Plan for Sam Bacsa

For the past few days I've been working on heavily re-integrating the plugins system. Unfortunately, this means that any previous plugins code will become obsolete -- but this doesn't matter; the newer plugins architecture is 100x better and more intuitive than the last one.

Unfortunately, because of the nature of its implementation, I've been forced to leave open a lot of internal marshal objects used between PluginRes and the actual executable. While this is not the best solution overall, it's the only one that is available at this time without making it overly complicated the way I had it before (passing handles to objects rather than the actual references to the respective objects).

Feature-wise, I've almost completely integrated the type-as-you go autocomplete. There's now a nice "smart tab switch" capability embedded, like Visual Studio 2005 (pictured below). I fixed the majority of problems with the Intellicode syntax checker, as it was reporting some false positives on certain statements like:

$variable::property::new = test;  // Where "new" is a keyword and it goes OMGNOES

or

return new TCPObject();  // Couldn't return objects before like this without having it cite it as an error

or

new AClass(MyClass) {
    datablock = "something" @ $globvar;     // Couldn't make datablock equivalent to an expression
}

All of these issues have been fixed with the checker. Also, it will underline errors more visibly than it was before (sometimes it wasn't even underlining, even though there was an error in the statement). Oh, and the messages it reports back make more sense than they did before.

Fig. 1 - "Fast tabbing" ala Visual Studio 2005



I should have a release within the next couple of days. Thanks for everyone's patience.

- Sam