Re: ANN Tloona 1.3.0 released

vitick@xxxxxxxxx schrieb:

I am up to my ears in my own projects. :)

Me too, that's why the progress is so slow :).

I am wondering what you have planned to accomplish with this
application? So far it seems to be repeating something that has
already been done by others.

So far I have not found any IDE that supports Tcl, Itcl and XOTcl at the same time /and/ runs as smoothly and platform independent like Tloona.

Tloona does this, and also provides the building blocks to create your own GUI apps through the tmw ("tile megawidget") library which is part of it.
For Tloona 2, I am planning a "plugin" system, that let's you extend Tloona with your own functionality at runtime, plus a basic platform that can be used to get your own, extensible GUI applications up and running in minutes. This is pretty much what Eclipse does for Java, Tloona is supposed to do it for Tcl and Tk.

Many people here have said that it just repeats something that is already there. I don't care. There is no IDE like Tloona, as far as I know - the closest one is Eclipse DLTK, which starts to become a good editor for XOTcl, but not for Itcl. Also one must get used to the way how classes and packages are organized in listboxes (like in XotclIDE), which is not the way I like it. DLTK is not a /platform/ for your own applications either, as Tloona is (or will be).

Many people will probably say that for Tk, they don't need such a thing like Eclipse... for one or the other reason. I don't care. I love it (although I just use it sometimes in my spare time at the moment), and I think that others - especially Tcl newcomers - would love it too. It's great for getting things done. And it has been a great help for me already in work related projects.


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Eckhard


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