Looking for suggestions in editing FPro files

[Boaz Bezborodko]

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> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 12:27:53 -0400
> From: Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com>
> Subject: Re: Looking for suggestions in editing FPro files
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
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> When asked his whereabouts on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 11:22:39AM -0400,
> Boaz Bezborodko took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
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>> > While I don't mind working in the regular screen most of the time, I was 
>> > wondering if anyone has an alternate way of editing FPro programs that 
>> > allows you to see a lot more lines at a time without having to 
>> > constantly print out a hardcopy or an unformatted ASCII version in a 
>> > text editor?
>>     
>
> How much would you pay for a cross-platform GUI editor that had labels in
> the first cells, If/Then tags in the second cells, and the third cells were
> editable conditional and action lines.  Think of a mini-Excel type program,
> but as an editor for fP code.
>
> I know I can do this, because I did something -very- similar for a Call of
> Duty 4/5 weapons editor, and people loved it.
>
> But it'd have to be worth it to me to actually rip it apart and make it
> into an fP editor.
>
> There would be no syntax checking, I can say that up front...but then there
> isn't in a text editor either.  Giving the fP help is probably not going to
> happen at least in a first version (if at all), but again, neither does a
> text editor have that.
>
> Essentially, I am pretty darned I can make this program go as high as your
> screen heignt.  Depending on the font size used, you might get
> significantly more processing in-view while editing.
>
> mark->
> -- Audio panton, cogito singularis,

Not enough to justify your writing the program just for me.  I normally 
don't do a lot of programming, but the last few months have been a bit 
different as we started to do a lot of new business that requires new 
programs and modifications.

But I can see spending something like $100 or $200 for something that 
makes the programming easier.  If it could color code variables, 
highlight key commands or selected strings like Notepad++ can do then 
that can be even better.

(Notepad++ has the ability to use plugins, but I that is way past my 
programming knowledge.)

Boaz