Right click to get procedures and functions overview

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Ivan
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Right click to get procedures and functions overview

Post by Ivan »

I'm currently reaching 40 procedures and functions eg. 2000 lines.

When I right click in the editor I got all procedures and functions in a listet form as they are in code.

Is it possible to sort names of procedures and functions in the list in alfabetic order?
BBC Model B - 1984-1989. 6502 assembler, Unicomal 1988-1994, Some C and C++, Pascal 1990-1994. Bought a copy of BBC-BASIC 2007, but started to program at a daily basis 2019. C++ in 2021.
RichardRussell

Re: Right click to get procedures and functions overview

Post by RichardRussell »

Ivan wrote: Sat 07 Nov 2020, 13:21 Is it possible to sort names of procedures and functions in the list in alfabetic order?
As you know BB4W is no longer actively being developed so that's not something that will ever change now. However SDLIDE does what you want, and is compatible with BB4W (apart from the debugging and profiling capabilities, which don't work on that platform). Alphabetical sorting is enabled with the 'Utilities... Sort List' menu selection.
RichardRussell

Re: Right click to get procedures and functions overview

Post by RichardRussell »

Here's what I have on my desktop: one icon which runs BB4W with the default IDE and another which runs it with SDLIDE. I select whichever has the facilities I most want for that session.

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Ivan
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Joined: Tue 07 May 2019, 16:47

Re: Right click to get procedures and functions overview

Post by Ivan »

Thanks.

I assumed it was me who did not how to. It's just an inconvince for me because of my dyslexia but that will do for now.

I'm to deep in my program right now to switch programming system.
BBC Model B - 1984-1989. 6502 assembler, Unicomal 1988-1994, Some C and C++, Pascal 1990-1994. Bought a copy of BBC-BASIC 2007, but started to program at a daily basis 2019. C++ in 2021.
RichardRussell

Re: Right click to get procedures and functions overview

Post by RichardRussell »

Ivan wrote: Sat 07 Nov 2020, 20:38I'm to deep in my program right now to switch programming system.
SDLIDE is designed to have a very similar interface to the BB4W IDE, I would not expect you to have any difficulty switching between them. If you want something even more similar you could use bbcide; that doesn't do an alphabetical sort either but because it's written in BASIC I would expect that it can be added very easily, probably just adding CBS_SORT to the combobox flags (just tried it - yes it really is that simple!).

So bbcide may be the best solution for you, trivially tweaked to add the CBS_SORT flag (use the Add Windows Constants utility).