Cliff Baeseman wrote

I can supply you with the rose images....

It shouldn't be too bad to work out, plus it will help me get used to where everything is and how it is put together. It is a dual purpose exercise, help document, and learn together.

I will propbably work more this evening, if I haven't got it close by then, I'll pass it on.

Jeff.

Cliff,

I am still working on the Simple IDE. I was really confused with its code and was struggling to get things fixed with the original, so I have basically rewritten it. I used Glade to design it and output C source code. Then I converted the C code to Pascal. I also have a pretty nice Compiler Options dialog working for it. I have almost everything working except the syntax highlighting, find/replace and compile.

I found a pretty nice LGPL Pascal lexical parser and just got it compiled and working today. So I was going to plug it into the new Simple IDE and get the syntax highlighting going. Then I was going to add the compiler and find/replace. So it is actually pretty close to working now. But the whole thing is just straight GTK code and like the original, very procedural.

But it sounds by this message that maybe I should give up on the Simple IDE and concentrate on helping you all with building components. I can do that if you all want me to. I am willing to work on whatever is most helpful to everyone.

Should I finish the Simple IDE, or should I start helping build some of the components?

Curtis

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I can supply you with the rose images....

Keep trying the component implementation. It is a bitch to get used to but you
will figure it out.

Send me your code I will help you out!!!!

Cliff

Curtis White wrote

Should I finish the Simple IDE, or should I start helping build some of the components?

How much more time do you estimate before you have something really useful?

Cliff Baeseman wrote

Note* The lazarus ide main form still gets blow away if you do a resize it has something to do with a improper functioning control I will try to

narrow

that one down next.

Have you tried to build this on your Win32 box? I jest checked out the latest and "make clean" "make" on everything. The IDE comes up, but there are errors when you open a file. It does not display any text, just a grey window. Also, if you then click Save, the program abends. I am attaching the debug output for the following actions:

Load lazarus
Click File | Open
Select buttons.pp (just a small grey box appears, no text) Move the window down a bit (it covers the menu)
Click File | Save
<crash>

Also, just curious. What code produced the Tabbed Notebook IDE that is on the web page screen shots? Is this what I am "supposed" to see, or is the separate window per file what is intended?

Jeff.

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I can probably have something pretty useful by the end of this week, maybe sooner, depending on how much time I can spend on it. It isn't going to be real robust like a normal IDE. It will just have simple syntax highlighting, open/save, search/replace and will be able to compile. But it is better than vi for people who do not know vi or are new to Linux from Windows or Mac.

It is up to you all. I can continue with it or start working on components. It doesn't really matter much to me either way. I just want to help out with Lazarus as much as I can.

Curtis

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Jeff the tabbed deal you see on the web site was a pure gtk direct coded fron end that myself and Curtis was working on until the component tree was finished by shane and michael. The intent was to provide the linux guys with a simple ide to work from.

We have since jumped back into the component source again to speed along that development. If you wish to see that source it is avilable for download from the download page last link..

I know about the errors but we are focused mainly on getting the controls up to speed. Once the controls are there we can snap the IDE together at a pretty good clip.

Mine crashes also that is why I am compiling the test project contained in the zip on the web site vs the lazarus project. This allows me to test controls without having to worry about controls that are not rock solid yet.

Soon I will go thru the menu stuff again and see if I can fix that stuff up.

Cliff

Cliff Baeseman wrote

We have since jumped back into the component source again to speed along that development. If you wish to see that source it is avilable for

download

from the download page last link..

Like I said, I was just curious. I am focusing on trying to find things to document, since what I've tried here on components has been a mess. I've tried implementing a TPanel, which should be fairly trivial, but no luck so far.

I know about the errors but we are focused mainly on getting the controls

up

to speed. Once the controls are there we can snap the IDE together at a pretty good clip.

Ok, I'll keep digging around. Right now I am looking for things to add to the web page. That Component Heirarchy (sp?) that has been asked for seems useful, so I'll dig that down. Too bad I don't have a tool like Rational Rose ;^)

Jeff.

I asked for him to just jump on the controls with us. He can program the hell out of gtk and we can just integrate that code into the final product. Curtis and myself have a lot of lex parser code we can use as well as some of the forms and methods we used to do the dynamic page generation and such. We are getting the controls up to speed pretty quickly now and I am sure we would just pass up his development effort soon.

I say we just archive the code and use it in the very near future. I have my systems pretty well tweaked at the moment for code development so productivity is not much an issue.

Cliff

I just applied the changes to allow the proper placement of controls. You can now stretch a form and all of the controls stretch and maintain proper control relation to the form.

the test units display this functionality. You can change the control alignment to test the functionality.

Note* The lazarus ide main form still gets blow away if you do a resize it has something to do with a improper functioning control I will try to narrow that one down next.

Cliff