Zeus IDE

Hi -

Nice editor so far, but I'm having some problems.
Am I supposed to be able to do the class browsing on FTP'd files? I can add the ftp'd files to the workspace, but the class browser screen is empty. If I copy the files locally, and add them to the workspace the class browsing works just fine, however I'd like to use the FTP file feature so I don't have to worry about multiple copies of the code.

Also, if I have an ftp'd file open, and do a "save as url", and change the filename it is saving to, the editor crashes.

Do I have something wrong in my config, or are these features not yet functional?

Steve

Hi Steve,

Am I supposed to be able to do the class browsing on FTP'd files? I can add the ftp'd files to the workspace, but the class browser screen is empty.

The class browser display is a visual representation of the ctags information for all the files in the workspace and this information is generated by the xtags.exe (ie ctags.exe) executable.

But when the files are ftp located there is a problem since short if actually downloading each of the file in the workspace there is no local file to give to xtags.exe for tagging and hence no tag information to display

however I'd like to use the FTP file feature so I don't have to worry about multiple copies of the code.

The only thing I can think of at this stage would be to change the Tags Update menu to automatically download the file and run the xtags.exe on the file.

This would mean you could turn off all the auto-updating of the class browser, but at least you could manually run the tags update once in a while to refresh the class browser information.

But this would mean the tags update could take quite a length of time since every file in the workspace would need to be downloaded for tagging.

I guess my question would be is such a feature worth even considering

If such a feature was added to Zeus would anyone use it

Also, if I have an ftp'd file open, and do a "save as url", and change the filename it is saving to, the editor crashes.

Zeus should never, ever crash

I tried to replicate the crash at this end but for me it worked fine. So could you please do the following:

1. Delete the current ZeusErr.dmp and Zeuserr.log
2. Use the Options, Editor Options menu and turn on the Help debug tools, macros and executables option.
3. Do a File Open URL and a File Save As URL
4. Use the Macros, Macro Output Debug menu to display the ftp trace information and save this to a text file
5. Send the ftp trace, ZeusErr.dmp and Zeuserr.log files to jussij@zeusedit.com

Cheers Jussi