Version Save

Cyberience

I use Notepadd++ for Javascript work, and found the auto save versions invaluable, so when I have messed up I can go to my backup folder and go through previous saves to see where I messed up, Version control is better, but needs to update every save.
Can we add the feature for the Manager to save into a folder the previous version, so it would be save such as filename.v001.lua etc.

ar2rsawseen

By Manager do you mean Gideros Studio?

Actually, there is nothing that restricts you not to use Notepad++ or any other IDE (some of them even have Gideros compatibility built in, like ZeroBrane or Lua Glider).

But about Gideros IDE itself, there was a statement somewhere, that it will not be much updated, at least not until getting an additional force to Gideros team (maybe even one specific to supporting Gideros IDE)

OZApps

There is a wonderful utility but only for Macs called "Forever Save" which was the perfect utility for what you want. It works with any and every application. A similar one can be made for Windows too which can monitor a folder and file before it is saved to create a backup.

OZApps

the link to "Forever Save 2" is http://www.tool-forcesw.com/foreversave/ and a review for it at http://reviewme.oz-apps.com/2011/04/ever-required-version-control.html

Cyberience

thanks, I found AutoVer from beanland.net.au/AutoVer a pc free tool, the mac one looks good, need to spend dollars though, in that case, it would be cheaper and ease to write my own cron.

OZApps

AutoVer looks good, never had the need for a PC tool recently, so missed this one. In terms of costs, that is relative as the time one spends on the task vs using that time for something else is very subjective.

Cyberience

Well. just an update to this, I totally fogot about the auto save, and then last night I spent 6 hours writing the next part of my game engine to the point of relative success, and then went to be, forgot to save, and today, all the work gone, I was so upset, anyway, should be able to repeat it in about an hour now, always cleaner the second time through.

seppsepp

I use Atom (done by the GitHub gyus) for pretty much all my work - Ruby, PHP, JS, Lua ... whatever! And it has an autosave plugin - which I don't use because I don't need one but nevertheless :

https://atom.io
https://github.com/atom/autosave

Disciple

Not to sound ironic but I use ctrl+s almost at the end of every line. It's saved me a lot of headaches.

Notepad++ is a great option, as you mentioned.

nextgamevertex

Not to sound ironic but I use ctrl+s almost at the end of every line. It's saved me a lot of headaches.

Notepad++ is a great option, as you mentioned.

Me too, cmd + S every 1 second

Disciple

Me too, cmd + S every 1 second

No better solution

OZApps

What would you do if there was a chunk of code you just deleted and then saved and run the project a couple of times, How would you get to that previous version? Unless you have automatic Check-in happening at every run, I think this is going to be a bit difficult.

That is where you need something a bit more than a simple Save.

Disciple

Sure, you're right, and it has happened as well. Yet it has been only a few times and nothing compared to the times I was relieved to have saved.

Though I don't see how a program that does that same thing would help. Maybe I just don't know well how they work.

seppsepp

I guess you could for Atom write your own plugin (it's just JavaScript / CoffeeScript) and commit changes for example in a Git repository.

At the end of the day: It's a developers business to be _careful_, right .