#region directive

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Apr 2 2007, 9:57 am
Could we have 2 more preproccessor directives call regions like in C#?
#region extras
+/- symbol to shorten code
#endregion

Apr 2 2007, 10:03 am
Mind giving perhaps a brief explanation of what this does? Having a personal hate set aside for C#, thus never wanting to learn it, I have no clue what this does, and you weren't exactly way too descriptive.
Apr 2 2007, 10:04 am
In response to Audeuro
It gives a +/- symbol that you can click to hide long parts of code.
Apr 2 2007, 10:17 am
Code folding is a compiler feature, not a language feature.
Apr 2 2007, 10:31 am
In response to Xx Dark Wizard xX
If you want a way of having expandable code for readability, why not just use the object tree?
Apr 2 2007, 3:42 pm
In response to Jtgibson
Jtgibson wrote:
Code folding is a compiler feature, not a language feature.

More correctly, it's an editor feature, not a compiler or a language feature. =)

It would be nice to have code folding, but it's definitely not in the top 10 most wanted features. And I wouldn't do it with silly preprocessor blocks, I'd just make it use levels of indentation.
Apr 3 2007, 4:24 am
In response to Crispy
Actually, my DM IDE has code folding already. =D
Apr 3 2007, 4:28 am
In response to PirateHead
PirateHead wrote:
Actually, my DM IDE has code folding already. =D
The linux one?
Apr 3 2007, 6:13 am
In response to PirateHead
Yep, mine too. It was actually pretty easy to do. Mine uses the #region method and has an option to make it based on tabs. Just need to remember to make the IDE remove the #region and #endregion stuff before it compiles using dm.exe.
Apr 3 2007, 12:46 pm
In response to Crispy
Crispy wrote:
Jtgibson wrote:
Code folding is a compiler feature, not a language feature.

More correctly, it's an editor feature, not a compiler or a language feature. =)

Yeah, you're right. But I was thinking "IDE" in my head and I tend to refer to Dream Maker as the "compiler". So I was right too, and no one can say otherwise! ;-)
Apr 7 2007, 2:05 pm
In response to Crispy
Crispy wrote:
Jtgibson wrote:
Code folding is a compiler feature, not a language feature.

More correctly, it's an editor feature, not a compiler or a language feature. =)

It would be nice to have code folding, but it's definitely not in the top 10 most wanted features. And I wouldn't do it with silly preprocessor blocks, I'd just make it use levels of indentation.

No, lets make the parenthesis (oh god I have no idea how to spell that) highlighting first!
Apr 7 2007, 5:45 pm
In response to Shlaklava
That isn't important either IMO >_> ...oh, and OFD has posted that AHK script to do with it, also.
Apr 13 2007, 10:49 am
Collapsible code is certainly nice. Especially when you have mind numbingly long switch() statements. I could think of a number of places my Evaluate library could use it.

I'd probably have my IDE use // or /// in stead of # to make it compatable with the compiler.
Apr 13 2007, 12:06 pm
In response to Yota
So... this is requested just because some people are too lazy to scroll down some relatively big block o' code or press PAGE_DOWN twice, or something? Man, I thought I was very lazy...
Also, personally I think you're better off having your code visible at all times. In addition, it may not happen, but I wouldn't like another subject to have help spam topics on: code randomly not working properly [because some related broken code is hidden and the topic poster is too noob-].
Apr 13 2007, 3:35 pm
In response to Kaioken
Kaioken wrote:
So... this is requested just because some people are too lazy to scroll down some relatively big block o' code or press PAGE_DOWN twice, or something?

Laziness is a virtue when programming. ;-)

Collapsible code makes things easier to read since it makes it more likely that you can have two related pieces of code on one screen at once.


I wouldn't like another subject to have help spam topics on: code randomly not working properly [because some related broken code is hidden and the topic poster is too noob-].

So just make it automatically expand all code whenever you start Dream Maker (so restarting DM fixes the "problem"). And maybe have the feature off by default so people can't click it accidentally and think they've deleted stuff.
Jul 8 2007, 7:06 pm
I was going to make a post to request this in features, but since I searched the forums I decided I'll just bump the notion that #regions would be really nice.
Jul 8 2007, 8:30 pm
In response to Rockinawsome
Rockinawsome wrote:
I was going to make a post to request this in features, but since I searched the forums I decided I'll just bump the notion that #regions would be really nice.

Agreed again.