laukee@canon.co.uk (David Lau-Kee) (05/29/90)
Does anyone know of an editor-browser for NeWS 2? I have Bruce Schwartz's lite browser with his fixes for OpenWindows, it is great, but really what's needed is something which will let the user develop code (incrementally) as well as just view it. I don't know about others, but I'm finding it a real pig to force the natural hierarchies and groupings of the NeWS class approach onto the linear top-to-bottom code layout of a text file... especially with TNT (there's just *sooo* much of it). After working with Smalltalk for 5 years maybe I'm a bit out of touch with how Real Programmers doIt, but I'll be damned if I'm going back to poring over a sweaty 15 page listing in order to get a feel for the code. I want to be able to modify and add code and have it picked up on the fly...this should be no problem for NeWS. Maybe someone wants to build an editor-browser? Taking Schwartz's as a good starting point would mean that the job wouldn't be *too* difficult. Anyone got a grad student looking for a project? How about 'support tools for NeWS'? Anybody at Sun want to pay me to do it in my spare time? Anyone want to talk to my boss and get him to let me do it in the company's time? Anybody doing it now and looking for alpha sites? ------------- David Lau-Kee Canon Research Centre Europe, 17/20 Frederick Sanger Rd, Surrey Research Park, Guildford, Surrey, GU25YD, UK. NRS: laukee@uk.co.canon, INET: laukee%canon@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk UUCP: laukee@canon.uucp, PATH: ..!mcsun!ukc!uos-ee!canon!laukee Tel: +44 (0) 483 574325 Fax: +44 (0) 483 574360