[Liberty-eiffel] IDE proposal for Windows

[Hans Zwakenberg | Ocean Consulting GmbH]

Hi group,

 

with Notepad++ I found an excellent Windows-based code editor (almost an IDE), one that is much leaner than Eclipse and the like.  It is rather easy to allow for eye-candy like syntax colouring, etc.  If there exists some Eiffel standard for colouring, fonts, etc, I'd be happy to adapt that.

Also, a plug-in system allows any user to add functionality.  One of these plug-ins I found is called 'SourceCoockifier', which understands the Eifel syntax as well and can present a treeview of the content of a class.  Of course this is only useful with larger classes.

Currently I'm looking into what it would take to create a plugin that initiates a project's compilation sequence and somehow opens a window/control that displays the compiler's feedback...

 

It's just a proposal I'm looking into it, but at least it looks rather simple and hence maintainable.

 

Please see the attached screenshot...

 

cheers

Hans

 

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> Hi group,
>
> as I'm slowly working towards creating a working Windows distribution, some
> random thoughts cropped up, that I'd like to discuss:
>
> - Windows programmers generally aren't too keen about languages without any
> native GUI support, unless the language is meant for web- or script-programming
> - Windows programmers generally sort of expect that a compiler comes with an IDE
> that shortens edit/compile/test-cycles
>
> It's moot to start a discussion about whether such Win-progger sentiments are
> justified or not, it's just the dynamics of the Windows scene as I got to know
> it.
>
> Since the team is very small, perhaps we should think about the availability of
> either of the above in a cross-platform way:
> - are any of the x-platform GUI's wrapped to Eiffel already? (Perhaps wxWidgets
> or some other good library?)
> - is there any x-platform editor (perhaps Java-based?) that can be used to
> attached scripts to configurable buttons? ("comppile", "make", or whatever,
> etc...)
>
> Any suggestion about the above is very welcome indeed! Also any other idea
> about easing a newbie's entry into Eiffel - and how to reach him is welcome. I
> suppose that last question is about marketing communications really, but you get
> my drift...
>
> cheers
> Hans
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> From: Germ?n Arias <address@hidden>
> To: Hans Zwakenberg | Ocean Consulting GmbH <address@hidden>
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> Hi,
>
> On 2014-08-20 11:32:06 -0600 Hans Zwakenberg | Ocean Consulting GmbH <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Hi group,
> >
> > as I'm slowly working towards creating a working Windows distribution, some
> > random thoughts cropped up, that I'd like to discuss:
> >
> > - Windows programmers generally aren't too keen about languages without any
> > native GUI support, unless the language is meant for web- or
> > script-programming
> > - Windows programmers generally sort of expect that a compiler comes with an
> > IDE
> > that shortens edit/compile/test-cycles
> >
> > It's moot to start a discussion about whether such Win-progger sentiments are
> > justified or not, it's just the dynamics of the Windows scene as I got to know
> > it.
> >
> > Since the team is very small, perhaps we should think about the availability
> > of
> > either of the above in a cross-platform way:
> > - are any of the x-platform GUI's wrapped to Eiffel already? (Perhaps
> > wxWidgets
> > or some other good library?)
>
> I was looking this too. There is:
>
> http://fox-toolkit.org/
>
> Seem still in development. It have a wrapper for Eiffel here:
>
> http://eiffelfox.sourceforge.net/
>
> But this is unmaintained. No idea if this could be hard to update.
>
> > - is there any x-platform editor (perhaps Java-based?) that can be used to
> > attached scripts to configurable buttons? ("comppile", "make", or whatever,
> > etc...)
>
> This could be done easily with Emacs. I can help with this.
>
> Germ?n.
>
> >
> > Any suggestion about the above is very welcome indeed! Also any other idea
> > about easing a newbie's entry into Eiffel - and how to reach him is welcome.
> > I
> > suppose that last question is about marketing communications really, but you
> > get
> > my drift...
> >
> > cheers
> > Hans
> >
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 08:57:38 +0200
> From: Cyril ADRIAN <address@hidden>
> To: Germ?n Arias <address@hidden>
> Cc: Hans Zwakenberg | Ocean Consulting GmbH <address@hidden>,
> Eiffel <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Liberty-eiffel] Random thoughts about a Windows
> distribution
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> Hi,
>
> 2014-08-20 21:24 GMT+02:00 Germ?n Arias <address@hidden>:
>
> > > - is there any x-platform editor (perhaps Java-based?) that can be used
> > to
> > > attached scripts to configurable buttons? ("comppile", "make", or
> > whatever,
> > > etc...)
> >
> > This could be done easily with Emacs. I can help with this.
>
>
> There is already Emacs support in Liberty Eiffel. Any help with expanding
> it would be really welcome.
>
> Cheers
>
> Cyril
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> From: Cyril ADRIAN <address@hidden>
> To: "Hans Zwakenberg | Ocean Consulting GmbH" <address@hidden>
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> 2014-08-20 19:32 GMT+02:00 Hans Zwakenberg | Ocean Consulting GmbH <
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> > - is there any x-platform editor (perhaps Java-based?) that can be used to
> > attached scripts to configurable buttons? ("comppile", "make", or
> > whatever, etc...)
>
>
> eclipse?
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