>]

Brian Hook wrote:
> A-ha.  Someone sent me a link to www.wholetomato.com and their Visual
> Assist program.  This is the kind of thing I'm talking about!  That's
> definitely a step in the right direction.  I'll have to give it a whirl.

I'm quite happy with it myself.  It crashed and ate up resources until
a recent version (September, I think?) but it was still worth using.

I'm working on a PS2 game and use Developer Studio with Visual Assist.
There are ways to shoehorn foreign code into Developer Studio's slow
and error-prone browsing database, but I get by fine with VA and the
occasional recursive grep.  Any system like this (syntax highlighting,
completion, parameter info, etc.) is only as good as its parser, and
VA's parser seems to handle my code very well and updates itself in the
background whenever I save a project file.  The prime virtue of this
kind of setup is that I rarely have to switch buffers/modes/whatever
to look at declarations and can just concentrate on a single file.

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Zach Baker <za...@za...>
"As a rule, I never touch anything more sophisticated and delicate than myself."