Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Developmnet tools, debuggers, IDEs, etc

10: Re: Developmnet tools, debuggers, IDEs, etc (response to 9)

Posted by Bart Teeuwisse on 03/13/04 08:16 PM

I tried TclPro recently w/ AOLserver and it proved to be useless as AOLserver get's stuck after it closes the connection to the browser.

I've made a custom script available that generates tags for an OpenACS site. See http://www.thecodemill.biz/publications/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=10033 for details.

Andrei, what kind of context sensitive prompts are you refering too?

/Bart

11: Re: Developmnet tools, debuggers, IDEs, etc (response to 10)

Posted by Andrei Popov on 03/13/04 11:17 PM

Bart -- things that pop up when you type? Like, say typing up ad_fo... and getting suggested completion to ad_form? Or like opening a bracket after ad_page_contract { and getting prompted for possible blocks (documentaion, parameter declaration, etc.)?

I said it's not available -- and am not sure whether this really is needed/worth th etime and effort.

I sort of expected that TclPro would not help much, btw.

12: Re: Developmnet tools, debuggers, IDEs, etc (response to 11)

Posted by Bart Teeuwisse on 03/13/04 11:56 PM

Andrei,

you should definately give my Emacs OACS Minor Mode a try. (http://www.thecodemill.biz/services/oacs/). Emacs OACS automatically inserts headers for OpenACS files such as ad_page_contract, ad_library, .XQL and .ADP files.

In addition, EMACS OACS offers several abbreviations that expand to procedure definitions, debug messages and the like. Each of these (headers and abbreviations) will ask for input.

See the Emacs OACS changelog for documentation (http://www.thecodemill.biz/services/oacs/changelog/index?revision_id=10054). Emacs OACS is in beta and stable enough to be used. A hand full of developers are using it daily, but documentation is behind the development curve.

/Bart

14: Re: Developmnet tools, debuggers, IDEs, etc (response to 12)

Posted by Andrei Popov on 03/14/04 09:59 AM

Bart -- Sure, I've tried it out some time ago, but not in the past few weeks. Will take it for a further spin -- I've seen the changelog et al, but I'd like to really try it out :)

15: OACS-mode (response to 14)

Posted by Andrei Popov on 03/14/04 10:53 PM

Bart, this really does kick ass (pardon my French).

16: Re: Developmnet tools, debuggers, IDEs, etc (response to 12)

Posted by Claudio Pasolini on 03/20/04 01:20 PM

Hi Bart,

thank you for sharing your oacs-mode! It looks very useful for oacs developers.

I followed the installation instructions without problems until I tried adding sql mode to XQL files. After copying your code snippets into my .emacs file I get this error during emacs startup:
Symbol's value as variable is void: xml-mode
I don't know lisp and so I'm not able to debug it: perhaps you can help posting your .emacs file?

TIA, Claudio

17: Re: Developmnet tools, debuggers, IDEs, etc (response to 16)

Posted by Andrei Popov on 03/20/04 04:43 PM

You probably are missing psgml or have not set it up correctly. In the least you should have something along the lines of:

(add-to-list 'load-path "/full/path/to/psgml/dir")

(setq auto-mode-alist
(append
(list
'("\\.xql$" . xml-mode))

in your .emacs file

18: Re: Developmnet tools, debuggers, IDEs, etc (response to 16)

Posted by Bart Teeuwisse on 03/20/04 06:14 PM

Claudio,

as http://www.thecodemill.biz/services/oacs/ describes, Emacs OACS depends on the PSGML and MMM modules. Be sure to install them. Installation instructions are included each module. You'll find links to these modules from http://www.thecodemill.biz/services/oacs/.

/Bart

13: Re: Developmnet tools, debuggers, IDEs, etc (response to 11)

Posted by Steve Manning on 03/14/04 12:00 AM

Yes komodo can do this. You simply add the commands into the tcl-core.tip file and they appear as auto-complete options and argument prompts.

- Steve