[Wxdevide-devs] Designer Development

[M N. <mal...@gm...>]

Hi All (Tony?),

I am currently investigating the designer for wxDevIDE.

One point that I am unsure about is in fact the importing of wxform
information into the designer (getting ahead of myself here I know). One of
the problems is the icons for the menu (possibly anything with images). The
information is saved in the wxform file as a series of ascii strings. What
someone needs to do (looking at everyone else here) is to investigate some
sort of export function which will export the wxform information into a
format which we can then use for the new wxidefrm form.

What I suggest is that we create our own wxform format (which I have chosen
to call wxidefrm which is a reasonably faithful representation of the
current wxform format but with images contained within in some standard
easily used/identified format.

I have to do a lot of investigation wrt the designer, but I might be able to
make a start in getting something into an IDE.

What I intend to do as a first step is to make a start on the SDK for our
plugins (of which the designer is just one) as I develop the designer,
unless anyone has any ideas as to the SDK for the plugins (hopefully with
sample code - then PLEASE provide them).

However, I do get the impression that we have all left the project and are
just letting it die, is this so?

What I/we could do is develop the designer as a plugin for CodeLite and/or
Code::Blocks until we get our own IDE up and running, but if there is no
interest in developing wxDevIDE then I don't think that there is much point
to investigate implementing some sort of plugin architecture, and I should
just concentrate on developing the designer for some other IDE (CodeLite
and/or Code::Blocks) that already has a plugin architecture in place.

I suppose what I am really asking is "is wxDevIDE dead?", and if so what do
we as a group (if we are still a group) or I as an individual do now?

regards
Mal