Alternative or Supplemented IDE

[Don Ewald]

Greetings!

I've been shopping around for an alternative to my current way of programming.

Currently, I've a batch file that loads up BonBon and PQSyntax. BonBon is a TSR that allows you to easily move to your various SUBs and FUNCTIONs. PQSyntax is a syntax colourizer for PowerBASIC. This combination allows me to easily add some more features and still use the PowerBASIC compiler.

Other alternatives that I've found:

Free:
Power Basic Editor & Parser
Jellyfish
PowerIDE
Programmer's File Editor

Commercial:
PDE4PB ($70-$130 - Unreleased)
UltraEdit ($30)
SemWare Editor ($99+)

...has anyone found any others? I'm actually quite pleased with the PowerBASIC compiler but I'd like two more features. A syntax colourizer and I don't want to see all of my code at one time. I like how PDS 7.1 will modularize my code and I don't have to see all of SUBs and FUNCTIONs at once. Granted, I know some people like it; but, I don't. Of course, I'd also want the IDE to go to any errors found during compiling.

Any thoughts or suggestions...?


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Don Ewald
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[Lance Edmonds]

Stephane Fonteyne was writing one with PB/DOS and PB/Vision... you could ask him how he is getting on with it (I don't have his email address, sorry).

Also, James C Fuller has one for PB/DLL (PBWINADP)... www.jcfuller.com

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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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[Don Ewald]

greetings again!

i attempted to contact mr. fonteyne but he hasn't replied to his email yet.

i noticed a posting in third-party addons that mentions another powerbasic editor by heber jorge da silva called pbced--it's free as well.


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don ewald
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[Matthias Kuhn]

Greetings Don,

I´ve tested the "bonbon-program" and I found it useable,

I´ve the "Power-Tools" from Dirk Hilger the Autor of Bonbon.

I´ve found a little thing:

if have code like this
$include "one"
$include "two"

the second function - list and select all include file is then
not full infunction - You can´t select the include files.

You need to have code like:

$include "one.bas"
$include "two.bas"

the next point is that only the sub´s and function´s of the
-now edited file- are displayed.

I´would wish that all sub´s and function´s of the whole file
and the include files are displayed.

Has anyone the source code of "bonbon" ?

Regards from Germany

Matthias Kuhn

email:[email protected]

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