Extended Syntax Highlighting, Auto-complete, and other niceties in the PDE?

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Extended Syntax Highlighting, Auto-complete, and other niceties in the PDE?

in Library and Tool Development • 2 years ago

I've been playing around with Processing for a bit and love the concept of the language. That being said, I'd like to write a tool that can provide:

Syntax highlighting for user (and library) defined functions and variables.
Auto-completion
Snippets
Access to jDoc information

I'm looking at the ToolBasics page now; should I be thinking tool, library or what?

I actually came across Processing while doing research on domain specific languages. I came across a similar, but completely different, project: Frink. Anyone here ever try it out? IMO, while interesting and even potentially useful, Frink is just not as much fun as Processing.

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PhiLho

Re: Extended Syntax Highlighting, Auto-complete, and other niceties in the PDE?

2 years ago

People wanting such goodies currently go to Eclipse...
I believe that the Processing team is trying to improve the editor, perhaps using the NetBeans platform, that would provide code completion, tooltips, debugging facilities and such.

construct..

Re: Re: Extended Syntax Highlighting, Auto-complete, and other niceties in the PDE?

2 years ago

Interesting. I'm not a fan of Java, I've tried to embrace it numerous times, so I wont be going down that route.

There are some projects right now utilizing Processing.JS that look promising. I wonder if anyone has tried to write a processing IDE in Processing, that might be a 'fun' challenge!