it probably means a lot more work, but i think it would be great to have an all-in-one solution with vide 2.0. meaning source editor, graphics editors, sound editors and compiler and emulator integration combined in one environment. just like the current vide, but much more advanced.
it should be stand alone, and not require (possibly expensive?) external programs like visual studio.
so besides already mentioned things, this would mean that we need a much better integrated source editor.
if you have created bgmaps and such for a project, it’d be cool to be able to include them directly, without having to export the to a *.h file. i am not sure if it already is possible, since i did not use vide’s source editor, yet.
furthermore, we should think about a better concept for handling charset, since it is currently not possible to use chars from different charsets for one bgmap. maybe we could have containers in which 4 charsets can be conbined for a virtual char ram? probably someone can come up with a better idea to handle that.
if we stretch the container idea a bit further, we could also have containers of other kinds. like if you have a 3d bgmap, which consists of two sepereate maps, one for the left, one for the right eye, those could be put in a container, which could also have a red/blue 3d preview option.
that’s what i can think of now, but i will mess around with vide today, so probably more will come to my mind then. 😉
EDIT:
vide should not open all charsets, bgmaps etc on startup, this can lead to crashs with bigger project files. 😉
include *.h file option.