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Hi Paul
Just downloaded and had a play with the latest version. The new features are great, better than I was anticipating. Most of the time now I dont even need to bother adding a new watch as the new tooltip hover feature shows me what I need to know ! Thanks for fixing my number 1 omission ! I can always make suggestions for improvements though :) 1) When you add a watch value, its fine for simple variables, but if you add a table that has more than a few elements you cant see the later ones as the watch seems to be restricted to a single line with no word wrap. You can view it in the console window to see the later elements but of course that isnt a live update. Be nice to make the watch window text wrap. 2) Little problem I noticed with the unicode changes. I just happened to have a Lua script that looked OK in Scite, but when I opened it in ZBS it was completely blank. What this was due to was I had cut and pasted some text from a webpage into a Lua long comment. This comment had a couple of occurrences of 0x95 char inside it that caused the entire script to not display. I am guessing that 0x95 isnt a valid sequence for UTF8 but Scite handled it nicely and just displayed 95 in inverse video and the remaining text correctly. Its not a big deal as it only took me a minute or two to track down the offending characters, but if its an easy fix might be worth you looking at ? > The next (packaged) version is not planned earlier than the end of September. Apart from taking a rest :), I wonder what your next preferred area is for future enhancements ? From my point of view, it would be nice to enhance the way the custom API intellisense works. I wanted to be able to add text completion for my custom API functions and also a feature to show the parameter help for the custom functions. I know you mentioned a while back that you can already do that, but I couldnt figure out how to do it. So thinking out loud on options here a) Leave as is, but write a detailed Doc on how to do it b) Make it simpler more like Scite where its just a simple standalone text file that has the user customisations in it c) Maybe its possible to write a Lua script that takes the customisations from a simple text file and automatically write out whatever file changes are needed for your current system ? Regards Geoff > Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 17:09:38 -0700 > From: paulclinger@yahoo.com > To: lua-l@lists.lua.org > Subject: Re: [ANN] ZeroBrane Studio 0.32; now with unicode support, moai integration, and wxlua 2.8.12 upgrade > > Hi Geoff, > > > Excellent, thats good news, please post an update to the list then when the > > next version is available. > > The changes have been checked in, so you can start using them now if > you update src/ folder from the repository > (https://github.com/pkulchenko/ZeroBraneStudio/commits/master). I also > added highlighting values in the Watch window that changed since the > previous evaluation. The next (packaged) version is not planned > earlier than the end of September. > > > By the way, forgot to mention the new Unicode feature worked great on my > > quick test. I have a really nasty Lua source file that contains > > Low ASCII, STX, ETX etc, English, French, Greek and Chinese Lua string > > texts. This UTF-8 file loaded fine and everything displayed identically to > > when viewed in Scite. > > This is great; thank you for reporting. > > Paul. > > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Jeff Smith <spammealot1@live.co.uk> wrote: > > Hi Paul > > > > LUA_CPATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\Lua\5.1\clibs\?.dll > > Yep, that fixed the problem thanks ! Script runs fine now and uses the > > sqlite dll without an issue. > > > > > >> I'm working on this feature; it should be available in the repository > >> later this week. > > Excellent, thats good news, please post an update to the list then when the > > next version is available. > > > > By the way, forgot to mention the new Unicode feature worked great on my > > quick test. I have a really nasty Lua source file that contains > > Low ASCII, STX, ETX etc, English, French, Greek and Chinese Lua string > > texts. This UTF-8 file loaded fine and everything displayed identically to > > when viewed in Scite. > > > >> You mean "static code analyzer"? > > looks like I am half Brit & half Yank, as I managed to spell it both ways :) > > > > > > Regards Geoff > > > >> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 16:35:10 -0700 > >> From: paulclinger@yahoo.com > >> To: lua-l@lists.lua.org > >> Subject: Re: [ANN] ZeroBrane Studio 0.32; now with unicode support, moai > >> integration, and wxlua 2.8.12 upgrade > > > >> > >> Hi Geoff, > >> > >> Thank you for the feedback. It should work as you are describing, but > >> it may require a small tweak. ZBS puts its own libraries first to make > >> sure that wx.dll and other libraries it needs will not interfere if a > >> different version is present somewhere else in LUA_PATH/LUA_CPATH > >> folders. For all the applications that are started form ZBS it puts > >> its own libraries last, to minimize interference. > >> > >> > the problem with ZB Studio is caused by the line require("lsqlite3") > >> > > >> > Using Scite this loads lsqlite3.dll which on my PC lives in C:\Program > >> > Files (x86)\Lua\5.1\clibs\ (I have that dll in a few places but I think > >> > this > >> > is the one scite sees) > >> > >> If the list of folders you get in the error message doesn't include > >> the folder with lsqlite3.dll, then you should try this: > >> LUA_CPATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\Lua\5.1\clibs\?.dll (note LUA_CPATH > >> instead of LUA_PATH). > >> > >> Please include the full error message if you still have a problem with > >> this "require". > >> > >> > If you are wanting requests for next version features, any chance you > >> > could > >> > add the select variable name and right click context menu to open the > >> > watch > >> > window and add that var name to the list I am missing that feature > >> > badly. > >> > >> Yes. > >> > >> > I love the static code analyser, I am using it quite a lot. If I can be > >> > annoying and pedantic :) > >> >>> Analizing the source code: Should read >> Analyzing the source code: > >> > >> You mean "static code analyzer"? ;) Fixed. Thank you. > >> > >> Paul. > >> > >> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Jeff Smith <spammealot1@live.co.uk> wrote: > >> > Hello Paul > >> > > >> > Thanks for the new version of ZB Studio, I am keenly following the > >> > development of this excellent project so I have downloaded the new > >> > version > >> > and having a little play. > >> > > >> > I hit a problem which we might be able to figure out between us ? > >> > (Running > >> > Win 7 64 bit here) > >> > > >> > I have a lua script which works fine in Scite, and I dont remember even > >> > having to do any setting up of paths or anything to get it working (I > >> > installed the Lua Win batteries packages ages back) > >> > > >> > the problem with ZB Studio is caused by the line require("lsqlite3") > >> > > >> > Using Scite this loads lsqlite3.dll which on my PC lives in C:\Program > >> > Files (x86)\Lua\5.1\clibs\ (I have that dll in a few places but I think > >> > this > >> > is the one scite sees) > >> > > >> > I checked my environment vars that I have set > >> > LUA_DEV= C:\Program Files (x86)\Lua\5.1 > >> > LUA_PATH = C:\Program Files (x86)\Lua\5.1\lua\?.luac; > >> > > >> > I dont actually know without checking if those Win Environment variables > >> > are > >> > examined by the LUA main EXE or by Scite ? Someone will probably jump in > >> > here and tell me :) > >> > > >> > To try and fix the problem with ZBS I decided to add a new folder path > >> > to > >> > LUA_PATH > >> > > >> > LUA_PATH = C:\Program Files (x86)\Lua\5.1\lua\?.luac;C:\Program Files > >> > (x86)\Lua\5.1\clibs\?.dll > >> > > >> > Unfortunately the effect of this stops ZBS from even starting up, I get > >> > a > >> > dialogue box with the following message > >> > > >> > "Error loading module ''wx' from file C:\Program Files > >> > (x86)\Lua\5.1\clibs\wx.dll" etc etc > >> > > >> > If I remove the extra path I added it starts up OK once again. > >> > > >> > I did wonder about the spaces in the path so tried LUA_PATH = C:\Program > >> > Files (x86)\Lua\5.1\lua\?.luac;"C:\Program Files > >> > (x86)\Lua\5.1\clibs\?.dll" > >> > > >> > ZBS now opens up OK again, but my script cant find the dll and gives > >> > no file '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Lua\5.1\clibs\lsqlite3.dll"' as one of > >> > the > >> > output lines. > >> > > >> > This suggests to me that I was correct originally in changing the > >> > lua_path > >> > without the speechmarks, but as I say it breaks ZBS. > >> > > >> > Any ideas how to fix this please ? > >> > > >> > P.S > >> > If you are wanting requests for next version features, any chance you > >> > could > >> > add the select variable name and right click context menu to open the > >> > watch > >> > window and add that var name to the list I am missing that feature > >> > badly. > >> > Thanks if you can. > >> > > >> > P.P.S > >> > I love the static code analyser, I am using it quite a lot. If I can be > >> > annoying and pedantic :) > >> >>> Analizing the source code: Should read >> Analyzing the source code: > >> > > >> > Regards > >> > Geoff > >> > > >> > > >> >> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 18:47:18 -0700 > >> >> From: paulclinger@yahoo.com > >> >> To: lua-l@lists.lua.org; wxlua-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >> >> Subject: [ANN] ZeroBrane Studio 0.32; now with unicode support, moai > >> >> integration, and wxlua 2.8.12 upgrade > >> > > >> >> > >> >> (crossposting to wxlua-users as this is a wxlua-based application; > >> >> thanks to John Labenski for all the support and assistance with wxlua > >> >> upgrade.) > >> >> > >> >> ZeroBrane Studio is a lightweight Lua IDE with code completion, syntax > >> >> highlighting, live coding, remote debugger, code analyzer, and > >> >> hypertext/markdown formatting support for integrating learning > >> >> materials (examples and demos provided). > >> >> > >> >> Thanks to everyone who provided feedback and suggestions. Here is the > >> >> summary with the most important changes (full changelog: > >> >> > >> >> https://github.com/pkulchenko/ZeroBraneStudio/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md): > >> >> - Added Unicode support for file encoding and file paths on Windows > >> >> (fixes > >> >> #30). > >> >> - Added Moai integration and debugging (including debugging of Moai > >> >> threads and callbacks). > >> >> - Added refresh of Stack and Watch windows after executing a statement > >> >> in remote shell. > >> >> - Added display of complex values on multiple lines in shell with '='. > >> >> - Added calltip on mouseover for functions during editing and for > >> >> variables/expressions during debugging. > >> >> - Added configuration options to set paths to lua and love2d > >> >> executables. > >> >> - Added support for coroutine debugging with stepping through > >> >> coroutine.resume/.yield calls. > >> >> - Updated wx.dll to wxlua 2.8.12.2 and wxwidgets 2.8.12. > >> >> - Signed zbstudio app and executable to avoid issues with files not > >> >> being saved without admin privileges and to remove warning about > >> >> 'unknown publisher' on windows (fixes #25). > >> >> > >> >> There were several changes to improve running on Linux, but more > >> >> complete Linux support is still work in progress. > >> >> > >> >> I also posted a screencast that shows live coding with Löve: > >> >> http://notebook.kulchenko.com/zerobrane/live-coding-with-love; here is > >> >> a similar screencast with a demo running on OSX: > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> http://nikdudnik.com/post/30067678839/ive-spent-last-day-looking-for-a-suitable > >> >> (Nikita only saw mine after he published his screencast). > >> >> > >> >> The code and the packages (.dmg, .exe, and .zip) are available on > >> >> github: https://github.com/pkulchenko/ZeroBraneStudio/downloads. > >> >> > >> >> Paul. > >> >> > >> > |