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Naja IDE

Postby Charles » Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:35 am

I thought I would kick off a new discussion thread with the proper subject.

For reference: http://cobraide.codeplex.com/

First, thanks for starting this! Next, here is some constructive feedback followed by some questions:

After "hg clone", I didn't see a build.bat or build.cmd. I recommend adding one.

I would like an option to preserve tabs instead of replacing them with 4 spaces.

If I open my "test.cobra" and run it, it works fine, except that the I/O window collapses and hides the output.

Maybe "Process Exited" in I/O could give the exit code.

When I tried Solution > Save As, it took the filename I first gave it, but then it immediately brought up another Save As dialog. When I clicked Cancel, it complained about an empty path.

In File > Open, there is no choice for "All files (*.*)" or similar.

In the source code, instead of:
fileArgs = String.join(" ", curProj.files.toArray) to !
# you can write:
fileArgs = curProj.files.join(' ')

It's shorter and more object-oriented.

Questions:

Qios looks interesting. I hadn't heard of it before. What's the story behind it? I didn't find much on their site about their history or where it came from.

At http://codeplex.codeplex.com/license the license is listed as "Custom License". Is there a reason one of the standard ones was not sufficient? What do you think of using BSD or MIT?


Thanks.
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Re: Naja IDE

Postby Charles » Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:39 am

I forgot to include my platform for reference:

Windows 7 32-bit, latest Naja source, latest Cobra source
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Re: Naja IDE

Postby torial » Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:16 pm

Hi Charles,

I'll try to respond more later this week, as well as open some defects on the CobraIDE project for what you've encountered.

Regarding the IO window shutting, if you have the latest code, is there an error log that is generated in the same directory as Naja?

Regarding the license, when I created the project, I selected MIT, and then it had me fill some fields in -- so I'll see if I can get that corrected, as I certainly wish to have it under MIT.

Sean
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Re: Naja IDE

Postby torial » Tue Apr 05, 2011 7:32 pm

Hi Charles,

Please check out the license link, and let me know if it looks ok to you. I'm seeing MIT, but it could be because I'm a project owner: http://cobraide.codeplex.com/license

Regarding QIOS - at my job we've had Infragistics and also QIOS, and I recently started using it for work. Given that it was free (as in beer, not speech), I figured it would add a certain level of polish to the IDE. I'm guessing they used to be a commercial UI toolkit, and decided to go free and make money from consulting (but that is just pure guess). They recently updated the minimum .Net version from 1.1 to 2.0, which was nice.

One other thing -- they have a composite control, which is very nice and flexible, but don't try to do anything grid-like (ie with above 50 cells) as the it really drags -- it was made to allow for flexible menu navigation, not for custom building data grids.

Sean
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Re: Naja IDE

Postby Charles » Wed Apr 06, 2011 7:18 am

Regarding the IO window shutting, there is no error log. It didn't seem to choke on an exception--it just autohides.

The license now looks normal to me (says "MIT", says your name).

Another thought--the extension "cobrasln" should be "najasln".

Thanks for listening.
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Re: Naja IDE

Postby torial » Wed Apr 06, 2011 7:52 am

Charles wrote:Another thought--the extension "cobrasln" should be "najasln".


I like that... when I get a chance to work on it again (work has been hectic the last two weeks - Mon-Tues I worked 30 hrs), I will switch both "cobrasln" and "cobraproj" to have "naja" as the prefix instead of "cobra".
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