CodeSurge is a brand new free IDE by Hyrum Richter for DarkBASIC Professional. Although still in development it already has a strong following, and is declared as being one of the best alternative IDEs out there. Fast, efficient and professional, it features a good array of functions including:
- All the functionality you'd expect from any edior (cut, copy, paste, find, etc.)
- Syntax highlighting for third party commands as well as the built in DBP commands.
- IDE jumps to the correct line an error occurs on as long as the compiler reports it properly.
- Tabbed interface, with the option to cascade or tile your IDE windows in an MDI layout
- Customizeable layout with Visual Studio style dockable forms.
- Code explorer lists all your functions, labels, and includes.
- Very small, fast, and stable executable. Download size is under 1mb and there is no noticeable slowdown on even very large projects.
- No one has ever reported that it ate their code!
- Option to associate DBP files with the IDE.
And the best feature of all is that it's completely free. The IDE also features highlighting of RUNTIME errors. This means if in the middle of running your game, you get an "error, cannot load image at line 1234", the IDE will jump to the correct line, even if it's in an include file.
You need to be registered on our forum to download this, but that only takes a few moments. Once registered grab the latest version of CodeSurge from here: http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=78701&b=8.
