Hi Eric Schonning, hope you are having a nice day
09-Aug-96 07:24:32, Eric Schonning wrote to Marcel Veldhuizen
          Subject: Re: PB 3.0a Vs 3.2
 ES> I disagree completely.  Better help screens?  Perhaps to you, not to
 ES> me.
 O ja?? Euhhmm... Generally speaking, QB gives me more info about the
 statment then PB, so I won't have to get the manuals..
 ES> The reformatting is also a 'feature' I can do without.  Who needs it? 
 ES> I format my code the way I want it, I don't like some program doing it
 ES> for me, unless I tell it to.
 Well, yes, it should have been an option...
 ES> You probably like windoze too I imagine.  Perhaps that is why you like
 ES> QB IDE.  I am not a fan of windoh's, and checkboxes take more time to
 ES> fill out.
 Not true... You can still just type the appropiate character to check it..
 Like Windhoze? Well, I use W95, but most of the time I find myself pressing
 CTRL-ALT-D to start a DOS-Window...
 ES> So as you can see we disagree on the way the IDE should work for PB.
 Well, Bob will just have to put in a lot of options:)
 ES> PB's ide conform to their old QB way of doing things, especially since
 Well, I think the PB 'ide' is just a text-editor with a few extra menu's..
 If you like it, fine, but I would be happy with an alternative..
 
 ES> It must be options to have on the fly syntax checking.
 Well, yes, sometimes that's a little irritating.. You were just typing
 'FOR Var% = 1 TO' and then have to look up what the ending number should
 be, QB starts whining about 'expected, blablabla'...
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