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Alincon
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Find Command
« Thread started on: Dec 18th, 2014, 01:43am » |
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First I think LBB is a wonderful tool for Lib Bas users.
But I would find it more useful if the LBB IDE was more like the LB IDE.
I can understand why some LBB users do most of their coding in LB
for example: the find/replace tools lack a 'backward' capability
it is not possible to highlight something and search on that, without having to type it in, and risking typing errors.
LBB does not use 'CTL G' to search again
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Richard Russell
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Re: Find Command
« Reply #1 on: Dec 18th, 2014, 08:58am » |
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on Dec 18th, 2014, 01:43am, Alincon wrote:| But I would find it more useful if the LBB IDE was more like the LB IDE. |
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One of the main reasons why the LBB IDE isn't as comprehensive as it might be is that I recommend the use of 'LB Workshop' as the front-end for LBB. Since LBW is so good, and since it integrates so well with LBB (and because it's free!) there would be little point in me trying to copy its features.
Having said that I am always open to suggestions for improvements to the LBB IDE.
Quote:| the find/replace tools lack a 'backward' capability |
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Personally I never use that facility, at least in part because most of the text editors and code editors I use don't provide it. For example neither Notepad nor Wordpad support 'find backwards', and nor do the BBC BASIC and LB Workshop editors.
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That is something I will attempt to fix in a future release.
Edit: I have now added this feature to my work-in-progress version. You can have a copy on an 'at your own risk' basis if you like (send me a PM if so).
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For what I think is a good reason: Ctrl+G is very non-standard! In virtually every Windows editor I know of, the keyboard shortcut for 'Find again' is F3, and so it is in LBB. One of the objectives of LBB is to be more 'conventional' than LB!
Richard.
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Re: Find Command
« Reply #2 on: Dec 18th, 2014, 12:43pm » |
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RE: find backwards
I happen to use "Find prevoius" hotkey pretty often
It's Shift-F3 in Context, Notepad++ (general programmer's editors), Toad (SQL IDE).
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Richard Russell
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Re: Find Command
« Reply #3 on: Dec 18th, 2014, 5:07pm » |
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on Dec 18th, 2014, 12:43pm, tsh73 wrote:| I happen to use "Find prevoius" hotkey pretty often. |
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OK, 'the customer is always right'! I have now added the find up/down feature and find previous command in my work-in-progress version. 
I have one question for tsh73 though - do you actually use LBB yourself? 
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Re: Find Command
« Reply #4 on: Dec 19th, 2014, 05:32am » |
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>> I have one question for tsh73 though - do you actually use LBB yourself?
LOL
I usually write just for fun or single-use (throwaway) programs, and for that JB is often enough.
After reading your message I realise that I probably should use LBB a lot more.
Yesterday I put together some text tool (
Clipboard - > textbox - > (processing) - > textbox -> Clipboard,
things I often need, like
123
334
555
=> '123','334','555'
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Now I just compiled it with LBB.
So I got no-hassle EXE, and got rid of Ctrl Z textbox bug.
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