A little Mac IDE

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Shinkiro1(Posted 2014) [#1]
I have been toying around with Objective C a few days and this is the result for now:


Of course there is tons of things I still have to implement and I am sure there is a lot of stuff that I have done wrong. But for the amount of work I had to put into this I am positively surprised how fast you can screw something together in cocoa (the gui lib of OSX).

PS: I will release a version as soon as the app becomes stable.


consty(Posted 2014) [#2]
This seems cool, I wonder how do perform the compilation command.

If you see here in this thread, I try to do run the application from the command line and I can't start the application.
http://www.monkey-x.com/Community/posts.php?topic=5586

Yours works fine?


ziggy(Posted 2014) [#3]
Looks nice!


Shinkiro1(Posted 2014) [#4]
Hey ziggy, do you have any tips or directions for building an IDE.
Obviously you know a bit about that right? ^^

In the above screen I used regular expressions for syntax highlighting but I assume in a 'real' IDE you have a complete AST in memory at all times?
It's just a very new topic for me and I would be glad for any input from an experienced developer.


ziggy(Posted 2014) [#5]
Hey ziggy, do you have any tips or directions for building an IDE.
Obviously you know a bit about that right? ^^
I don't know... maybe the best tip would be to stick to it and use it instead of any other IDE, so you can see what features you need, what works and what does not. If you can't use it daily for all your Monkey development, you should change things!


samowitsch(Posted 2014) [#6]
Cool, a native Mac monkey IDE. Looking forward!