On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Jonathan Irvin <djfoxys...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I do often hear complaints and wishes for new build tools, what about us > LSL devs? Some things I would like are: > > 1. Better IDE in SL Viewer > 2. API for compiling in LSL using various IDEs already available > 3. Going along with #1, as suggested, integrating Eclipse or equivalent > in SL. > 4. LSL Wiki built into the editor > 5. Detachable script editing window (To develop on one monitor & test > in the other) > 6. Entity relationship diagram system in SL viewer for visual coding. > > I'm not sure that spending whole lot of time adding fancy features to the built in LSL editor is that productive (we aren't trying to build an IDE, and there are a ton of really good extensible IDEs out there already), but I really like your idea of putting together an API. Someone could hack a service into the viewer that lets another process (like Eclipse or Monodevelop) perform limited operations on the inventory of the currently selected object. We already have D-Bus <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus> integration in the GNU/Linux Viewer for SLurl support, so it shouldn't be too hard to expose something like an ObjectEditorProxy. It could allow an extension for your favorite IDE to enumerate the scripts that are editable in the currently selected object's inventory, fetch their contents, compile(), and add new scripts to the object's inventory. The IDE could also subscribe to events emitted by the viewer, such as ScriptAdded, ScriptDeleted, etc. What might improve the situation quite a bit is if the server supported a capability that allowed the viewer to fetch all symbols exported by the simulator (all LSL functions and constants). That metadata could then be exposed to the IDE through the ObjectEditorProxy for intellisense support. In the long run I don't know if this is a good solution, but it would certainly be an interesting experiment! -Ambroff
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