New Open Turing Editor *Alpha* - Autocompletion, tabs, regex search and more

[trishume]

For a while now I have been working on a new editor for Open Turing.

It has many new features like:

• autocomplete
  
• code folding
  
• tabs
  
• regular expression find and replace
  
• optional dark theme
  

Unfortunately there has been limited human/unit testing so there are many undiscovered bugs. There are also many known bugs that are still being fixed.
Many of the bugs are a result of the hackish way it runs code. It calls the old editor to compile the code and then has a special runner execute it.


It is not ready for use by everyone. But it is functional enough that I, and a number of my friends, use it regularly.

If you want to try it you can download it here: https://github.com/downloads/Open-Turing-Project/turing-editor-qt/OpenTuring.zip

To run it open NewEditor\OpenTuring.exe in the package.

Please post bugs in this topic or on github issues. There will be lots.

[Insectoid]

Impressive!

[Alex C.]

i love you :3
just kiddimng!!!
still, thats nice!

[Alex C.]

you know what would be really useful though?
"SPELL CHECK"... every time i type Input.Keydown instead of Input.KeyDown i die a littles inside... T_T

[SNIPERDUDE]

An IDE!

[mirhagk]

Math.Distance does not highlight correctly (Math does however). It also has Distance pop up twice in the autocomplete. Also a feature I'd suggest is a little pop up box saying parameters and other information for a function. (like VS with ///<summary>)

[trishume]

mirhagk @ Sun Jan 22, 2012 6:48 pm wrote:

Math.Distance does not highlight correctly (Math does however). It also has Distance pop up twice in the autocomplete. Also a feature I'd suggest is a little pop up box saying parameters and other information for a function. (like VS with ///<summary>)

None of the built-in functions highlight. I haven't migrated the 1000+ line keyword list from the old editor yet. I will fix the distance thing, thanks. And I used to have the popups but they mysteriously stopped working and I'm still working on why. But I agree they are really useful.

[ihsh]

Wow, these new features are great (especially the tabs and the code-folding)! You must have spent a lot of time developing the program! :O

But somehow, when I click "run," my output screen will never open (even though I get the message" compile suceeded, running..."). Does this has anything to do with the fact that my computer finds "turingexeprolog.exe" suspicious and removes it?

Also, for the auto-complete, is there any way to make it so that you can select the option you want with your mouse?

[mirhagk]

@trishume yeah that popup thing is probably the biggest reason I use an IDE (I can learn new library functions without having to read through giant documentation manuals)

[copthesaint]

If your making this, and seriously spending the time to make this IDE, I just wanna suggest one thing, the most usefull thing for any IDE, At t he right top corner make it show links to procedures and functions

for example, if this was your program

Turing:

procedure x (s : string) put s end x procedure y (var x : string) x := "hello world" end y function i (pie : boolean) : string if pie then result "You have pie!" end if result "you dont have pie! :(" end i

Then your IDE would display at the top right corner

code:

proc x (s : string) proc y (var x : string) function i (pie : boolean) : string

and when you click on proc x for example it would focus your screen to it. It would make everyones live 100% easier because I always, ALWAYS check my procedures to see what I set my parameters to :S lol Then too, if you improve debuging (turing is generally easy to debug but) if you improve debuging you can make for example a red x appear beside the procedure that is causing the problem.

[trishume]

Yes, turingexeprolog.exe is essential.

Nitty gritty:
turing.exe is passed the flags "-compile file.t"
this compiles it into a .tbc (turing byte code) file
turingexeprolog.exe is passed -file file.tbc which runs the program.

And @copthesaint the "mark" menu does that, just not as well. It's crappiness is on the bugs list.

[evildaddy911]

did you take out the "replace" button?, also, in the autocomplete, could you have it put the parameters beside the name? i HATE having to check which parameters go where.
@Alex C: for the spell check thing, just have it hightlight any variables/procs/fcns that turing cant find

EDIT: just found the replace button, under find, never mind!

[ProgrammingFun]

This is awesome! Sidenote: How many people would want a Ribbon UI on this?

[SNIPERDUDE]

ProgrammingFun @ January 23rd 2012, 9:02 pm wrote:

This is awesome! Sidenote: How many people would want a Ribbon UI on this?

The idea of a ribbon UI has potential, it really comes down to how well it's implemented/designed.
I may take part in this, the graphics would be easy enough for me to do.
Programming being more of a hobby, if someone else designs the interface I could take care of visual appeal.

[ProgrammingFun]

I'm gonna try to implement a web editor for turing in my free time