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sriram
sriram

Reputation: 9022

IDE in Groovy, Is that Possible?

I thought of creating simple IDE with the help of Groovy language, and i know that with the help of Swingbuilder i can design or put the layout of my IDE. Are there are other lib available in Groovy/In java for syntax checking for a specific language like that which will help in building the IDE?

My question is that possible to build an IDE with the help of groovy?(My IDE is simple, like just syntax checking, error highlighting, thats it)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 216

Answers (2)

Bill K
Bill K

Reputation: 62759

The syntax checking is one of the more difficult parts of building something like an IDE. If you want to make a tool, I suggest concentrating on the editor and not worry about the syntax checking.

You could attempt to run Groovy code through the groovy compiler and report the message that comes out, but when you are typing most code won't even compile so the error will generally be some kind of "Syntax error".

If you really want to do it you should review some stuff on building compilers because that's essentially what you will be doing.

Upvotes: 1

mjspier
mjspier

Reputation: 6526

actually you can use every java library in groovy, like awt or swing. Or you could even use the rich client platform from eclipse, Equinox.

As you already know there are some helpers in groovy like the Swingbuilder. More about GUI's in Groovy you can find here: http://groovy.codehaus.org/GUI+Programming+with+Groovy

I would recommend to use one of these if you don't want to get too complex

Upvotes: 0

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