Posted: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:39:12 +0000
From: Ingemar Ragnemalm member since Aug 17 2009, has contibuted 10 messages.

Speaking of icon, the current logo/icon is on the home page, the Mac riding the FPC Cheetah.

Posted: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:01:53 +0000
From: Ingemar Ragnemalm member since Aug 17 2009, has contibuted 10 messages.

You are quite right that the syntax coloring is a bit special. It is a compromise due to the slowness of MLTE and the not very good OSX performance of the Pismo I started on. Later versions highlight on CR or by timer.

I will replace MLTE with a better text engine, and then I might be able to revise the syntax coloring to get more immediate.

Posted: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:43:20 +0000
From: Ozz Nixon member since Jun 12 2009, has contibuted 79 messages.

Firstly, thanks for the Kudos on the site - I have a lot more effort to put into the site to achieve the goal... but it is appreciated when someone takes minute to actually look around, and give feedback.

So, I downloaded the product (you wrote) to review it, and like it. I started finding some common IDE bugs.

Take an existing piece of code, through a { } around something, the high lighter is all wrong. You must Cmd-S (save) to get the highlighter to re-render the colors correctly. Which also pointed out another high lighter problem, the first character after the right brace is the wrong color (unless I put a space after the right brace).

Example:
A:=CallRoutine1(1,3);

Changed to:
A:={CallRoutine1}CallRoutine2(1,3);

And it renders incorrectly during that process. Now yes, this is a "lightweight" editor, and yes, it is only a coloring flaw. However, I develop exclusively on a Mac Book Pro 17 now, and well... I like BBEdit the most so far. Until I finish DXGUI or someone else beats me to writing a useful editor. (FYI: Mac Book does not have PgDn/PgUp - BBEdit has Option-Up_Arrow and Option-Dn_Arrow automatically mapped to PgDn/PgUp).

I did notice your point about the support for the Carbon framework is preconfigured and that was extremely nice. However, I primarily focus on coding not GUI junk - and found the blinking cursor a real annoyance (using Borland Delphi 7 color codes) [paints black under the blink and arrowing around real fast leaves trailing black spots for a couple milliseconds.

I just downloaded the C source from sourceforge - I will skim around and see (a) how does it all work, (b) can I port it to native FPC, and (c) fix some of these issues (and send them to you too). (Who knows, this may help me jump start my cross-platform IDE project from 2007 again).

Again,
Thanks, and best of luck with your Editor!
Do you have a ICON I can put on the right side of my web site???

Posted: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:42:28 +0000
From: Ingemar Ragnemalm member since Aug 17 2009, has contibuted 10 messages.

Congratulations on getting Friends of FPC up again! I found the old page useful, and have based my recent OpenAL package partially on code found there.

I would suggest that you consider adding Lightweight IDE to the Mac OSX tools (http://www.ragnemalm.se/lightweight/). It is a free IDE with an intentionally minimalistic GUI but quite a few tricks under the hood, made to help you focus on the code instead of a complex tool, while providing all the help that you really need, "Lightweight on your mind".

At its download page, there are also quite a few OSX and a few OpenGL demos for FPC.