Is there a way to open more than one file at once?

I would like to open my whole project, which is several files. Right now, I click file->open, have to leave the sample directory, find my directory, open the first file, then repeat until all files I need are open.

I can't seem to select all files in order to open them. Is there some short cut? Can I at least change the main directory that it looks to in order to find files?

I think you're only recourse is to use one of the replacement IDE's, like Protean, which have a concept of project files/management.

I'll do a search for it. Is Protean the best?

IMO, it is. http://www.proteanide.co.uk/

The recently used files menu is only two clicks per file...

No offense at all intended to Rob, the author or Protean -- it's a very nice tool and all -- but cripes it's way overpriced. For about $10 less you can get a legit copy of UltraEdit, which is much more capable in many ways, and there's lots of pointers around to get it to work flawlessly with any Blitz.

I don't think I'd ever bother sinking more than $5-$10 into a new blitz-specific IDE, given the Blitz IDE is competent and if I really wanted something more, UltraEdit's already out there.

or Blitzview which is free
http://www.blitzview.de/

Semar did a project-program that does this for you.
It was posted at the BC-site but if you mail him
I'm sure he'll help you.

Protean costs more for a reason. Use it for a few hours and you'll come to see why.

As with anything in life, you get what you pay for. Free products are only free if you don't value your time.

Never said Protean wasn't for =someone=. Just not for me. Regardless, expensive products are not always expensive because they're the best solution. I have yet to see any functionality in Protean that 'blows away' the Blitz IDE so utterly that I'd spend half again as much as I did for Blitz, just for another IDE. And there's certainly nothing so revolutionary in Protean as to recommend it over Ultra.

All IMO naturally. If you do decide to give Protean a try, don't forget that nasty little 24MB download for .NET you'll need as well.

Then, quite honestly, I have to say you really haven't looked closely enough. The intellisense alone (on Blitz functions AND your own - all done in real time) is enough to warrant the price for me.

Intellisense does nothing for me. I turn it off in any other dev apps I use as well for other languages. And before you get your back any further up, yes, I code for a living. Nice, big apps, too. Short summary: there's more than one way to skin that cat, and tooltip popups annoy the hell out of me.

Now like I said previously, I'm not saying it has no utility in general or is not 'of value' -- no need for you to get so sensitive. I don't find it worth the price. You and I code differently. It's not unusal. Deal with the fact that I may not like your favorite flavor of ice cream -- and that, horror of horrors, someone else may from time to time agree with me -- and we'll all get along, eh?

Visual Blitz is nice, by Eddy Blitzmaniac. I'd give you a link but BC is down for the moment.

Oh, and on the bonus side, it's free.

Don't worry, I can't form a coherent reply to this anyway. I'm in such a state of shock at the moment ...


Who's sensitive? Don't like Protean? Fine, don't use it. No skin off my ass. I was just trying to point out that it does have features that other IDE's don't, and that 'free' is an illusion.

Undo would be the biggest