[SDL] [VC++] IDE Features

[Anthony T.]

James,

Thanks, didn't know I had to add the headers to the project. Now VC7 does it
without adding the headers to the project. Sicne I haven't gone exclusively
VC7 yet (and nothing I do with SDL is using 7), this will help me alot.


----- Original Message -----
From: "James" <james at piku.org.uk>
To: <sdl at libsdl.org>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 4:54 AM
Subject: Re: [SDL] [VC++] IDE Features


> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 11:31:26PM -0500, Anthony T. wrote:
> | Daniel,
> |
> | I've been using VC6 and was never able to get AutoComplete, etc to work
with
> | any non-MS header files. Since I switched to VC7 it works... so maybe
its
> | just something MS only implemented partially in VC6.
>
> I've written my own headers for various DLLs I've written, and the
> autocomplete thing works in those.
>
> You need to #include the header (obviously!), but I think you also need
> to add it to the project (so it shows under the 'files' tab on the tree
> thing).
>
> Occasionally it breaks, and nothing shows, and VC++6 seems to sometimes
> decide to remove everything from the tree views, or even eat your
> project files. Two days ago it switched my keyboard from UK to US -
> while I was typing.
>
> VC++6 is one of the (very) few good things MS ever produced...
>