Hi Matt, Correct. The reason for this idea is to make starting with JAL easier by offering an IDE on multiple platforms.
If you only use an Editor you still have to start the compiler and in case of problems you have to manually open the file where the error is and go to the line where the error is (JalEdit and JALIDE immediately open that file and jump to that line) so having only an editor and a separate call to the compiler is less user friendly. Next to that (another idea) is whether it would be possible to extend this IDE with real debugging facilities. With the Pickit3 (I assume also with others) and MPLABX you can set breakpoints and stop the execution. I assume there would be some API on the Pickit3 that makes this possible. Would it not be great if you could set a breakpoint in your JAL source code, stop the execution at your breakpoint and inspect registers and data area of the PIC? Just another idea that would make your JAL live easier. Kind regards, Rob ________________________________ Van: [email protected] <[email protected]> namens Matthew Schinkel <[email protected]> Verzonden: maandag 8 juni 2020 21:24 Aan: jallib <[email protected]> Onderwerp: [jallib] Re: A new JAL Integrated Development Environment suggestion. Everyone likes to use different editors, so it will be hard to get most people to switch. JalEdit is our current "approved" IDE since it's in our release packages. Does the version from Despx run on multiple platforms? This seems to be the logical choice if bugs are fixed and the code is shared on github. Matt. On Monday, June 8, 2020 at 12:57:40 PM UTC-4, RobJ wrote: Hi all, This message was posted on Jallist and Jallib. I have the following suggestion and am looking for somebody who wants to pick up the challenge. Nowadays we have 2 JAL Editors/Integrated Development Environments, JalEdit and JALIDE from the hard work of Sunish and Despx. The 'problem' is that these are Windows based and we also have Linux and MAC users. Next to that time has passed and so there are new options we can explore. It was suggested some time ago to use Notepad++. I did some tests with syntax highlighting and starting the compiler from Notepad++ and that partly works but it not the solution. It remains a text editor. So here my suggestion: We should create a JAL IDE using Visual Studio Code. It is free, multi platform (Windows, Linux. Mac) and offers a lot of features like: -) A very nice editor made for writing programs -) Syntax highlighting -) Snippits (not sure if we need them) -) Intellisense (autocomplete) -) Scripts (I assume we can start the compiler using these) You can make your own JAL extension to make it exactly matching the JAL programming language. Once you have this you can make the extension public and share it with the rest of the world via the extensions market place. And if you want you can install all kind of extensions yourself, e.g. code beautifiers that nicely indent your code. See: https://code.visualstudio.com/ The only issue is that you need Javascript knowledge to make the JAL extension (if I understood that right) and there is some code generation possible but you have to build the customization yourself. This is not my field of expertise (yet). Up to know I think this is the best jAL IDE alternative covering all platforms with a very professional user interface and user experience. So I was wondering if there is anybody who wants to pick up the challenge of creating a Visual Studio Code JAL extension. Kind regards, Rob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jallib/521388a2-827f-4de1-be1e-ea66dc29bfeao%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jallib/521388a2-827f-4de1-be1e-ea66dc29bfeao%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jallib/AM0PR07MB62412A3B51E4EB6AEE7AA2ADE6820%40AM0PR07MB6241.eurprd07.prod.outlook.com.
