JassCraft - Outdated ?

[Komaqtion]

Hi!
Since I'm learning JASS atm, I believe it's quite comdortable to have a nice application like JassCraft at hand to help you do the right stuff, though I just noticed that i hadn't used it for a while now, and i was going to dl it again and i noticed that it last got update in 2006

So i was wondering... Can you still use JassCraft and is it still a good application ??
Is there another like that which gets updated now ???

 

[Gtam]

Yes Newgen

 

[Darthfett]

JASSCraft works fine with regular JASS. However, Newgen pretty much incorporates everything JASSCraft had, plus it actually supports vJASS syntax.

You're probably better off downloading Newgen, as it is actually in the map environment instead of code off by itself.

 

[Komaqtion]

Yeah i have Newgen, i just like JassCraft better XD, don't ask me why though

(It has inlining things for example)

 

[Silvenon]

JassCraft is still a pretty handy program if you don't want to open WE for a few lines of code. I still keep it for some situations.

 

[kingkingyyk3]

I used JassCraft before I use NewGen. When I lazy to open NewGen, I use Notepad++ and vJass plugin.

 

[Komaqtion]

Nice, will try it out

 

[TriggerHappy]

Yeah i have Newgen, i just like JassCraft better XD, don't ask me why though

(It has inlining things for example)

JassHelper inlines also, unless you mean something else.

 

[Komaqtion]

Yeah, but you can just click a button with JassCraft, and it inlines everything... With Jasshelper, it inlines it all as you write, though if you delete some spaces and stuff, you might not know how it's supposed to be XD

 

[Frozenhelfir]

I personally found it much easier to learn using NewGen. I would say that JASScraft is outdated in the respect that you don't have the freedom that you have in NewGen. In NewGen you can use private functions, scopes, libraries, declare globals wherever you want, and use 2D-arrays. A lot of NewGen's (vJass) features made it easier for me to learn. NewGen is basically the industry standard. If you want help with your code, a lot of people will use vJass syntax because it is way more convenient. Almost all the systems that you will want to import into your map (and believe me, you will use them eventually) are all in vJass. You should start getting used to it now.

Also with the upcoming patch, JASScraft will have to make another update to incorporate all of the new functions. I'm not sure if the creators of JASScraft intend to make an update or not, but I know that NewGen is planning an update.

 

[jwallstone]

Actually Jasscraft dynamically incorporates everything in common.j, blizzard.j, etc. So if you patch, it will show up automatically.