Subj : Re: bcc 5.02 command line v. ide
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Sebastian Ledesma
Date : Fri Dec 03 2004 11:51 am

David:

I have Open Watcom 1.2, and four weeks ago I upgraded to Open Watcom 1.3.
The IDE is no such thing. It's basically a project manager, when you double
click to edit a file it will open a separate application
(I'm not sure if it can be configured to select  the editor). In any case
you have to press ALT+TAB several times to go from
'editing' to 'compiling' and viceversa. I didnt trid the debugger. I used a
lot to make some specific 32 bit DOS applications.
When I finished my work I switched back to BC :-).
So, that's my opinion, the IDE it's not a real INTEGRATED Developement
Enviroment. But the code Works, and the extenders
are great. Perhaps the best solution it's to integrate the
compiler/libraries in another Addon like Tools55 :-) (Watcom Addon for
BC5.x! :-) ) or wait until release 1.x becomes a real IDE.

Saludos
Sebastian



"David Morris"
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el mensaje news:41b010c0@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> "
> >
> Co-incidentally I had a look at (some screen shots) of RHIDE yesterday.
As a
> DOS application it looked great.  I would have loved it back in 1994.
Today,
> I really want a Windows IDE, that has a an editor that is fast and compact
with
> lots of different languages supported.   The Editor I want is close to
Crimson
> (http://www.crimsoneditor.com/).  But the IDE has not been invented yet.
PSPad
> (http://www.pspad.com/index_en.html )comes close - but  I think that the
SYN
> component just isn't as good as Crimson, and it doesn't give me the same
> confidence.
>
> I liked the Watcom compiler because it is well supported by well known
(and
> presumably) good DMPI extenders.   Also, has anyone done any benchmarking
> between DJGPP and Watcom?  Historically the Watcom compiler was known to
> generate fast code.
>
> I could see a day when the same code base produces Borland 16bit DOS (and
that
> won't change),32 DOS bit Watcom?, and 32 bit Win with Visual C.
>
> There is an amazing number of good and even good free compilers out there.
>
> regards DM
>

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