Announcing Moonlite - the next generation mapping tool for Warcraft III/Starcraft II

[Lyerae]

A text editor needs to be able to load large files. These can be anywhere from a few kilobytes, to several megabytes. While this isn't that difficult, what Vestras has made is a Syntax Highlighter. This needs to be able to load large files, AND color them, AND run all the other little thing such as Code Completion.
This is why it needs to be high preformance. Because it's doing so much, even a little bit of inefficent code can cause the whole program to fail

 

[Slapshot136]

A text editor needs to be able to load large files. These can be anywhere from a few kilobytes, to several megabytes. While this isn't that difficult, what Vestras has made is a Syntax Highlighter. This needs to be able to load large files, AND color them, AND run all the other little thing such as Code Completion.
This is why it needs to be high preformance. Because it's doing so much, even a little bit of inefficent code can cause the whole program to fail

you still didn't say anything that eclipse doesn't already do without lag

inefficient coding can kill anything even in c#, but it's not like c++'s performance is THAT much compared to other languages, or like it matters much here

 

[Vestras]

Lyerae is right. Eclipse doesn't lag because it's doing a good job. Same as my text editor. Parsing and rendering takes a lot to make high performance, I had to rewrite all my rendering into Win32 GDI in order to increase the performance to an acceptable amount. (It increased the performance (which at that point already was somewhat good) by 500 times)

 

[Moogle]

When is this open beta coming out? Really really looking forward to this, especially since I got Andromeda bound to the editor with phynGal. Working on Notepad++ and the editors own syntax highlighter for code boxes is just plain sad.

 

[Vestras]

When is this open beta coming out? Really really looking forward to this, especially since I got Andromeda bound to the editor with phynGal. Working on Notepad++ and the editors own syntax highlighter for code boxes is just plain sad.

Unfortunately I am kind of relying on Gex, so I can't really tell exactly. He hasn't been online on Skype today, but he said he had a new release of Andromeda (one that fixes an issue in Moonlite) ready yesterday. Still awaiting that though.
When it has been released there's only a little bit of tweaking to do, then I can release the open beta.

 

[Lyerae]

What kind of tweaking, exactly?

 

[tooltiperror]

He will just need to tweak Moonlite to function with Andromeda, change stuff around. And possibly other things, but I don't think so.

 

[Moogle]

Woot, can't wait. Sound slike this weekend, from geX's previous updates.

 

[Vestras]

He will just need to tweak Moonlite to function with Andromeda, change stuff around. And possibly other things, but I don't think so.

Yeah, something like this. Make sure the error and object parser works, then set up the error list to work with the error parser.

 

[Lyerae]

Yes, although Linux won't be compatible with it.

Okay, I have to ask.
Exactly what part of Linux/Wine won't be compatible?

 

[Vestras]

Okay, I have to ask.
Exactly what part of Linux/Wine won't be compatible?

Well, I haven't exactly tried, but I'm pretty sure I use some 4.0 methods that mono doesn't support. You can try installing mono and Wine and try to use Moonlite.

 

[Lyerae]

Yeah, I'll definitely see if I can get it to work on Linux (at the very least, Ubuntu) once you've released the beta.

 

[tooltiperror]

You know, I don't see why it wouldn't work with WINE.

 

[Lyerae]

Basically, its all a matter of what classes/methods/members Wine has.
If Moonlite uses any of them that Wine doesn't have support yet, there will be bugs with the software.
If a method/class/member is important to the function of the software, but isn't supported, then the entire thing will not run, or crash right after opening.


HOWEVER.
Wine supports the majority of the .net framework. The only thing I think it doesn't is the more uncommon parts.
So, I'm thinking it should work, at least to some extent.

 

[tooltiperror]

But doesn't WINE replicate classes it doesn't have by reading the context? Or is that not good enough for all programs?

 

[Lyerae]

I don't see how it could.
(PS: Read edit.)

 

[Vestras]

Unfortunately it doesn't seem like Moonlite will be out this weekend. Gex is really ill so he can't work on Andromeda. He had the release almost done though, so it won't be long. Keep your hopes up!

 

[Lyerae]

Is he alright?

 

[Vestras]

Is he alright?

Yeah, it's just a heavy flu. He'll be fine

 

[GetTriggerUnit-]

Teasers!