Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
BlitzMax Forums/BlitzMax Programming/Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
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| I was wondering if I am able to include .bmx files into a solution file and have syntax highlighting & intellisense for them. I searched the forum and almost found what I needed, but the link is 2 years old & broken. |
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| try the blide IDE if you want similar functions to VS Cheers Charlie |
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| Blide IDE? Is that developed by blitz? |
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| No it's a third party product. http://blide.org/ |
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| No, but it's by far the best BlitzMax IDE out there: www.blide.org. |
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| But, back to my question there is no plug-in currently out there to import into MSVS? |
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| As far as I know no. |
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| Do I have to buy Blide? What if my game is going to be making money? |
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| no, there's a free version. Cheers Charlie |
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| What if my game is going to be making money? Then you'll have to buy a license. they're very very cheap. |
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| urg, nevermind then. Ill just deal with the Blitz IDE or ill make my own MSVS plug-in |
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| The time you have to invest to get module support etc all working is two magnitudes larger than the small fee for blide, really. you aren't going to help your productivity in any way with that, especially not if you use the least productive IDE on windows, the official one. Even Project Studio IDE is better but easily killed by Blide |
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| least productive? I'm practically in love. |
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| Agree on that. But fullscale autocompletition including autocompletition for own sources and autocompletition for all modules makes it worlds more productive unless you know all modules inside out with all function memorized Thats what I mean as less productive. Wasting time on the docs that would be self explaining with the superb autocomplete is a whole different world productivity and dev time wise |
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| Well my nice little intelligence tells me everything I can use! |
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| Don't give up on IDE's man. Try Protean, I forgot the url. It's cheap, and there are no royalties. Is that the reason you want to use MSVC. |
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| MSVC is a damn site more expensive than BLIde. ;) If you're referring to using a plugin with the free express versions then I'm afraid you're out of luck. The express versions do not support plugins. Brucey started work on a plugin for Eclipse, but that hasn't had any work done on it in a while: http://code.google.com/p/eclipsemax/ |
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| Goober: Nobody says anything different. But even you can't hold 20k functions from the various mods in your head with their full declarations, optional parameters etc. But Blide can and that without any problem and provide them to you through auto completition. I would recommend that you at least try it out before you decide that you don't like it and that you rate your own time at $2 to develop your own fullscale plugin over the course of a week or so instead of paying less than half a day of your time is worth to buy Blide |
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| There are many times I've discovered methods or fields of the original modules which I never knew existed, by looking through the autocomplete list and reading the descriptions! |
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