Blitz Toolbox/IDEs/BLIde
BLIde by ziggyhttp://www.blide.org |  |
About
About BLIde,BLIde is a powerful Integrated Development Environment for BlitzMax, inspired in the most famous 'Visual' IDEs.
There is a completly functional free version available to download in the BLIde official website. A comercial version is also available with some very interesting additional features (see versions comparison on the BLIde official website here)
Those are some of the BLIde features:
- Inteligent Module's keywords 'learning' engine.
- Code Folding and Regioning.
- Tabbed MDI Layout, fully customizable.
- Intelligent Code Indenting.
- Scope Completion.
- Application dependencies tree.
- Line Numbers.
- Gutter Margin and support for debug breaks
- Scope Matching.
- Export BlitzMax code to HTML or RTF, with folding intact.
- Massive Multi-Level undo and redo
- Powerful dockable user interface.
- Massive project options and configuration support.
- Integrated web Browser
- Associate external editors for media files, automaticaly
- Preview of graphic media files
- Preview and print your code
- Full integrated Debug Tracer
- Sync mods and Build mods, completly integrated
- Create ZIP files of your application folders automaticaly
- Full integrated Call Stack watcher
- Error reporter when a debuging application crashes
- Automatic Auto-capitalization of all the keywords
- Scope completion
- Task list per application
- Plug-in engine (currently in development)
- Inteligent AutoList generator, to help you while you're coding
- AutoList creator to define manualy any list of functions, or whatever you use regulary
- Colors and font for the editor is 100% customizable
- Print and Print preview of your code with the hilighting intact
- Quick help for all modules, functions and fields defined in your installed modules. this help is created when the IDE starts, reading the modules source code, so it's always up to date.
- Build as BLIde Plug In, let's you create additional features for BLIde
- Audio preview (this part is written in BlitzMax, and the source is included)
- Both Unicode and ANSII support in the BLIde console, editor and debugger.
- Copy / paste in RTF format, to export your highlighting to your favourite text editor
- Add Ons engine, let's you associate your favourite applications, external debugers or code analizers with BLIde
- Favourite editors system, let's you associate some extensions with your favourite editors, to let you edit images, audio or any other media associated to your application, from within BLIde.
- Customizable Sync mods engine, let's select the official mod servers, or any third party mod server (Axe, gman, etc....)
- Auto comment / uncomment blocks of code
- Automatic folding for functions, methods, loops, etc etc.
- Automatic update notifier. BLIde can check for updates at start-up.
- Virtual white spaces. This feature makes the cursor in the editor, remain in the same line of code when it reaches the end of the line. This feature makes the cursor act in the same way as QBasic, QuickBasic, GWBasic, TurboBasic and some other ancient Basic editors.
- Code Folding and Regioning.
- Tabbed MDI Layout, fully customizable.
- Intelligent Code Indenting.
- Scope Completion.
- Application dependencies tree.
- Line Numbers.
- Gutter Margin and support for debug breaks
- Scope Matching.
- Export BlitzMax code to HTML or RTF, with folding intact.
- Massive Multi-Level undo and redo
- Powerful dockable user interface.
- Massive project options and configuration support.
- Integrated web Browser
- Associate external editors for media files, automaticaly
- Preview of graphic media files
- Preview and print your code
- Full integrated Debug Tracer
- Sync mods and Build mods, completly integrated
- Create ZIP files of your application folders automaticaly
- Full integrated Call Stack watcher
- Error reporter when a debuging application crashes
- Automatic Auto-capitalization of all the keywords
- Scope completion
- Task list per application
- Plug-in engine (currently in development)
- Inteligent AutoList generator, to help you while you're coding
- AutoList creator to define manualy any list of functions, or whatever you use regulary
- Colors and font for the editor is 100% customizable
- Print and Print preview of your code with the hilighting intact
- Quick help for all modules, functions and fields defined in your installed modules. this help is created when the IDE starts, reading the modules source code, so it's always up to date.
- Build as BLIde Plug In, let's you create additional features for BLIde
- Audio preview (this part is written in BlitzMax, and the source is included)
- Both Unicode and ANSII support in the BLIde console, editor and debugger.
- Copy / paste in RTF format, to export your highlighting to your favourite text editor
- Add Ons engine, let's you associate your favourite applications, external debugers or code analizers with BLIde
- Favourite editors system, let's you associate some extensions with your favourite editors, to let you edit images, audio or any other media associated to your application, from within BLIde.
- Customizable Sync mods engine, let's select the official mod servers, or any third party mod server (Axe, gman, etc....)
- Auto comment / uncomment blocks of code
- Automatic folding for functions, methods, loops, etc etc.
- Automatic update notifier. BLIde can check for updates at start-up.
- Virtual white spaces. This feature makes the cursor in the editor, remain in the same line of code when it reaches the end of the line. This feature makes the cursor act in the same way as QBasic, QuickBasic, GWBasic, TurboBasic and some other ancient Basic editors.
There are two different BLIde verions, the free edition, completly functional, and the BLIde Plus edition, that has some pro additional features and utilities. For a comparison chart, take a look here: http://www.blide.org/?section=versions
Here you have some screenshots:
Using autoList to help you coding, you don't have to remember all the object oriented methods, functions, fields, etc:
you can preview your media files (images and audio) directly from within BLIde:
Building your modules has never been this easy with the advanced module builder
It has a very complete set of tools, such as the color selector
You can customize the colors and fonts used in your coding window
It also has a very powerful find and replace dialog
A complete framework inspector to check the state of your currently installed modules and their data structure and functionality
Full functional intelliprompt features that will help you while your coding.
A very powerful MDI and dockable window user interface
You can configure BLIde to use a ultra small layout, if you like minimalist IDEs:
Ultra configurable user experience with a simple preferences dialog.
Integration of the powerful BLIde Professional Publisher (BLIde Plus requiered)
And much more features! Check out the website.
If you're interested on BLIde, you may also take a look to this application: http://www.blitzmax.com/toolbox/toolbox.php?tool=196