OS: Windows98se, very plain setup without additional gadgets and fancy crap.
Compared to the last release, I cannot see any difference in the following points:
1.Colors incorrect
I open an existing project stored on the network through "recent projects"..
Desktop Theme Whidbey doesn't show any text of color black, but all green
text is visible.
I have to switch to a different theme and back to see all code.
2. Missing code though it is shown
My code is now shown, also the project settings are correct, If I do now
nothing except pressing Ctrl-F9, what happens varies randomly. Sometimes
I get the compiler line shown and then it stucks, sometimes I get the message
"main function is not defined".
In the second case I have luck, I only have to add the already shown
file again to the project, then it usually compiles. In the first case I can
abort the whole IDE and start from beginning.
3. Alzheimer effect
I have the project open, compiled successfully the project, and exit now
the IDE. I would expect that the IDE remembers the last settings and saves
them non-volatile, as I checked the related editor options in the IDE.
No, I get an empty editor window with gray background (Theme=Whidbey
so it should be anything but gray).
This changes when I select the project from "recent projects" to missing
black as described in 1.
4. I stopped here before testing if syntax errors still cause a quiet dying if the IDE.
I had this phenomenon in the release version. Instead of getting the error
displayed, I got nothing else then the line of how the compiler is called.
I really wonder how this strange behavior can happen at all. The program reads the project file and should find there all settings and so on, so how can it forget which files are in the project, which project was open, which colors Whidbey uses, etc...
For the moment being I am actually afraid to use the PRO version for projects with multiple files. Will I have then to add all used files one by one every time I start the IDE or project?
As I notified zristic about this problem, I expected to see that solved, too. Hope this will be the case when 1.5 is released, because this is really nasty.
Meanwhile I edit files outside the IDE as this works more reliable (the IDE sometimes froze in the release), and I only use the IDE to open the project and invoke the compiler. Why? It is not really funny to type in the whole command line every time in a DOS box.
It would be great if the compiler options could be entered as defines directly into the head of the main program, so all I have to do if typing the compiler name + name of the main file, as all the rest can be defined then there. -- This also will be very helpful when the commandline compiler is ported to Linux.
rainer
