Has anyone used this?

http://www.blitzmax.com/toolbox/toolbox.php?tool=85

Is this IDE any good or do you use Visual Blitz or the B3D IDE?

Thanks

I used it in it's earlier form for 3drad and it wasn't too bad. Right now I use the B3D IDE.

I use the B3d IDE because it's the only IDE that capitalizes names like Flip,Cls,Wend,Endif,etc.

Um, no... Visual Blitz does this, and whilst I'm not a Protean user, I'm fairly certain it does too. So there's two, at least.


Much to my surprise (given how much of a forum whore I am), I've never heard of it before. Looks nice, so I'm downloading the demo as I speak. I'm still a fan of Visual Blitz (unsupported as it is), but I'm always open to other possibilities if they have something to offer.

@LingOf7s

Have you had a look at this? Does it have the same in it that Visual Blitz has?

Thanks

From memory it was good, but I think I stopped using it due to the strange way the text input worked. I will have to see if it improved.

It wasn't faulty, just worked differently to B3Ds IDE and other text editing SW.

Enigma:

Finally got around to playing with this, and... well.. it didn't go smoothly.

Install.

Get nag screen. No problem there. Click on 'run unregistered' or whatever.

Screen opens. First thing that catches my eye? Garbled and messed-up toolbars. What the? Restart - same thing. Minimise and maximise. Same thing. Alrighty.

Load Blitz file. F5 to run. No response. Check menu. F5 = Test Run. F5 again - nothing. Select 'Test Run (F5)' from menu. Tells me it can't find Blitz3D and I should check my configuration. Fair enough - I'd forgotten I hadn't told it that yet.

Head into configuration and set up where the Blitz3D directory is (based on the example in there, which didn't point to the 'bin' dir or anything, just the Blitz one). Hit F5. Nothing. Open menu item again. "Can't find Blitz3D etc etc". Change configuration to point to Blitz3D 'bin' dir. Repeat previous. No response.

"Enough of that" says I. Head to uninstall. Not supplied with an uninstaller. Ugh. Add/Remove programs it is then.

And that was my 10 minutes with Brain Editor Professional Demo.

I typed in "graphics"in protean an dit didn't even turn blue.

I suspect you hadn't taken the 20 seconds it takes to set things up.

There is only one IDE I can think of that doesn't auto-capitalize and that is Context.

Since you are talking about IDE's - what yourl you reccommend for Blitz3D, without the .NET stuff installed?

I mean, I'm not talking about fancy looking gui with average functionality. What I'm looking for are things like AutoIntend, Highlight corresponding Endif/Wend/Until etc. of constructs, goto function that is named as the selected text, jump back, multiple synched windows of one source, autorem blocks and more.

Thats enough Brain editing for anyone!