On Sep 7, 2011, at 11:56 AM, James Reid wrote: > I for one would like to see it based off of the Netbeans Platform. I have my > own editor for an inhouse language that is built on top of Netbeans and I use > ANTLR for my lexing/parsing and the parsing loop works great.
I looked at that, but it seemed very complicated, or at least with a very large learning curve. Given that the eclipse platform is probably more popular it seemed I should invest in that instead if I were going to look at a platform. in the end, I decided it would be simpler to do this in an isolated fashion with swing. > > With that aside, my biggest complaint would be the editor responsiveness that > Andreas was talking about. I also agree about the way Netbeans does it (half > second after user stops typing). agreed. that is my 1st priority. > > Another thing I would like to see is a menu/toolbar action to automatically > generate debug versions of the current grammar. I rarely launch the AW > debugger directly. I mainly have to use the remote debugger because of the > way my project is setup in Netbeans. I've been wondering about the build options... I'm not sure we want AW to really be part of the build process. I use intellij and/or ant for that. > So I have to open the preferences (which sometimes takes several several > seconds) type in -debug generate the language, move the files to my project > to test it out. Then, when I believe it's working, or I see what I was doing > wrong, I have to open the preferences again (which sometimes takes a while) > remove the -debug and regenerate. This process gets to be tedious and > annoying after doing it several times in a row. okay, I got it. added something to http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/~admin/2011/09/02/ANTLRWorks+2+planning%2C+features > > Another complaint would be the general GUI Look and Feel. Maybe I'm spoiled, > but after working in the Netbeans environment and then moving to AW to work > on my grammar stuff feels like a "downgrade". Don't get me wrong, AW is > great and it's helped me out enormously. I don't like the way the > docking/undocking of the AST panel during debugging works. Actually, I'm not > a fan of the docking situation in general. So, yeah the flow of the GUI in > general needs an overhaul in my opinion. I don't think I will be doing docking for this... I am not a GUI expert and would love it if somebody could draw out even with a pencil a few different view layouts that we need. > > Man, I wish I had more free time or I would start working on an AW > integration into Netbeans and/or a standalone Netbeans RCP of AW. with luck, these components will be widgets that you could incorporate easily. Ter List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "il-antlr-interest" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/il-antlr-interest?hl=en.
