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Geek Culture / Making my own IDE, any examples or tutorials? where to start?

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Mussi
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Posted: 25th Apr 2004 16:42
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so I want to make my own IDE, I know there are a lot out there but I want to make my own . I've never done this before and I have no Idea where to start, only know how you can use the compiler to compile a .dba file. so what else do I need to know? I'm using C++ btw.



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Dave J
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Posted: 25th Apr 2004 17:15
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Well it all depends on you, it's not hard, basically you'll use the keywords.ini files in the current IDE directory to set syntax highlighting on the source code. Then you can parse the source code to the compiler to create EXE's or run it in debug mode, etc. That's the bare minimal, after that you can add whatever nifty features you want.


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Rob K
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Posted: 25th Apr 2004 17:19
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I learnt about the .dbpro project format by looking at the files produced by the existing editor. There is some documentation available from Lee if you email him.

Planning is all I would say.

A lot of the stuff in my IDE I had to change several times and it was quite difficult because I hadn't thought about it enough before I started.

Things to consider:

- How projects / files are managed
- How the user will navigate between open files
- How you will parse the source for function/var/type/label declarations
- How you will display help to the user
- How you will do syntax highlighting etc. (for C++, it might be a good idea to use an existing package like Scintilla (www.scintilla.org))

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Mussi
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Posted: 25th Apr 2004 19:12
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thanks guys



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