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From: gavinw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Gavin Wraith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: programming environment
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Date: 11 Feb 91 09:30:57 GMT
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> other compiler, too) is lacking the programming environment, which makes it
> easy to use (Editor-Compiler-Linker-Debugger together in the desktop with
> windows, icons and hot-keys). There is no support for it. I don't think that
> the !Edit-TaskWindow is enough. But - as I see - many people are developing
> many good applications. Which programming environment are you using? Twin? Or
> a selfmade utility? Or are you developing your software for the archimedes with
> a PC :-) ? What solutions do you have? I hope that many of you post about it
> (or mail me). I am curious.
>
> Seba
> s_jekutsch@irav1.ira.uka.de

I am not sure what the problem is. I use !Edit and a tiny Obey file
!make to click on. I agree that the debugger is not very
satisfactory for use with with programs that spend most of the time
executing RiscOSLib functions.

Incidentally, there seems to be a bug in res_openfile in Ansi C,
version 3, RiscOSLib. It appends a "1" to the end of its filename
argument. It is easily circumvented by using the system variable
"Application$Dir", or whatever, directly with fopen in stdio.h.

--- Gavin Wraith