I did squeeze in a few test compiles last night and even after some editing and recompiling everything kept working! Seems like progress. I'll keep working with it and see how it goes. I did notice a few things as I was working.
The filter on the Open Project menu for the .sprj files doesn't work. I see all files no matter if the filter is set or not. I was also seeing some gibberish characters in the drop-down to select the file type. I have noticed as well a propensity for BST to open with some other font. I can select the Parallax font and it will switch to it but sometimes I open it and I'm back to some fixed-width font. I have not really tracked that one just noticed recently though.
Thanks for taking all this time to look at this stuff. I really like your IDE (but I do miss the indentation indicators from PropTool) and I keep going back to it even if I have to work around some issues. Thanks for your work!
I did squeeze in a few test compiles last night and even after some editing and recompiling everything kept working! Seems like progress. I'll keep working with it and see how it goes. I did notice a few things as I was working.
The filter on the Open Project menu for the .sprj files doesn't work. I see all files no matter if the filter is set or not. I was also seeing some gibberish characters in the drop-down to select the file type. I have noticed as well a propensity for BST to open with some other font. I can select the Parallax font and it will switch to it but sometimes I open it and I'm back to some fixed-width font. I have not really tracked that one just noticed recently though.
I've actually never tested the filters on Windows. I wonder if it has a problem with an extension > 3 characters? I'll have a look at it this weekend if I can score some time.
The Font issue happened to me on Vista yesterday too. If you go into the control panel fonts section, do you see the Parallax font installed in there? The Parallax font is a fixed width font but has some odd issues I've worked around in the font renderer. This makes it a bit odd with some normal fonts. While I was testing, I made the mistake of installing the stripped font that we use on OSX & Linux and it looked pretty average on Windows. I can't seem to figure out where the Propeller Tool puts its font in Vista. I need to go back to an XP install and snatch another copy of the font with the bitmaps in it.
Thanks for testing, I appreciate your patience.
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All the file filters work perfectly here. I have a very unpleasant theory though.
Can you test them for me after a clean load of bst and before you edit or compile _anything_? Just fire up bst and have a play around with the directory box and filters and see if they still misbehave. I'm wondering if a bug in the compiler is trampling memory somewhere.
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They still don't function even off of a fresh load. Also I noticed something in the editor. Highlighting and pressing the tab key replaces the highlighted text with a tab vs performing a block indent of the highlighted code. Is that expected?
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They still don't function even off of a fresh load. Also I noticed something in the editor. Highlighting and pressing the tab key replaces the highlighted text with a tab vs performing a block indent of the highlighted code. Is that expected?
Ok that makes me feel better. I'll keep trying to figure out what is going on with the file selectors.
Yes, the tab behaviour is expected. Try Ctrl-Shift-I to block indent and Ctrl-Shift-U to block un-indent.
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I did squeeze in a few test compiles last night and even after some editing and recompiling everything kept working! Seems like progress. I'll keep working with it and see how it goes. I did notice a few things as I was working.
The filter on the Open Project menu for the .sprj files doesn't work. I see all files no matter if the filter is set or not. I was also seeing some gibberish characters in the drop-down to select the file type. I have noticed as well a propensity for BST to open with some other font. I can select the Parallax font and it will switch to it but sometimes I open it and I'm back to some fixed-width font. I have not really tracked that one just noticed recently though.
Thanks for taking all this time to look at this stuff. I really like your IDE (but I do miss the indentation indicators from PropTool) and I keep going back to it even if I have to work around some issues. Thanks for your work!
I've actually never tested the filters on Windows. I wonder if it has a problem with an extension > 3 characters? I'll have a look at it this weekend if I can score some time.
The Font issue happened to me on Vista yesterday too. If you go into the control panel fonts section, do you see the Parallax font installed in there? The Parallax font is a fixed width font but has some odd issues I've worked around in the font renderer. This makes it a bit odd with some normal fonts. While I was testing, I made the mistake of installing the stripped font that we use on OSX & Linux and it looked pretty average on Windows. I can't seem to figure out where the Propeller Tool puts its font in Vista. I need to go back to an XP install and snatch another copy of the font with the bitmaps in it.
Thanks for testing, I appreciate your patience.
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All the file filters work perfectly here. I have a very unpleasant theory though.
Can you test them for me after a clean load of bst and before you edit or compile _anything_? Just fire up bst and have a play around with the directory box and filters and see if they still misbehave. I'm wondering if a bug in the compiler is trampling memory somewhere.
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If you always do what you always did, you always get what you always got.
Post Edited (BradC) : 11/14/2009 3:21:27 AM GMT
Ok that makes me feel better. I'll keep trying to figure out what is going on with the file selectors.
Yes, the tab behaviour is expected. Try Ctrl-Shift-I to block indent and Ctrl-Shift-U to block un-indent.
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If you always do what you always did, you always get what you always got.