The Unofficial BlitzBasic Preprocessor final version released!

This time around it includes full C# source, Option Explicit, Type Writing/Reading commands, Code Profiling, Function Macros and more.

Check it out here.

Very cool !!
One question: do you plane to add inlined functions ??

Inline functions were in an earlier version, however I took them out because they were a bit of a kludge, and Macros will perform the same tasks much more easily.

wow :-)

keep up the great work!

Thanks! :)

Very nice! Thank you, thank you

Michael, thanks alot. This version is the first one to work for me. It is Very Good! I found a bug in the #PROFILE directive.




This usually happens to me when I have a Blitz function that returns a custom type and I try to display the custom type object in a DebugLog statement. The custom type must be embedded in the Str() function to output correctly. For example:

Type widget
   Field a, b, c
End Type

Function widgetGet.widget()
  w.widget = New widget

  w\a = 10
  w\b = 20

  ; Notice Str() function here...
  Debuglog "Custom Type Value: "+Str(w)


  Return(w)
End Function

I tried looking through the C# source code, but I do not have C# yet. Anyways, I hope it is an easy fix. :)

Thanks for a great utility.
MK

Eek! I don't know how I let that one through. Its fixed in the next update, which will be up probably today.

A look at what is coming:

Type Some_Type
	
	#FieldGroup1 #FieldGroup2 Field X#, Y#, Z#
	#FieldGroup1 #Byte Field Lives
	#FieldGroup1 #Byte Field Clip_Left
	#FieldGroup2 #Word Distance[ 12 ]
	
End Type

#WriteType Some_Type, Instance, Server_Stream, 1;Write Group 1 Only
#WriteType Some_Type, Instance, Client_Stream, 2;Write Group 2 Only
#WriteType Some_Type, Instance, File_Handle;All Groups...

The #Byte, #Word, #DWord tags only currently work with integers, however this thing is starting to get really really cool...

OK, New Version Released.

It should fix the profiling bug, maybe a few more that I have forgotten about, and also adds the new type options. A description of them is available on the PreProcessor Features page.

A note to anyone who is having trouble getting the preprocessor working.

It requires the .Net Framework. If you don't know if you have it installed, you can find out here.

Something that I am sure will make Beaker very happy - the preprocessor now adds comments and tabs back into your code in the debug window. How cool is that?

Update soon-ish.

New version is up. Its in the same place.

New version including two important bug fixes is up.

Tried to use the profiler.
I coulnt see how it works.
Anyone know how to do it?

Scott.

Ignore last post. Got it working.
Great stuff. This will be really useful.

Scott.

Thanks!

Its really good to know that people are finding all my hard work useful.

Just thought Id let you know Im in the process of installing .Net so I can use your preprocessor. Mainly for the Option Explicit but macros look useful and I want to see the profiler in action.
Looking forward to using it :)

Cool! :)