Thread: Best IDE feature

OMG I just found one of the best IDE features ever! I've never seen anything like this before!

I'm learning java so I downloaded JCreator, and it has one of the best IDE features I've ever seen. It expands/hides curly braces, so you can hide bits of your code when your editing! You could be working on a 1000 line program, with say 100 functions, and just have 99 of them shrunk while the one your working on is expanded!

I'll attatch a screenshot.

Does anyone know of a C++ editor thats able to do that? Or even better, something that can add the feature to Visual C++ 6.0?

Is this the best IDE feature ever, or have you seen better?

ummm.....a bit late....

Dev-cpp 4.9.8.3 already does that....

I am not on my pc so i;m not sure about the above mentioned version n umber...

Dev C++ has collapsing tree only in the Classes tab. stovellp is talking about collapsing in the code window.

Edit: Yeah that is a sweet feature.

Hey I read Visual C++ .NET has it, is that true? Man I'd upgrade to that just for this feature!

IDE's on linux like anjuta and there are many others they also have that feature plus instead of just code it does it for many lines of comments that you can push that plus/minus sign to show or not show comments.

Originally posted by stovellp
Hey I read Visual C++ .NET has it, is that true? Man I'd upgrade to that just for this feature!

if u dont get your answer ill install it tomorrow night and let u know, i need to do some crap anyway.

Thanks RobR

The folding feature also works for multiline /**/ comments too

VS.NET has this feature, and much much more.

I needed a reason to install .net, i havent coded since i graduated from HS (pushing 9mos), thats BAD....

I'm using 2003 and I didn't have to turn it on after installing it.

kwrite has it too.

What is .NET?

http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showt...threadid=49509

*yawn* Linux cat and DOS edit both have this feature