TechMuc, if I haven't congratulated you already, then congrats for the amount of work you've put into this. I know from experience that sometimes parser writing isn't always the most easy or enjoyable work, but it's great to see how much effort you've put into this.

I haven't had a proper play with it yet, but I will

As for the intelli-scoping, you shouldn't add any items that are not in the current scope to the member list. The object doesn't exist there, so anything the user does is an error. Why help them with their error?

The only thing I haven't seen documented is if it supports error handling, whether it be real-time (impressive) or on compile (great). I feel that would make this much more complete.

Hey,

Okay the help-feature is making progress..Help for Lite-C is almost implemented (needs some minor speed improvements). The Great difference to the SED help is that the led help 1) is area-aware (e.g. if you click on "flags" in a PANEL definition, the flags help of PANEL is displayed, not of any other structure), 2) is extensible.



What do you need? I do not quite get this You mean a more comprehensive display of compiler errors (which is planned), or a realtime catching of engine errors (which would generally be possible, but is difficult)?

Well, we all know that the Lite-C compiler generates quite vague error messages so better compiler messages would be great. It should state exactly why the piece of code has failed, rather than 'Inavlid operation'

Real-time showing of errors, with red squiggles under the offending code is the goal of any IDE I would say.

Good error reporting is hard due the parser having to return to state where it can recognize rules again, in which it can skip code, etc.

I don't know what parser you are using, but I assume you have an AST? So you can at least do real-time semantic errors, like using % on floats, etc.

Already implemented. Though far away from beeing perfect

I'm using m own parser

Ok cool, I don't think it's in the uploaded version though is it?

Settings --> Languages --> LiteC --> Font And colors --> Error (Change color to red or sth. like that).

Though as already said, it wont work perfectly.

As an alternative or addition to the automatic watch updating we were talking about yesterday, how about having an option to automatically pause execution when a watch changes?

Automatically pause is currently not supported but will be implemented.
At the moment i'm heavily working on the performance of watches as they update too slow now. I wont make any promises, but maybe it will be possible to update every frame (I mean actually it is just a simple read out of a memory area..)

Scope intelligence is implemented. LED gained again a lot more stability, though has two unknown crashs left (when working with too many functions ).

Worked hard on the speed of the debugging methods. "Real Time Watches" are possible now (auto-update watches, also for complex variables, see following screenshot).

Screenshot 1: Live-Debugging (here of camera view)
http://www.dev-software.com/live_debug.jpg

Screenshot 2: Can anyone claim to get a such deep view into ANY structure in another 3DGS editor? Just a small test, if the debugging is working as expected..and it does (see material, and c_link tab)
http://www.dev-software.com/debug_deep.jpg

could the flags be resolved? this would be awesome.