ability to (un)fold procedures and function

[Dieter @ DWorks]

like the subject says: the ability to (un)fold procedure and function. this would be very handy if you're code becomes long. then you can fold the functions/procedures you're not working on and have a better overview of the program

[Jonathan Pickup]

yes, this would be neat. But if you put all your functions at the top, don?t you still get an overview of the main body at the bottom...

[ccroft]

With scripts of 400 lines and up, and a bunch of procedures and functions, it would be a great help to be able to minimize some blocks of code to see the procedures you're working on in closer proximity to their calling procedures. This would be especially helpful when things aren't behaving as intended. Which for me is a lot of the time.

While we're at wishing for vScript improvements...I wish CASE supported strings, and variables for the branches.

Charles

[Jonathan Pickup]

yes, i see. some people have 1000 lines+

[Dieter @ DWorks]

yes, this would be neat. But if you put all your functions at the top, don?t you still get an overview of the main body at the bottom...

yes, but there are procedures in procedures that are in procedures and so on.

Oh, and that of case with strings would be very welcome too

[wezelboy]

Some dev tools have a multi-paned editor to solve this problem.

If you are going to the trouble of writing massive scripts like that, you might want to consider a 3rd party editor for your scripting.

-P

[Dieter @ DWorks]

wezelboy, do you know one that is free???

[wezelboy]

All the free editors I know of are for Mac. Macs have the benefit of having a large body of free old school UNIX apps available, like Xemacs (or vi if you prefer).

I personally try to use code libraries as much as I can and bring them into my scripts with the {$INCLUDE} compiler directive. I keep the code libraries open in a seperate textedit (yes, I am too lazy to install Xemacs) window so I can make quick edits to them if I need to.

-P

Oh... and while we are on the subject of vScript improvements... I wish we could chuck the pascal out the window in favor of perl.

And I want a pony.

Edited July 3, 2007 by wezelboy