[Coco] IDE development

[Roger Taylor]

At 04:58 PM 1/21/2006, you wrote:
>Your project sound great Roger. I look forward to trying it out.
>
>Alan
>
>Roger Taylor wrote:
>
>>The Rainbow IDE is coming along well and should be ready for an initial 
>>release within a week or two.  My current work is in the area of 
>>assembler recognition and configuration, and I am also trying to engineer 
>>the software so that I (or you) can add compilers and other source code 
>>processors with minimal effort.  Such compilers could easily be C, 
>>Pascal, Fortran, etc. which means I cannot limit the structure of the 
>>software to just handling assembly builds.  Instead, project files call 
>>on their "Source Code Processor" to do what needs to be done to produce 
>>the output object.


Thanks, Alan.  It's sure to be a hit with the assembly community.  When you 
select the M.E.S.S. system you want to send your software into to emulate, 
a nice picture of that system appears in the lower left panel.  I'm working 
hard to round up avatar-sized images of all the systems, but it's not one 
of the priorities in getting the software useable.  I just want to have a 
collection of most of the popular systems so you get that extra feel of 
being in control of that particular computer while you're programming.

The best part about Portal-9 and Rainbow is that they are pretty easy to 
use and I won't try to overwhelm the user.  I want to put the power there 
but do most of the work by assuming common things that most developers 
might be doing.





-- 
Roger Taylor