New Editor

[TimoVJL]

Can't run it in Windows 7 x64

[Biterider]

Hi Timo
What is the problem you are seeing running it on Win7? 

Biterider

[jj2007]

As for the SEH protection, I only added a Structured Exception Handling frame to a few critical code paths to prevent total loss in case of a crash.

So what happens if user has coded some kBytes and suddenly the electricity goes off? Or he gets a BSOD, etc? When simulating a crash by killing ADE.exe from Task Manager, the edits are apparently lost.

With RichMasm what happens is that on next launch user will be asked "You may have had a crash. Use last saved version?"

Actually, it's not the last saved version. It is what was on the screen before it crashed. RichMasm does nothing if you type like a madman, but if you stop typing for more than 5 seconds, it saves a mylastsource.tmp file.  When you save and exit, the tmp file gets deleted.

Now when you restart RichMasm, and it finds mylastsource.tmp in the folder of that source, it recognises that there was a crash and offers to restore the latest version.

I rarely see crashes, but in some cases (forced logoff...) this little feature saved me ;-)

[TimoVJL]

Hi Timo
What is the problem you are seeing running it on Win7?

Biterider

AMD CPU

[Biterider]

Hi Timo
These screenshots helped a lot. The problem seems to be that the CPU or this particular version of Win7 does not support AVX instructions. Win7 starting with SP1 does support them, but I think the problem is the old CPU.

I can step down with the supported instruction set and only use e.g. SSE/SSE2.

Biterider

[Biterider]

Hi Timo
Here is the same version as in the first post, but without AVX or SSE support, which is not a big deal for this application. I hope it works for you now.

Biterider

[TimoVJL]

Thanks, now it works.

Toolbar tooltips could be useful.

[Biterider]

Hi JJ

but if you stop typing for more than 5 seconds, it saves a mylastsource.tmp file.

This is certainly an interesting and good feature that can be added without much effort.

There are 2 messages for closing a session: WM_QUERYENDSESSION/WM_ENDSESSION
I have used the former in the past to trigger such data storage tasks.
Note: The editor does not do this yet

Biterider

[Biterider]

Hi Timo

Toolbar tooltips could be useful.

The code is there, but I do not have all the translations for the supported languages. I decided to leave that until I have all the code in place and know all the messages I need to display.

Biterider

[Biterider]

Hi
I have implemented a few more features:

• WM_QUERYENDSESSION logic 
• File->New now has the option to select the editor template 
• Same functionality for the "New" toolbar button using a drop down button.
• 3 editor templates: MASM, Resource & Plain Text. Each template has its own settings in the ini file 
• Information in the status bar what the application thinks it is editing 
• Tooltips for the toolbars 
• Drag & Drop automatically detects the file content and selects the best template.

Update on the first post.

I think it is time to implement the Undo/Redo feature. ATM I have no good idea how to implement it. Has anyone done this before?

Regards, Biterider

[jj2007]

I think it is time to implement the Undo/Redo feature

What do you mean? The RichEdit control does it automagically...

[Biterider]

Hi JJ
Im not using the RichEdit control. The editor is coded in pure asm!

Biterider

[jj2007]

You are courageous

[TimoVJL]

ADE open sqlite3.c in blink of eyes 
sqlite3.c size was just 9 MB 
So great wiewer for big files 

[ognil]

I think it is time to implement the Undo/Redo feature.  ATM I have no good idea how to implement it. Has anyone done this before?...

I did it in a very special "my" way, but you will have to wait until I finish and publish my Template64 project for more details.

"What do you mean? The RichEdit control does it automagically..."

You know very well that it is almost impossible to implement Do/Undo together with syntax highlighting. That is why your editor does not have syntax highlighting.