Eeeep

Well as of my last post seems i've bitten off more than i can chew. Seems to be a lot more to write in this case than previously thought so it might be this weekend before i even get close to finishing the Interface Objects. Then may take up to a week to properly implement them into a releasable IDE.

grrrrrr

Interface Objects Done!!...Kinda

well i've finished the interface object creator to the standard i was originally aiming for, but today i had a better idea for a section of it as usual :(. So i'm going to go back and code it up, once thats done it'll make it easier for everyone to create an object and a bit easier for me to introduce into the main IDE.

So much work for something thats not going to be overly used...

Interface Objects almost done

well the only thing left to do with the interface objects is to implement them into the IDE; That is creating some sort of dynamic toolbox for each object.

Other things left to be done on the To Do list:
-Allow opening of multiple tabbed windows for interfaces (only for code at the minute)
-Allow saving of each tab.
-Implement the XML interface reader correctly, it is currently running on my old static interface object format so this needs renewed to the nice new objects that can be created using the Interface Object Creator :).

apart from that theres a few small problems to overcome but once all that is listed is done there shall be a beta version out!

Interface object creator

This little program will speed up the process of creating new XML files for window objects, its nearly done just need to write the XML writer and an XML reader for this file type. Don't worry the layout of the window will be fixed for a release

My Current Project

Well for about 3 months i've been working on an IDE mainly for scripting in the Messenger Plus Live add on for Windows Live Messenger. Its taking its time as i keep going back and redoing things to make it more flexible in the long run and quicker for me to update. Eventually it will become open source once i feel it is good enough and ready with tidy source code to be released.

Lately i've been adding some features to allow anyone to code up an interface object that they can add to a Form, this means in MPL's case i dont have to write the many many window objects myself i can leave it up to whoever wants to do it (as not all of them are used) and i can put them in with the install package if they are in perfect working order. So far with this i have everything coded apart from the parser that will read in a file and create the object from it and the class to add the object to the toolbox, So hopefully over the next few days that shall be finished. Then the rest is really just touch ups and its ready for its first major release i hope!