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• hgy29 Maintainer

  July 2018

  What’s wrong with Gideros Studio I wonder, it has syntax coloring, completion proposal, and outline. I wonder what VS brings

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• oleg Member

  July 2018 edited July 2018

  he's just used to VS
  

  my games:
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=razorback456
  мій блог по гідерос https://simartinfo.blogspot.com
  Слава Україні!
  

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• keszegh Member

  July 2018

  and what about zerobrane studio (as always) as an alternative, although i've not used vs so i cannot compare.

  Longtitle Productions, creator of
  Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  July 2018

  Gideros Studio is way better than it used to be. To me there is no advantage to using VS over GS. I think Zerobrane has a debugger, but I've not used it.

  Coder, video game industry veteran (since the '80s, ❤'s assembler), arrested - never convicted hacker (in the '90s), dad of five, he/him (if that even matters!).
  https://deluxepixel.com

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• antix Member

  July 2018

  I prefer Zerobranes Outline pane, it contains only functions. It also has nicer editing features. Gideros Studio has totally improved recently though

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• talis Guru

  July 2018

  I and my elder brother played her games. Especially Deathmask was our favorite. I was usually beating my brother in game and he was beating me in real life:D
  Great programmer, I am so much happy to see those old but ageless games come to life with Gideros.
  I hope she will be kind to share some part of her experience with us also through here or from her blog.
  We need the real Guru's, experiences in our life, those things can never ever be learned easily alone.
  For that we also owe you so much @SinisterSoft .

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  July 2018

  @talis Really nice comments, it's great knowing that people appreciate your work, I've sent Patricia a message on Facebook with a link to your post.

  Coder, video game industry veteran (since the '80s, ❤'s assembler), arrested - never convicted hacker (in the '90s), dad of five, he/him (if that even matters!).
  https://deluxepixel.com

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• LuckyRedFish Member

  July 2018

  Thank you for your kind words guys, there are little bits of my history on my site mostly about the early days though however i make many references to how it was back then in my blog, and i am sure that will continue.
  
  As for what does visual studio bring that zerobrane does not its been awhile since i used zerobrane.
  
  But on Visual studio you can :-
  
  Drag out to another monitor.
  Have more than one copy of the same file open.
  Have bookmarks.
  Select, cut, copy and paste columns (huge plus).
  Record and playback key macros.
  
  VS is fast and feels smooth and you can change the theme to dark which is easier on the eyes!
  
  For me it's the only way to edit code.
  
  
  

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• oleg Member

  July 2018

  
  "Have more than one copy of the same file open.
  Have bookmarks."
  
  ++

  my games:
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=razorback456
  мій блог по гідерос https://simartinfo.blogspot.com
  Слава Україні!
  

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  July 2018

  Bookmarks appear to work...
  
  Click the stars, a blue triangle will appear, you can click the other stars to go up/down them and clear them all.
  
  Dark themes work too - they are easy on the eyes.
  
  What would be handy:
  Key macros (rec & playback).
  Multiple scroll positions within the same file (so you can see the top and bottom of a file at the same time) - this is better than opening the same file twice.
  A full debugger (not that I'd use it as I never make mistakes! )
  
  Here is a screenshot on how bookmarks work.
  
  

  

  

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  Coder, video game industry veteran (since the '80s, ❤'s assembler), arrested - never convicted hacker (in the '90s), dad of five, he/him (if that even matters!).
  https://deluxepixel.com

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• oleg Member

  July 2018

  SinisterSoft said:

  Bookmarks appear to work...
  
  

  if there was still a list of bookmarks, and the ability to give them names
  
  
  

  

  

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  my games:
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=razorback456
  мій блог по гідерос https://simartinfo.blogspot.com
  Слава Україні!
  

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• antix Member

  July 2018

  The real downside to VS is that it is so HUGEEEEEE.

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• keszegh Member

  July 2018

  welcome @LuckyRedFish.
  
  zerobrane does have multiple cursors:
  https://studio.zerobrane.com/features
  
  i think the only thing zerobrane misses from your list is macros.

  Longtitle Productions, creator of
  Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game

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• totebo Member

  July 2018 edited July 2018

  I've tried Zerobrane, but didn't feel it was much different from Gideros IDE. I would like proper OOP auto completion. So if I have an instance of class Test, if I type "test." a list of self variables are listed, and typing "test:" would list the functions. Is that too much to ask?! Probably, but I thought I'd mention it.

  My Gideros games: www.totebo.com

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  July 2018

  Yes, seems difficult to achieve that for lua, since lua is loosely typed

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  July 2018

  I really like the new version of the official editor with the panel for functions, etc - it would be handy though if there was a switch to just show functions - or maybe colour the text differently so it's easier to spot functions from variables.

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  Coder, video game industry veteran (since the '80s, ❤'s assembler), arrested - never convicted hacker (in the '90s), dad of five, he/him (if that even matters!).
  https://deluxepixel.com

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• antix Member

  July 2018

  I agree with you @SinisterSoft because I only use the outline pane in ZBS for a glorified bookmarks list

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