How close are we to a stable v1.5?

[FellippeHeitor]

I didn't catch it because you edited an older post. As Steve pointed out, look into the new Tools menu.

[bplus]

Oh! Thanks, guess I don't have to memorize Ctrl+K to check keyhits.

[Dav]

I've always liked the upper caps keywords, but that camel case is really growing on me.  Looks good.

Looking through the changelog, you all have done a lot of great work in this version.   Thanks!

- Dav

[bplus]

Yes I was just going down the list of Changes, hadn't come to Camel Case and Tools menu yet.

It is easier to review the ChangeLog with the QB64 version it's talking about.

Like the dark Blue!, I changed comment color to 0, 160, 0  you guys might like that too.

[bplus]

Is there a listing of short cut keys anywhere in Help?

or maybe an idea for Tools?

[Bert22306]

Boo, hisss, about this "camel case" change. Keywords being all caps helps, because it confirms that you just wrote a keyword. I think it should be enabled by default. But okay, at least the new idea can be disabled.

I realize that VB did it this way too, no shouting. But to me, the all caps was a feature. Hell, it even helps when we type up stuff in this forum, to make it clear.

Thanks for allowing its continued use.

[johannhowitzer]

When in doubt about which way to take a feature, let the user choose.  :)

[bplus]

Boo, hisss, about this "camel case" change. Keywords being all caps helps, because it confirms that you just wrote a keyword. I think it should be enabled by default. But okay, at least the new idea can be disabled.

I realize that VB did it this way too, no shouting. But to me, the all caps was a feature. Hell, it even helps when we type up stuff in this forum, to make it clear.

Thanks for allowing its continued use.

I am working into a system, if the first letter is Capital it's Global like Const, Type, Shared variables or Arrays and my Subs and Functions I define, so as long as Keywords which start with Cap have to be Global, fine!
And just use camel again for local but have the 1st letter always lower case.

Then when you type, don't ever shift for caps, do all lower case (it's easier anyway) and the Globals will pop up if you typed them right. The locals are just a quick scroll up or down if you need to double check the spelling.

[Bert22306]

Yes, I get that, bplus. Thing is, I also tend to type everything lower case, except that I may have caps and lower case letters, in some of my variable names. As in, something like, InitialAngle.

So, to the extent possible, just like you I'm typing in lower case. So it's very reassuring when the keywords are trivially easy to distinguish, right after you've typed them. It also confirms that there are no syntax errors elsewhere in the program, when the keyword changes itself to all caps.

Here's the irony. I thought that QB64 stayed with all caps, in keywords, because it was better, than the way VB did it. I guess we make our own realities, eh? Anyway, fine with me, if we have a choice.

[FellippeHeitor]

Not only you have a choice of switching back to all caps, but you also get confirmation of keyword correctly typed because the initial will still change to a capital - sometimes more than the initial for keywords like InKey$ - not to mention that even if you disabled any formatting (which you can do - some people like to keep their code in all small letters, right @luke?) you could still confirm all you typed is correct because keywords are colorized immediately as you type them.

[Pete]

I hope I can get my WP wrapped up... no pun, wait, pun intended... so I can upgrade from 1.3 to 1.5. Version 1.3 is great, but I'm going to want that "AS" UDT ability in 1.5. I'm skeptical about the new IDE text features. I'll either love them or hate them, but whogas, as long as I can decide to keep or toss them in the options menu.

Looking forward to the stable release date,

Pete

[Bert22306]

you could still confirm all you typed is correct because keywords are colorized immediately as you type them.

Aha, a detail I had missed. That might make enough of a difference, right there. I'll be downloading this update in short order, and give it a spin. Got to get some work out of the way first. Thanks!!