gIDE Update

The new Create project dialog I mentioned earlier this week has hit trunk as of about 5 minutes ago and everything seems to be working fine as always the svn repository is http://mlowen.com/svn/gIDE/trunk.

Before I get back to adding new features to gIDE there are a couple of more overhauls of the current system that I want to do, the parts I want to look at are:

• Configuration system.
• Add file dialog.
• Remove file dialog.

The configuration system doesn’t need much more than some tweaking and at the most is a nights work.  I’m also thinking about doing away entirely with the remove file dialog as it just seems clunky where a right click menu would do the trick.  The add file dialog is the only one that I’m not overly sure how to approach as of yet, originally it was a quick hack to get the functionality in there (much like the create project dialog) with the intent of replacing it later.  Well the time has come to do away with the quick hack but I’m just not sure what the new dialog should look like, all I know is I want something different from what I currently have which can be seen in the screenshots below.

Default add file dialog.

Adding a new file to a subfolder of the project

As you can see these are pretty bloody horrible, will probably brainstorm tonight and post some design sketches tomorrow or Friday.

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Latest gIDE Progress

Recently I finished the new Create Project dialog in gIDE which integrates with the project template system I wrote earlier, for those who saw the previous one this is a marked improvement. The new dialog is similar to create dialogs in most IDE’s where the user chooses the language they want to work in and the project type. Given that information gIDE will get the appropriate project template and creates the project.  It is currently using a placeholder image for the Project Icon,  I want to make this configurable in the project template and replace the placeholder image with a different default image.

This first screenshot shows gIDE when the create project dialog first opens:

This second shows just the create dialog with some random choices made:

Finally just to round things off a screenshot of gIDE in action working on another project I’m hacking away on:

The working create dialog has not been commited to svn yet as there is one or two small bugs I’m trying to track down but it should be up within the next day or two.

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Projects

Now that the new server is up and running smoothley I decided to migrate my two relatively new project into the svn repositries on this sever, at some point I’ll make a better post about each project but for now a brief introduction will have to do. Both of these projects are available for anonymous checkout from svn and the source is browsable online, a link will be posted so you can do both these things.

Axalon

Axalon is a collaborative GUI designer written in C# and is being developed on windows, I haven’t quite yet decided what license to release it under, but chances are it will be the GPL. For those that are curious it is the rewrite of my research project I did at university last year, after seeing how to do things better I figured a complete re-write might be easier. The svn repo (also where you can browse the source on line) is:

http://mlowen.com/svn/axalon

gIDE

gIDE is a simplistic IDE designed for the Gnome desktop enviroment written in C++, it uses Gtkmm and various other related librarie. gIDE is being released under version 2 of the GNU GPL, the svn repo is:

http://mlowen.com/svn/gIDE

With both these projects feel free to check them out and play around with them, they are both in early stages of development and not really all that useful, hopefully I will have pages up for them by the end of the weekend but don’t hold me to anything.

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