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News: 2004/02/28: Put User-Libs to the Compiler-Features (not complete yet - will be online soon). As usual - the sense behind it is, that you do not have to care about too big blown main-exes. Libs and Commands that are not used get sorted out by the Precompiler and only the Libs and Commands that are really used are compiled and only needed files find their way (will be copied by the Precompiler) into the project-folder. 2004/02/13: Have added several new features meanwhile - but had no time to document them yet - so maybe - if nothing comes between - I will do that next Sunday. This was just a little info to let you know I am still at it :-) But a TerrainEditor (some first pictures if you are interested are here) and my unique Animation-System are keeping me busy these days. 2004/01/30: Automatic Creditslist-Generation added to PreCompiler. New Program added into bin-Folder: GetBlitzEditorFile.exe Finds the open BlitzEditor-Window writes its Titlename into a file and the PreCompiler picks the Filename from there. This will be replaced as soon as Rob Hutchinson adds EnumerateWindows to his Blitzsys-Library. Have been in EMail-Contact - he may add it sooner or later - if he gets time to do so. A problem we all have. Documentation for included Functions and its conversions into BlitzStyle is nearly finished. I found out, that, if there are not many tasks running, then the Click on the RunFile-Button in the Editor causes that the PreCompiler produces an Error-Message. That is because the Original Compiler has started in the Background and tries to compile the File that was just opened by the PreCompiler. Have not found out yet how to stop that. So the safe way is still to start the PreCompiler from the Taskbar via MouseClick (same action but at another place - although not as elegant). 2004/01/28: Split the Library of Rob Hutchinson (His website: Tarropithium Software not available anymore). Read everything about that great Library and DLL there. Examples en masse and lot of useful Functions. You must download his Freeware-DLL and Include-File for BlitzBasic from his Website if you want to use the Functions he wrote and provided. Its his brainwork and in my view only fair to have the original before using any Function in 'Split-mode'. You should, in case you use one of the Functions put his name into the Credits of every Program you write and where these Functions are used in. One of the new advantages is, that you do not have to overload your Program with 1000s of Constants and more than 50 Functions if you, lets say, only need the File-Requestor. 2004/01/25: After Downloading the Halo - Editor I was quite surprised about one Feature it had. I have thought about something like that in the past, but didn't follow that path and forgot about it. I am talking about that feature with the Functions, each in a File in Folders that put them together as groups. Unfortunately Halo didn't realize that he wasted a great idea. Because he makes nothing else than include all Functions. Even if you only need 10 or 20 of them his Editor includes all 2500 Functions you may have collected and find useful in every Program. This cannot be it - so the Precompiler was developed to include only the Functions, which are actually used by the Program that's edited. Writing that little Tool I found some useful additions that could make in certain projects our programming life easier. So here it is: The BlitzEditorProject. |
