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