BACK

I'm back. Things are totting along, some hiccups here and there. Might get something this time

Slowly

It's coming along slowly. Still haven't replaced the zip library to comply with the LGPL, its hard finding a good compatible documented, .NET working one haha. Working a bit on a plugin system to allow user extras such as task lists. Still no list of translations (its to tedious for me to be assed with for a long time lol). Still no perfect code folding, still no intellisense although i did look into JScript interpretation for a few days. Someday (preferably before the end of September i will have a zip library and possibly a plugin system working enough for an updated release. Other than that, no progress on the interface designer so peaceeee.

Nearly at a milestone...

Well i'm so close to getting it to the standard i have wanted it to be at ever since i have started this project.

I am currently trying to get the old ScriptManager working again (i had a recode of the main core, which makes absolutely everything super easy now), ScriptManager is the biggest section of code and windows at the minute so it's taking its time.

Other than that, left to do:
Finish OpenScriptDialog to make it look nice on Vista and 7.
Find a way to restart a single script and install/handle opening of plsc files from Windows Explorer etc
Fix a few bugs that can only be fixed once ScriptManager is working.

Then i am at the milestone where i only have to begin drawing controls like they are shown in the Interface tester etc.

The next update will be when i get ScriptManager and installation of files working. Then there will be a general preview (still without Interface designer) for all you guys to find bugs and translate!

Fun times...

Peace!

In the works

Well i now have a working 64bit version, the open script dialog is half done and the logging feature i can't be bothered doing yet :P

To keep me interested in the project at the minute i have started working on the interface designer. I'm currently going through a few standard controls' properties making them look nice in the property grid. Once i have the Window object entirely finished I'll be starting to try and get the objects placed onto a form looking like they should! Once i have the controls looking okay before the beta release i want to get a few other features added that will actually make it about 90% complete (excluding the designer)

So expect a release some time next week or the following!

Peace.

Currently to do

After the preview there are a few bugs to fix before continuing with any other areas of the program.

TODO:
*Get the program working on x64 machines.
*Fix the open script box for Vista and windows 7 systems.
*Add logging/tracing method for the preview/beta versions to trace back some annoying bugs bugs.

Preview released

Exactly what it says on the tin.

See here

Small preview soon

Small preview to be released in a few days, but it will be without an interface designer (still waiting on a chat to patchou).

Added:
JScript code folding.
Recent files list.
Few bug fixes.

To do before release:
Add a simple help file.
Create interface logger.
Create installer.

See you in a few days, Jay.

Update

Everything has been done apart from saving of interface files and the actual individual controls for the dev environment. Next on the list is to sort out the controls but i am waiting on a reply from patchou and he hasn't replied in 3 days :(

Next update will come once i receive a reply!

Multi-lingual support added

Well i should have thought about this more at the start of the application, but since Messenger Plus has a very wide user base spanning multiple countries and many languages i thought i should add support for different languages to the designer.

Next on the list is Create/repackage script functions and then a much needed code tidy up. Hopefully shouldn't take more than a week, starting a new job this week so I'm not sure what my shifts are going to be like yet.

Current Progress

Well over the past few months i haven't done as much as i would of liked but the IDE has taken a few new steps. The main thing i have been looking at is Microsoft's new Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) which is (so far) perfect for the implementation of the designer i have planned. I have a few more things to touch up/fix and add to the main IDE then all work can start on the Interface Designer.

Back in business

Well for the last two weeks i have started from scratch on the MPL Developer environment. It was an easy decision as i hadn't touched it since the start of the summer and taking one look at my code basically thought "that's a mess, what the hell does that do". It's already looking a lot better than the original versions having a full script/xml editor built in, the only thing missing is, well...the interface designer. I thought it would be a good idea to get the entire application complete bar the interface designer so i don't get side tracked by other things that need done ;)

I'm not going to set targets after what happened last time :P so the next post will be once i start work on the designer :)

Effection.

Wooo

Well i had a major leap forward today with the code. It's been the first I've touched it in a long time. I recently updated to C# 2008 and was considering coding it in WPF but thought that it was too much hassle...Basically since everything being recoded most of my dynamic class stuff has been scraped :( but i will keep it as it may come in handy at some time in the future (and it was a nice piece of code :D).

At the minute I'm trying to generate a form from an interface file(back to the start almost eh!). This time round everything will be easy peasy only problems i think i may hit are dialogue templates and any other multilayer type control!

Off to bed now, shall see if i have more time tomorrow to maybe get a small (i mean small) preview ;)

Big step back...

Well i didn't have any time to write any code over the easter holidays (i couldn't be bothered more to the point). But i have started to recode the whole interface, and interface handlers from scratch to integrate some nice new features, I am already nearly finished the most of it and by the most of it i mean everything up to reading/writing/editing interfaces which shouldn't take to long to finish i hope, but i always say that :)

stroke of genious

After plenty of messing about with a few damn toolboxes that would never work i finally modded the old one, incorporating a new open source ListBox that allows me to use images in them :). After some more fiddling tonight/tomorrow night the toolbox shall be finished (hopefully)

A quick update

Not much done this weekend, i've been looking at how to create a better toolbox and managed to find an open source one, only problem is integrating it because it dosnt have some of the needed properties and it doesn't inherit an IToolBoxService unfortunately which is pretty much needed. The plans for this week are therefore try and modify the open source toolbox to inherit it without any problems etc, or create a small hack to get around it or find another/write my own toolbox which im not really in favour of ;)

back to work...

Window Objects Done!

Window objects and the creator are fully finished now, just have to take the time to move the code into the IDE and finish off a few last details before a beta (Y).

Almost there

Didn't have much time to code anything this weekend but i have almost finished the Window Objects now, the only things left are to distinguish between a Control and an Element object. Once that's done it'll take maybe a week (at max i hope) to put it all finally into the IDE :D

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!