I'm sure flashdevelop would be a great platform... if you dont care
about mac & linux. Unfortunately lots of people do. Of course the
flashdevelop guys can do what they want, as can everybody else. But if
there were to be a major effort to make a universal toolset, it
wouldnt make much sense to focus that effort on a win32 only platform
IMHO.

Now that said, I think that the biggest issue is largely platform
agnostic. Its realtime error detection.

I have never written a error detecting editor, like flex builder or
FDT, or whatever, but it seems to me that what really needs to be done
is focus on the core technology. If an editor could "call" a function
with a set of relevant parameters every time the user typed, and
asynchronously recieve feedback about where errors were, this would
make, I would think, adding such functionality to *any* editor easy.
Then it could be used in flashdevelop or asdt/hxdt etc.

It seems to me that this is entirely a *non* user interface function
and that the biggest issue would be defining the API and protocol for
the communication between the editor and the checker. There are people
that are very good with languages and command line stuff that could
really rock with this kind of separation. I cant define the spec
personally because I just dont know much about it but if someone were
willing to help define that specification and then we could get others
(for example nicolas) to provide an error checker for a given language
(like haxe) that supported the API, then we could easily mix and match
error detection and IDEs. This would be ideal.

So first, I would put out a call to people like the flashdevelop team,
the asdt guys, the aptana guys to help create an IDE to error detector
universal API/Interface.

Any takers?

Regards
Hank



On 8/30/06, Keith Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> from the earlier post... "It really has to be a Eclipse plugin ? I mean
> if it just can be a win32 application..."
>
> Martin Heidegger wrote:
> > Flashdevelop does not match the criteria "any platform" ...
> >
> > sorry
> > Martin.
> >
> > 2006/8/30, Keith Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>:
> >
> >     If you are not concerned about Eclipse, check into Flash Develop.
> >     A lot of
> >     awesome features, free, open source and under very active
> >     development.
> >
> >     -----Original Message-----
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> >     [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >     ASDT and HXDT ?
> >
> >     It really has to be a Eclipse plugin ? I mean if it just can be a
> >     win32
> >     application... It's that I don't do much Java development, and never
> >     have done any Eclipse plugin development. I might will look into it in
> >     the next holiday, can't believe it's a lot of work.
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