+1 While I'm comfortable at the command line, I couldn't yet find an alternative for Far Manager on *nix systems. I need the two panel modes, integrated cmdline plus the very decent editor it has. This is the last important bit which ties me to the Windows platform on a daily basis. Maybe such portable GUI with Harbour integration could help this matter.
[ OFF: Finally I got to use Win9x VM to solve my MS-DOS platform needs (only for Harbour). ] Brgds, Viktor On 2009 Nov 15, at 14:47, Przemysław Czerpak wrote: > On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Massimo Belgrano wrote: > > Hi, > >> whem develop in harbour using xmate by andy wos i have a high productivity >> When compile my sample without xmate i start immediately because i not >> need create xhp for each project >> But when i compile and debug my source is difficult moving from error to >> editor >> With xmate i have a high productivity because >> syntax highlight made easy read >> itellisense give suggestion about my function and his parameter >> if made error when compile goto source/line of error >> i also use [x]harbour languages guide integrated with f1 >> So for me is easy the works >> How harbour can facilitate the integration of Xmate? > > In the past I suggested to create configuration for XMate which will > use hbmk2 to compile and link programs. > Now the set of hbmk2 options seems to reach some final form so it should > be easy to create it. I haven't tried but I think it should be possible > to make it quite fast. > >> Pritpal in past have a harbour distribution who integrate xmate so >> think that he can understand the importance of visual >> another candidate for integration is xdevstudio but is Spanish only afaik > > The 1-st and most important thing is portability. Such tool should work > with MS-Windows, MacOSX, Linux and other POSIX systems using X-Windows > and some portable GUI library like GTK or QT (or even sth older like motif, > xforms, ...). > XMate and xDevStudio work only in Windows what strongly reduce their usages. > XMate is mostly written as .prg code using some xHarbour extensions and > Windows API library created by Andrzej Woś. Maybe we can try to contact > with Andrzej and ask him about multiplatform version of xMate or free > release at least of part of xMate code which is platform independent so > we can try to adopt it to HBQT or other portable GUI library for Harbour. > Maybe even someone asked about it? BTW Who of us last time contact with > Andrzej? Looking at my mail archive I see that I received last message > from him on 26 Jul 2007. > Andrzej if you are reading please answer or send a message to my private > e-mail address. > >> Other option used for visual path >> in which way other harbour user find productivity in compile-edit-debug >> cycle. > > Each of us has own preferences so even if you like some tools then it does > not have to be usable for other users. But I agree that multiplatform version > of xMate can be great extension for Harbour community. > > best regards, > Przemek > _______________________________________________ > Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) > Harbour@harbour-project.org > http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
