External IDE (Sublime Text Editor or another)

[Hark0]

Hi!


About http://www.sublimetext.com/ or another code editor's are avaliable for use with GLB?


On positive reply... how configure/parameters?

TIA, Hark0

[Moru]

There was a few threads about that but can't seem to find them at the moment.

In general there is nothing stopping you just opening the gbas files in whatever editor you want, saving and switching to GLBasic to compile. However there was some problem involving GLBasic not using the changes to the files. Maybe that is fixed now? I haven't really tried it at all. I would love to learn to use the Sublime text editor. I have it installed at work but since I never have time to learn it, I can't use it effectively... and so I can't use it :-)

[Slydog]

I just checked out Sublime, and I like it.
I love the 'minimap' feature on the side!
GLBasic syntax colouring would be nice.
And, it does have a 'Build' feature, so configuring it with GLBasic's compiler would be awesome, if possible!

The bug with the compiler not picking up changed files seems to be working better lately. 
It was only checking the first 10 files or so in your project, but I'm not 100% sure if Gernot fixed that yet.

It would be nice to have a guide on how to configure other text editors to edit and compile GLBasic projects.
Include topics such as a KEYWORDS list, compiler location and parameters, etc.
Eventually we could have configurations available for the most popular editors.
(If it's even possible, that is!)

[MrTAToad]

The problem with other IDEs  is that it would need to be able to handle XML project files and the batch file for compiling stuff...

[Slydog]

Dang, you're right!  Forgot about multiple project source files, plus all the other project settings!

At some point, does GLBasic IDE convert the project file into a 'make' file?
Maybe a button in GLBasic to build the make file for us would help?
We should only have to update this file when we change the project.

First 'build' converts the GLBasic code into C, then compiles the C into an executable?
I really have no idea how all this works behind the scene, so no point in me speculating.

[Hark0]

There was a few threads about that but can't seem to find them at the moment.

Yes yes... I know ;-)

In general there is nothing stopping you just opening the gbas files in whatever editor you want, saving and switching to GLBasic to compile. However there was some problem involving GLBasic not using the changes to the files. Maybe that is fixed now? I haven't really tried it at all. I would love to learn to use the Sublime text editor. I have it installed at work but since I never have time to learn it, I can't use it effectively... and so I can't use it :-)

Yes, any text editor are avaliable for write gbas files... but, (and sorry me for GLB IDE developer) comparing features about our IDE vs othe IDE's... no color.

Like you I very interest in use Sublime with GLB.

;-)

[Hark0]

I just checked out Sublime, and I like it.
I love the 'minimap' feature on the side!
GLBasic syntax colouring would be nice.
And, it does have a 'Build' feature, so configuring it with GLBasic's compiler would be awesome, if possible!

The bug with the compiler not picking up changed files seems to be working better lately. 
It was only checking the first 10 files or so in your project, but I'm not 100% sure if Gernot fixed that yet.

It would be nice to have a guide on how to configure other text editors to edit and compile GLBasic projects.
Include topics such as a KEYWORDS list, compiler location and parameters, etc.
Eventually we could have configurations available for the most popular editors.
(If it's even possible, that is!)

+1

[Hark0]

The problem with other IDEs  is that it would need to be able to handle XML project files and the batch file for compiling stuff...

hmmmm "batch file" hmmmmm

[Hark0]

Dang, you're right!  Forgot about multiple project source files, plus all the other project settings!

At some point, does GLBasic IDE convert the project file into a 'make' file?
Maybe a button in GLBasic to build the make file for us would help?
We should only have to update this file when we change the project.

First 'build' converts the GLBasic code into C, then compiles the C into an executable?
I really have no idea how all this works behind the scene, so no point in me speculating.

... maybe the second build are "standard" makefile depending of platform exe?

[bigsofty]

I suggested this as a way to get the GLB to handle all the nitty-gritty stuff of using an external IDE... http://www.glbasic.com/forum/index.php?topic=6429.0

[Hark0]

I suggested this as a way to get the GLB to handle all the nitty-gritty stuff of using an external IDE... http://www.glbasic.com/forum/index.php?topic=6429.0

Thanks for this link!!!

[Hark0]

Following the link posted by bigsofty Kitty Hello says:

I think it would have to be a console program like "glbasic.exe" that can do:
glbasic.exe /PLAT=WIN32 /DEBUG "path to gbap file"

Any plan for this in near future?

[MrTAToad]

Should be easy enough for Gernot

[Hark0]

Gernot listen please!

[Kitty Hello]

that's a pretty nice idea. There's a project that can read the glbasic gbap xml files, already. So I think we should write an GLBasic project that can do this.