The IDE that comes with AutoCAD gets the job done, but not without showing its age and
some glaring problems. For most of us VLIDE is used by default, even when better editors
exist, mainly because of the debugging capabilities VLIDE have.
So, assume you've built the best IDE ever, bar none, VS is a distant 2nd place runner up
compared to your IDE. There is just one problem, if it can't interactively debug lisp applications
NO ONE will ever use it. How would you go about implementing the debugging features?
I'm guessing there are just 2 methods that would work -
- Interface with the VL.arx API? It's not an open API so this would require some reverse engineering.
- Implement a full VLisp stack via your own interpreter?
I'm just brainstorming a bit and leaning towards the second item. Would really like to get the thoughts
of others on how they would approach the problem. FWIW, I have no IDE or written *any* code. However,
if someone has already started such a project and it is open sourced, I'd like to work on it.
The graphic is some thoughts I had today.
Thanks,
Paul