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Invisible wrote:
> If you're
> trying to invoke a method of the current class, no matter what you do it
> won't populate the list.
I dunno. Just tried it, and "this." brought up the list of methods.
> "please use the currently selected alternative to complete what I'm
> typing",
Tab. Just like every other auto-complete system in existence.
> (And then there's the fact that every IDE I've seen refuses to let you
> indent your code correctly... but that's nothing to do with
> auto-complete as such.)
Edit->Advanced->Reformat entire document
Dude, maybe rather than bitching that IDEs suck, you should give it a rest
until you've tried one written this millenium.
>> 4) The red underlining of compiler errors as you're typing (in MS C# IDE)
>
> That's useful IF IT WORKS CORRECTLY, which it doesn't always do IME.
>
>> 5) Auto compile/link/run with one keypress
>
> I usually leave a CLI window open. To compile, just press the up arrow
> and enter. But sure, I'm certainly not *against* such a feature! ;-)
You know, that works pretty poorly if you have anything other than code
involved. If you're doing a video game and you need to import the audio,
graphics, models, and animations, once command line is unlikely to do it.
OK, so you have your development environment, non-integrated. So? What's
your point?
>> 6) "Template" projects for a Windows app
>
> What does that do?
Try it! Or at least google it. :-)
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scott wrote:
> button1.Click += new System.EventHandler(MyMethod);
Actually, button1.Click += MyMethod;
works too, because one of the compiler passes sees this and fixes it for you.
> Well there's a "Form designer" file that holds any GUI elements you add,
It also sets up all the other stuff you need in a real commercial project,
like initializing the version number, adding a copyright to the executable's
properties box, etc.
A lot of what it does assumes you're writing a real program that more than
one person might some day use.
>> Again, shouldn't an empty class be trivial to write in the first place?
>
> Sure, but it's something so common to do that even saving 30 seconds is
> a benefit, especially if you want it in a new file, and that file to be
> saved, added to the current project and opened in the IDE.
Plus, it initializes it with a bunch of namespaces you're likely to need in
that kind of class.
> 8) Right click and "Go to definition" on a method. And of course the
> View -> Navigate Back button afterwards :-)
Control minus gets you back, also, if you want the keyboard shortcut.
You can also find all references to that method or class or variable
(excluding references to other variables with the same name).
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Invisible wrote:
> Is there some way to quickly find all the stubs you haven't filled out
> yet? (Other than just running the program and hoping it throws an
> exception so you can see the stack trace.)
Of course. Search for NotYetImplemented.
(I'm kind of surprised there's no comment reading
// TODO: Implement this
to make it show up in your to-do list.)
> OK, fair enough. I don't know about C#, but an empty class file in Java
> is 2 lines.
It is in C# too, as long as you don't want to import any namespaces or have
a constructor or anything.
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Invisible wrote:
> In Haskell, I can fire up Glade, paint my UI, save it, and then write
> maybe 6 lines of code in Haskell, hit compile, and I've got a GUI
> application.
Same in C#. Actually, you don't have to write any code at all. The
boilerplate is created for you. What do you think Glade is doing, if not
generating boilerplate.
When you want to (for example) code a Windows service, or a plug-in for a
web browser, or a custom type for a SQL server, you're going to have more
boilerplate to hook those two together.
A sufficiently advanced language can turn any "boilerplate" into "library
code", but that's generally done by having the compiler running library code
at compile time. Hence, LISP macros, FORTH dictionaries, etc. An IDE does
that for languages where the syntax doesn't include running arbitrary code
at compile time.
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Darren New wrote:
> That said, you're aware that Java sucks in this regard, right? :-)
...there's a regard in which Java does *not* suck?
(Actually, yeah, there is: The idea. It was a good idea. Unfortunately
they did it wrong...)
>> Oh, and do NOT try to delete or rename classes. VS apparently doesn't
>> like this at all.
>
> You have to do it right.
Right. Well let's not like anybody shows us how to use VS or anything.
They just acted like it was "obvious" or something.
>> And trying to figure out where VS stores them is nontrivial,
>
> Does "nontrivial" mean "I had
> to actually go take a look or read some documentation"?
If you're doing this stuff yourself by hand, you have a folder full of
*.java files. When you compile them, it creates *.class files. Oh, and
you have to have subfolders to patch the package structure, but that's
about it.
Create a VS project and you've got source files, project metadata,
several different compiled versions of the stuff, resource files,
packaged-up deployment files, JavaDoc files... It's not like you need to
be Leroy Gibbs to figure it out, but it's certainly not trivial.
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Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> In Haskell, I can fire up Glade, paint my UI, save it, and then write
>> maybe 6 lines of code in Haskell, hit compile, and I've got a GUI
>> application.
>
> Same in C#. Actually, you don't have to write any code at all. The
> boilerplate is created for you. What do you think Glade is doing, if not
> generating boilerplate.
Actually it saves the GUI description as an XML file, which your program
then loads and parses at runtime.
> When you want to (for example) code a Windows service, or a plug-in for
> a web browser, or a custom type for a SQL server, you're going to have
> more boilerplate to hook those two together.
Now, see, to me these kinds of tasks all belong to the set of things
which are "impossible" in the first place, so I guess I don't tend to
think about it. You can't write web browser plugins unless you're a C
programmer, unfortunately.
