Re: RosAsm

From: Beth (BethStone21_at_hotmail.NOSPICEDHAM.com)
Date: 04/30/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:30:35 +0100

The Wannabee wrote:
> Rene wrote:
> > Not sure what you mean with "all user created documents", but,
>
> I mean. If a game : Save all game files in the exe on exit.
> if a notepad : save all files in the exes private directory
> if a bitmapdrawing program, save all bitmaps created in the exe.
> if ANY program changes/modifes files, do it in the exe.
>
> Then, neither programmer or user needs to worry about where they
are. When
> talking this one file with him, all needed "documents" can come with
him,
> or at least the current state of the program.

Ah, what you mean is: "Why haven't you got anything like Beth's
'instant assembly' ideas in RosAsm?"...because, as you may have worked
out, it's not only about getting the stuff assembled faster...it's an
_overall_ strategy for more "seamless" development...as you type, it
_does_ assemble things and directly edit the ".exe" (or, at least,
it's editing an ".exe" in memory, even if it doesn't actually "commit"
that to the ".exe" file until you hit "save" or "run" (or, why not?
"autosave every 5 minutes" or automatically when you close the editor
:) but this is an "implementation detail" to do with not rushing back
and forth to the disk all the time with every character typed...you
know, just like holding files in a "cache" and then only actually
writing them to disk "lazily" in a spare five minutes or when other
actions - like clicking "run" - force it to bring the file up-to-date
;)...as I've said, the "speed" thing is actually a "convenient
concidence" in that I don't particularly think it's all that important
(indeed, modern machines shoot through most code before you can blink
that who cares about a few seconds, much less fractions of a second ;)
and it wasn't the reason for the "instant compilation" ideas...the
"seamless" thing - something similar to what you're talking about
here - was the original inspiration...but once you head down an
"incremental" path, might as well grab all the "bonus" stuff it
naturally offers too, like "speed" and so forth ;)...

> > Not fully sure, and no time to verify today (tired and
> > Jazz festival tonight... :)
>
> Oki. Have fun. Remember to have drink. Its not healthy to not _ever_
> drink. So say the doctors in this country.

Aye! Raise a glass of merriment to all, Rene...you cool jazz "cat",
you ;)...

Beth :)

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