IDE step-by-step - function Run & Back to Edit
The search engine atop the Euphoria Archives Web Page is a very welcome tool
indeed.
When I used it to sieve on "IDE or PDE" and got 501 answers (or weirdly 254
only three days later), it seemed from even the most recent entries that
there still is no solution so far, and that the need for an IDE is often
referred to as crucial. Is my search too superficial?
I'd not be so much surprised that there's none: it is a huge endeavour, the
kind of which a commercial company would probably assign a full-time crew
to, while we are not organized as such. I suppose others than myself also
see it as a pharaonic task, not compatible with a family life.
I'm willing to address the issue however, breaking down the task antlike
into separate functionalities, and getting down at them one at a time.
That's why I restricted the subject of this message to the one function I
would personally begin with, and for which I am seeking advice and tutoring.
I have no practice of graphic mode, and rather leave it for later. With a
lesser ambition I'm going to try and progressively build-up a text-mode PDE
similar to the qBasic's I am familiar with. Anyone for tennis? I'm a
beginner.
When I once tried to run qBasic from a disquette, I noticed that it demands
the presence of edit.com on the same boot. Both have a very similar look and
behaviour indeed, with somewhat different task bars. QB's working on two
screens: F5 (Run) executes on screen 2 (in text mode), while Ctrl-C brings
back to the editor on screen1.
Hence my idea to build upon ED.EX, adding it another task bar and
progressively additional functions. But the question is open whether is it
better to build my gismo from ED.EX up or to call an original version of ED
by default from within a new PDE mantle. Any advice on that?
Then when I'll command to run on screen 2 the file under development, will
it be possible to pass to EXW (or EX or EXU) as parameter the address or
name of the "live" code in RAM (how to get it?) or do I have, or is it safer
to first save it on disk as a temporary file and execute the copy, which I
would kill as soon as I come back to ED on screen 1 (or keep stacked for
"undo" purpose)?
I first have to get some practice with Euphoria at my slow pace, then
understand fully how ED, syncolor and some other staple files work, and then
have a try. I would gratefully accept more tutoring once I am ready. Or
simply follow, learn and give credit. Probably better for the quality and
delays of the work.
PS: I acknowledge the recent announcement for an IDE with a coming compiler
and am eager to see it, although I am not even close to a beta-tester, and
am not sold to the compiling idea, possibly by ignorance.
Yours,
Alain
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