Moved to Flex/Actionscript

Why it was never mentioned that dojo toolkit is reimplementation of Flex framework? It would probably saved me many months of poking in dark corners of Javascript with mediocre results.

Today, one month after the 'discovery' my X Erlang IDE has a syntax highlighting editor, a build system, a process viewer, an Erlang console, etc running in Flash Player:



What I am still missing sorely is function call completion. The exact positioning of a small floating window near the cursor is nearly impossible to implement reliably in Javascript. Flex/Actionscript does this and many other things elegantly, is identical in all browsers and is present in 90% of computers around the globe.

I have to mention that it is not possible to process right mouse button click with Flex/Actionscript. There is always, they say, something.

Web-based IDE for X Erlang

In one of my previous posts I described a console application that allows the user to interact with X Erlang instance. As the logical next step I wanted to make it more a 'Visual Studio' than a 'DOS prompt'.

After two months of petty bickering I finally settled to use dojo for portability among browsers and ready-to-go widget goodies. Currently, the application allows management of the in-memory filesystem, editing of Erlang code using CodeMirror control and compilation of the code. It even jumps to the correct line in the source 

code when the error message is clicked in the compiler output pane!

The progress is stalled by the capabilities of the X Erlang itself. Now it is not possible to 'pause' a process to observe its internals.

The current version looks like this: