I completely agree with you. I have shared my thoughts in an earlier thread, that is about a visual openlaszlo editor. There is an Eclipse plugin called Spket [1] which is a useful tool to create openlaszlo applications. But it just supports syntax highlighting and type autocompletion and a visual snippet side. But anyway this is not a reason to do not need a featured Openlaszo Ide. Especially while creating the visual components in my openlaszlo applications, it takes a long time to do what I want. It would be great to use an Openlaszlo editor developed by the openlaszlo community.
Kind regards. [1] - http://www.spket.com/ 2010/2/28 <[email protected]> > I've been using OpenLaszlo for about 6 months now, so I am certainly not > an expert. And I don't want to sound like a complainer. But I must say, I > am REALLY baffled at the lack of a full-featured IDE (or plugin) for > OpenLaszlo. I really like OL, and I want to develop with it. But the lack > of IDE support is really a drawback, compared to other current development > environments . And I have seen this sentiment mentioned frequently by > others. With the seemingly-strong community out there, I would expect a > nice full-featured IDE available, sponsored by OL. > > I have tried most of the third-party available offerings, and don't get me > wrong, they are certainly better than a text editor, and I greatly thank > their contributors. However they mostly seem 1) stalled in their > development and/or not updated, and 2) only have basic features beyond > common syntax highlighting. What about project-wide "intellisense" type > autocompletion support of Laszlo's mixed XML and Javascript code? None of > them have this, to my knowledge. Am I missing something, perhaps? I've > searched and searched. It would be hard to believe someone not having > discussed this already. > > I think this is necessary to be competitive and gain traction, and would > really be a big factor in attracting more developers into the community, > thus benefiting everyone all around. Is there some reason OpenLaszlo has > not got behind such an effort? Or maybe they are, but it has not come to > fruition yet? I certainly would like to have something to look forward > to. A current Eclipse plugin would be just awesome. No need to re-invent a > whole new IDE framework. The available ones for Netbeans and Eclipse are > good starts. Couldn't they be updated and taken to fruition? > > Thanks... > -- Cem SONMEZ
