Not sure if I will have my ass kick for this but...

[K.I.L.E.R]

How would I get VC++ 6 to debug like Borland C++ builder 1 does?

What I mean is if an error is encountered, that it highlights the line with the error after taking me to the page.

I have not used VC++ much, I have been so used to DecC++ and Borland C++.

Please don't kill me if this is the wrong forum. Thanks

 

[antlers]

You mean while compiling?

Just double-click the error in the output window, it should take you to the right file/line

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

Ahh, thank you.

 

[epicstruggle]

i love the debug feature of vc++ in .net and ver. 6

later,

 

[elchuppa]

you would not believe how much time I spent with that problem.. trying to figure out how to put line numbers in the margins.. banging my head for hours.. hmm, what if I just double clicked on the error message.. doh.

 

[Captain Chickenpants]

Something that you can do to put messages into your build to remind you that a function is not implemented for example is to use

#pragma message("Your message here")

You can extend that so that you can click on the message like a build error by doing some defines

#define __LOC__ __FILE__ "("__STR1__(__LINE__)") : Warning Msg: "
#define __STR2__(x) #x
#define __STR1__(x) __STR2__(x)

and then your warning message becomes

#pragma message ( __LOC__"Sense Functions not implemented" )

Note that their is no ; as these are preprocessor directives.
Basically you are defining a macro called __LOC__ which uses two build int preprocessor macros called __FILE__ and __LINE__ to construct a string which is in the same format as warning messages

Have fun ;-)

CC

 

[Hyp-X]

You mean while compiling?

Just double-click the error in the output window, it should take you to the right file/line

Or just press F4.
Pressing multiple times cycles through all the errors.

 

[Roger Kohli]

Why would anyone use VC++ when you could use Borland C++ Builder 6

 

[pcchen]

In which way BCB 6 is better than VC++ for game developers?

 

[Luke Philpot]

Why would anyone use VC++ when you could use Borland C++ Builder 6

The question is... why use Borland C++ Builder 6 when you can use VC++?

 

[Hyp-X]

Well the big advantage of Borland C++ is the much more productive form editor.
It's not useful for a full screen application, but when you want to do a windowed one like our level editor, it comes handy.
We tried to compile our code with BC++ but it couldn't handle some ANSI C++ features. It has an ANSI compatibility option though. To bad it wasn't able to compile it's own headers with it...

VC 6 is not the best in ANSI compatibility, but it's way better.
As for VC 7 - it would be the best compiler - but the user interface is plain unusable (missing key features that VC 6 had, has showstopper bugs).

So far we stuck with VC 6.

 

[Roger Kohli]

In which way BCB 6 is better than VC++ for game developers?

Probably no difference whatsoever. I've never written a game so I'm not really qualified to say.

The question is... why use Borland C++ Builder 6 when you can use VC++?

Hyp-X answered for me

Well the big advantage of Borland C++ is the much more productive form editor.

I guess its just personal preference really, I just find Borland much, much nicer to use. Oh, and it doesn't fill your files with commented out lines which you mustn't touch and you'd really rather not see!

 

[pcchen]

No, it's not just personal preference. I believe that most game developers use VC++ instead of BCB. Furthermore, as with Hyp-X, I had some bad experiences with BCB...

 

[JohnH]

If you benchmark the compiled code each produces you'll find there's a very good reason why you should be using MS VC, well for anything thats CPU bound that is (it used to be a substantial margin, no idea if borland have gotten any better)...