> A sufficiently advanced language can turn any "boilerplate" into
> "library code", but that's generally done by having the compiler running
> library code at compile time. Hence, LISP macros, FORTH dictionaries,
> etc. An IDE does that for languages where the syntax doesn't include
> running arbitrary code at compile time.
Heh, maybe.
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>> "please use the currently selected alternative to complete what I'm
>> typing",
>
> Tab. Just like every other auto-complete system in existence.
Hmm, I never thought of that. (This is before I encountered Unix.)
>> (And then there's the fact that every IDE I've seen refuses to let you
>> indent your code correctly... but that's nothing to do with
>> auto-complete as such.)
>
> Edit->Advanced->Reformat entire document
Wouldn't that just apply the incorrect formatting to the whole document?
> Dude, maybe rather than bitching that IDEs suck, you should give it a
> rest until you've tried one written this millenium.
I didn't say IDEs suck, I said autocomplete sucks. ;-) Or at least, the
two implementations of it I tried sucked...
>>> 5) Auto compile/link/run with one keypress
>>
>> I usually leave a CLI window open. To compile, just press the up arrow
>> and enter. But sure, I'm certainly not *against* such a feature! ;-)
>
> You know, that works pretty poorly if you have anything other than code
> involved. If you're doing a video game and you need to import the audio,
> graphics, models, and animations, once command line is unlikely to do it.
...which is why people write batch files. ;-)
> OK, so you have your development environment, non-integrated. So? What's
> your point?
No "point" as such, I'm just trying to get a handle on what the
perceived advantages of IDEs are, since it's apparently not possible to
live without one.
>>> 6) "Template" projects for a Windows app
>>
>> What does that do?
>
> Try it! Or at least google it. :-)
A human being is far more likely to give a useful overview. (Let's face
it, if I try it, I'll just spend an hour not being able to figure out
what it's supposed to be for.)
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Right. Well let's not like anybody shows us how to use VS or anything.
> They just acted like it was "obvious" or something.
Well, by "doign it right", it means anwering the right answer on the menu
that pops up, that says "Hey, you renamed a class, do you want me to rename
the references?" Or "You renamed a file, do you want me to rename the class?"
> If you're doing this stuff yourself by hand, you have a folder full of
> *.java files. When you compile them, it creates *.class files. Oh, and
> you have to have subfolders to patch the package structure, but that's
> about it.
Yep. Now go add some native code, the icon that Windows should use for the
application, the icon it should use for documents, the files that translate
your UI into other languages, the prerequisites that have to be installed
(like other JAR files or the JVM runtime of the right version), the sample
data, the documentation, and the installer.
> Create a VS project and you've got source files, project metadata,
> several different compiled versions of the stuff, resource files,
> packaged-up deployment files, JavaDoc files... It's not like you need to
> be Leroy Gibbs to figure it out, but it's certainly not trivial.
It's trivial to figure out where the compiler-generated files are. They're
in the subdirectory obj if they're intermediate object files, or bin if
they're executable binary files to be distributed. Since the idea of "obj"
vs "bin" has been around since roughly 1970, those terms shouldn't be a
suprise to any programmer.
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Actually it saves the GUI description as an XML file, which your program
> then loads and parses at runtime.
Yes. As does Visual Studio. And what do you think the boilerplate does there
beside "load and parse at runtime" that XML? :-)
> Now, see, to me these kinds of tasks all belong to the set of things
> which are "impossible" in the first place, so I guess I don't tend to
> think about it. You can't write web browser plugins unless you're a C
> programmer, unfortunately.
Of course you can.
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Edit->Advanced->Reformat entire document
> Wouldn't that just apply the incorrect formatting to the whole document?
It applies the formatting rules you asked it to apply. If you tell it to use
the "wrong" formatting rules, you'll get consistent but "wrongly" formatted
code. Which would be "the" incorrect formatting?
>> You know, that works pretty poorly if you have anything other than
>> code involved. If you're doing a video game and you need to import the
>> audio, graphics, models, and animations, once command line is unlikely
>> to do it.
>
> ...which is why people write batch files. ;-)
So you're going to maintain a batch file that first compiles the code needed
to parse the video game animations, then the code that writes them out, then
runs the animations through that, then put them in the right place?
Why in the world would you do that when it has already been written for you?
And again, yes, people write batch files because they're unfamiliar with
IDEs. You realize that's not a *good* thing, right?
> No "point" as such, I'm just trying to get a handle on what the
> perceived advantages of IDEs are, since it's apparently not possible to
> live without one.
It is if you're doing something small enough. But then, you can live without
batch files too if you never type the same command more than twice.
The advantages of an IDE over a DE is that it's integrated.
>>>> 6) "Template" projects for a Windows app
>>>
>>> What does that do?
>>
>> Try it! Or at least google it. :-)
>
> A human being is far more likely to give a useful overview.
You know what a template is in documents, right? Corporate report template?
Vacation time reporting template? Request for purchase of networking
equipment template?
Same thing, for code.
I want to write a game. I want to write a windows service. I want to write a
new type for a SQL database engine. I want to build a web application.
> I'll just spend an hour not being able to figure out what it's supposed
to be for.
That's because you never practice the skill, so you never improve at it.
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