New Open Turing Editor *Alpha* - Autocompletion, tabs, regex search and more

[mirhagk]

trishume @ Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:46 pm wrote:

Something you could do that would be useful for DWITE and all sorts of things is create a fork of openturing that has no platform dependent code.

All you'd have to do is remove references to functions with the mdio and ed prefixes and then write a command line interface for it.

From that all the platform dependent input, sound and graphics could be implemented in SDL and then with the Qt editor turing would be truly cross-platform.

This would be awesome.

[trishume]

With a cross platform version development would also move faster and turing would work better. When working on Open Turing I spend a remarkable amount of time fighting with Window's terribly designed APIs.

It annoys me how they got their act together and made good .NET apis but their C/C++ APIs are so terrible.

[mirhagk]

[quote="trishume @ Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:29 am"It annoys me how they got their act together and made good .NET apis but their C/C++ APIs are so terrible.[/quote]
That's why they were able to make good .NET library. By dropping support for those things that don't support .NET.

But yes C/C++ should not be windows only, there is no real benefit.

[ProgrammingFun]

I would like to suggest a code minimap for those large coding projects...similar to Sublime Text.

[copthesaint]

ProgrammingFun @ Sat Jan 28, 2012 wrote:

I would like to suggest a code minimap for those large coding projects...similar to Sublime Text.

That would be 95% useless, this is still Turing, which means schools (if the program is made well) will be using the program mostly. and improved mark menu will be all that is needed, if even that is needed.

[trishume]

Ya. I am an avid user of Sublime Text (Even wrote a plugin.) And I agree that a minimap is not a priority for the new editor.

Whenever I am working on Open Turing I try to keep the user base in mind (favourite mantra: "This is not C++, this is not C++")

Some of Turing's design decisions make me shudder (colour numbers) but they usually make it easier for new users. Even though I would prefer full RGB. The RGB module / colour number is a great way to satisfy both types of users.

[Aange10]

This editor is really amazing. Good job, and keep up the work! I do have one request... The Complete Structure function is really amazing, but the hotkey CTRL + Return... I don't even have a return button >..<

Is there anyways you could change it something convenient while coding? Like CTRL + Any_letter. Maybe CTRL + E.

Also, in Eclipse it has a very useful Delete Line command (CTRL + D). That'd be a cool implementation.


Good work

[mirhagk]

Aange10 @ Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:45 pm wrote:

I don't even have a return button

How do you get to a new line then..... You know that return is the enter key right?

[Sur_real]

yeah some keyboards have both return and enter (macs?) but enter works as return in this case

[Aange10]

Quote:

How do you get to a new line then..... You know that return is the enter key right?

Oh o.o

Thanks

[mirhagk]

They keyboards that do are the ones that have enter in the main part, and return in the numpad part. But they are essentially the same thing (a very small amount of programs may detect differences in which enter key was pressed but for the most part they treat it the same)

[crossley7]

I know that when I was writing my Chess game in C++, the SDL library had different codes for the 2 enter/return buttons but I have yet to see a program where the do different things. Closest is that I believe I have had the number pad one not work in some programs.

Not sure about other things if they handle them individually or as the same.

[mirhagk]

Well I know left and right shift alt and control sometimes do different things. The numpad return key is probably not used as a different command just because some keyboards don't have them.

[Srlancelot39]

This is incredible! Good job!

[Aange10]

Also, a suggestion, when I have a window open already, and decide to open another file, it should open a new tab in the existing window. Instead of 2 windows <3