Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!eagle.wesleyan.edu!rcook From: rcook@eagle.wesleyan.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Think Pascal Wishes...? Message-ID: <1990Sep26.171445.33585@eagle.wesleyan.edu> Date: 26 Sep 90 22:14:45 GMT References: <4251@husc6.harvard.edu> <1990Sep24.231422.7178@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <12142@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Lines: 33 First of all I think it's fabulous that you are asking us what changes we would like. I just hope you have the time and energy to implement all the great suggestions I have read so far. Here's my list: 1. I often use assembly language in my programs, and even with MultiFinder it is a pain to have to switch to the Editor, then to the Assembler, then to the Library converter (I'm using MDS), and back into THINK Pascal. I would really appreciate an integrated assembler in the TP environment. Ideally we could have an Assemble... command in a menu which would assemble the code in an editor window, depositing the object code in your project, and the option for inline assembly code as in C. 2. I put a lot of effort into the appearance or my programs on the screen, so I fain myself going into ResEdit all the time to adjust icons, windows, dialogs, cursors, etc. Again, MultiFinder is good, but an integrated resource editor would be better, I think. I am not talking about putting all of ResEdit into TP, but just some basic stuff, like string/string list, icon, pattern, cursor, dialog, alert, DITL, and window editors into THINK Pascal. I often find myself hard coding strings into my programs because it is such a pain to have to go into ResEdit everytime I think to include a new string into my program. An integrated resource editor would make this a snap. Just too reiterate some other good suggestions I have heard, I like the ideas of a version control system, a way to wrap long lines of code, an option to not pretty print a file, and a way to save a pretty printed file in a word processor's format. That's about it. I anxiously await the arrival of THINK Pascal version 4... -- Randall Cook rcook@eagle.wesleyan.edu --