I am using Corona to develop ios app.
I use XCode as IDE.
But I found that XCode does not support Lua syntax sensitive reminder as it does in Objective-c.
Is there an Mac IDE can integrate Corona keyword dictionary and highlight to help and accelerate coding?
And if it can support project files navigation will be better!
Welcome any comment
TextAdept might also be interesting, since it's super-extensible, and already has an LPEG lexer for Lua, which could easily be adjusted for supporting Corona. And everything is scripted in Lua, so no extra language to learn ;)
You may try ZeroBrane Studio Lua IDE. I've recently added Love2d and Moai auto-complete (there are several demos on the website) and it should be possible to add Corona API too, but I can't find a good description or documentation for the API calls.
The APIs I've implemented provide not only function names, but also a description, arguments, and return parameters (this is a snippet from one of Moai functions):
addChild = {
type = "function",
description = "Attaches a child action for updating.",
args = '(self: MOAIAction, child: MOAIAction)',
returns = '(self: MOAIAction)',
},
If there is a description like this for Corona SDK, I should be able to incorporate it into the IDE.
This might be interesting. Its provided by the community and not very stable, but, its worth a shot.
This shows a eclipse walkthrough.
The Lua plugin in IntelliJ has support for the Corona API (full disclosure I am the author)
https://bitbucket.org/sylvanaar2/lua-for-idea/wiki/Home
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I'm getting into Unity, and wondering if I can use F# instead of C#, simply because I prefer the syntax. I'm guessing not, since the environment it runs on is very different, but maybe there's something that will cross-compile code or something else I'm not thinking of.
I can't help but get the impression that the other answers were written by people who do not really know what they are talking about.
This is what you need to do to use F# in a Unity project:
Create an F# project that compiles into a dll. Have it build into the assets folder of a Unity project.
Add references to UnityEngine.dll and/or UnityEditor.dll. Change the reference properties so the dlls aren't copied to the build folder.
Of course you can't create new F# classes from within the Unity editor this way, but you can assign the ones you wrote in F#.
Currently you need to enable the (experimental) support for .NET-version 4.5. Alternatively you can download an older version of the FSharp.Core.dll that supports .NET 3.5. (see here).
I can't guarantee that you won't run into trouble because of compatibility issues with the FSharp.Core.dll, but that's just a guess since I haven't tested it myself.
I had success doing this sometime back by following this Github project: https://github.com/eriksvedang/FSharp-Unity, which I believe is roughly the same as Lars Kokemohr's answer above. I haven't tested it in more recent versions of Unity/Mono however.
Yes you can use F# as first class language as C# in unity.
Here is an article about it link
an excellent blog for One who want to use F# in unity
if you want to use F# as second class which I recommend.
let me show how to do it.
Usually what I do is to create Game Domain in F# in .net standard
2.0 library project build it.
Make unity API Compatibility level .net standard 2.0 then
Import library project dll in asset/plugins in Unity
Here is an explanation on how to do it automatically after each build : link
You will get this error, here is the solution
Having said that I recommend not to do any serious work in unity with F# because you won't be able to cross compile to other platforms.
Unity uses IL2cpp and it don't work with F#.
In simple words unity don't support F# and if you are having issues like bugs in Il2cpp unity will not fix it because they don't support F#
There is no easy way to do this but if you REALLY want to make it happen I believe you could use something like fs2cs:
https://github.com/hsharpsoftware/fs2cs
In theory you could write a script that calls fs2cs on all of your Unity C# files. Integrating this with Unity itself would be the more challenging part, but in theory you can trigger fs2cs transpilation on save of your file and Unity can use the transpiled C# file.
Only Boo, C#, and UnityScript are officially supported!
I am trying to write a CodeRush plugin that works similar to the XML Doc Comment Painter.
My plugin, which uses a TileVisual adornment, works fine for decorating comments in C# files, but does not work for comments in F# files.
How can I specify that my plugin should be enabled for F# files?
Have you checked this thread? One of the guys there suggests that
CodeRush is working in F# editor. At least some code assistance and
code templates. But code templates are not defined yet (you have to
create your own).
If you need help with your own plugin, I think you should better contact Devexpress support.
F# language is not supported at the moment, unfortunately. So, you can not enable the plug-in for this language.
I want to be able to browse through the source code of an iPhone application in windows. I do not want to compile and run the code, just need to have some kind of tool that understands the Objective-C code and iPhone application source structure. Something that view the source code as a whole (project-based) and ideally can link different classes and methods. Something more than just a plain editor with code styling and something less than a full feature IDE. Do you suggest any tools?
Most editors will support Objective-C syntax highlighting. Personally I use VIM or NotePad++. I would recommend NotePad++ for ease of use. But as far as I know there is no 'IDE' for Objective-C for Windows.
I use jEdit if I need to see the source code in Windows. Pretty much handles all the structure and syntax highlighting of objective C.
EDIT: Its an editor. Not a IDE. But with your needs of just viewing code, I guess it must suffice.
If you want a bit more than just syntax highlighting, GNUStep has an IDE called PRoject Center. GNUStep can run on Windows, so allegedly Project Center will too.
Emacs has good syntax and indentation support for Objective-C, for example it can indent the method calls the way Xcode does (based on ':') and there's a Windows version of it available here.
Though it's not an IDE, most of the time I use it for Obj-C/GNUstep without much problems.
If you use something like ctags to tag your source code you could use any editor with support for ctags.
It looks like ctags does not support Objective-C directly, but it is fairly easy to add a new language configuration to ctags.
I wish to write my own Python IDE (just for the heck of it). I was wondering if I could use Eclipse as a foundation. This will save me from coding a whole lotta things (code editor, intellisense and so on).
To understand what I mean, please take a look at Visual Studio Isolated Shell. I'm essentially looking for something equivalent. Searching on Google hasn't helped. Is there anything like this available in Eclipse's case?
Yes. Eclipse is designed to have additional languages added and there is extensive support for this kind of plugin development. I'm surprised Googling didn't help - there's an entire site dedicated to a tutorial on the basics and a toolkit for developing such things
I'm looking for some static library or open source project (in obj-c, released under some permissive license) to parse CSS in iPhone. Any recommendations?
OK, I found good library for parsing CSS - libCSS from the NetSurf web browser project. Released under MIT license, can be used without problems for commercial iPhone applications distributed via the AppStore.
It requires some code for the programmer to write (e.g. you need to provide your own DOM hierarchy handlers), and there are no examples available... but people from the NetSurf dev mailing lists are very helpful. In case of problems you can search the list for my questions.
libCSS
NetSurf dev mailing list
I would recommend htmlcxx. It's pretty actively maintained, written in C++ and you can use it to parse HTML and CSS.
Of course, since it's written in C++, you can use it in your iPhone application with no problems at all.
I've taken this project and made it easy to add to your iOS or OSX projects. Clone my github project and add the html (and or css) folder to your project. There is an Xcode project too - so you can build and run the simple test provided by the original authors