Rendezvous Result & Recapitulation
posted by Martin Cohen in Development 
December 4th, 2006
The work is done. Parser and editor are very good friends now. The performance is awesome, even with our 3.4 MB HTML testing file. Only few things are waiting for us to finish and publish this alpha milestone. Let’s do some recapitulation of what this alpha will be capable of…
- Parser (done)
- Scopes and scope-selectors (done)
- Unicode support, including UTF-8 without BOM (done)
- Syntax-highlighting (99% done)
- Editor with basic functionality (90% done)
- Basic file operations (90% done)
- Snippets (current issue)
The snippets are what I will focus on now. The algorithm has been done in first prototype, but some changes and merging is needed due to new core and lack of scripting support (which will be available in second milestone).
Since September, Intype has been completely rewritten from scratch:
- User interface part is done with SmartWin++ framework, other components are platform independent.
- New editing component. First prototype shown in the first screencast was using Scintilla editing component.
- New Core with multi-threading support and separated “plug-in” file system layer.
- New configuration file format.
- Parser is also rewritten with the core focusing on speed and low memory requirements.
- UI tunning for user input and consistent general behavior of widgets.
This week we will publish a screencast on how the code highlighting and theming works. We actually began in-house testing with 6 testers, the work has been done well and only minor bugs were detected. Stay tuned for the screencast and new updates.
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1. Jack Sleight
04.12.2006 at 2:15 pm
Fantastic, I can’t wait.
2. mat
04.12.2006 at 2:22 pm
Oh, it’s fabulous.
3. DarkRaver
04.12.2006 at 2:58 pm
Great !!!
Let me know if you want another beta tester ;)
4. Maven
04.12.2006 at 3:46 pm
Please make it available as soon as possible… doesn’t matter if it cracks.. we want to play! :)
5. Martin Cohen
04.12.2006 at 3:55 pm
Maven: As I said, only thing that is really missing for alpha is snippets support. That will take approximately one week to get done and some more days to polish and test. We are close. :)
6. spo
04.12.2006 at 3:59 pm
that’s fantastic news!
7. Branstrom
04.12.2006 at 9:22 pm
Salivating!
8. JPhantom
05.12.2006 at 12:53 am
Best news I’ve heard all month, despite the fact it has been only four days. Even though some people are anxious, take your time finishing up the remaining bits. We don’t want anything to break completely during testing.
9. Norman
05.12.2006 at 2:57 am
Amazing! I cant wait to try this out :)
10. Curmorpheus
05.12.2006 at 7:14 am
Been waiting for a month + now and this is fantastic news, can’t wait to have my hands on it.
This will decide once and for all if I need to make the jump to a mac.
No pressure. But my potential mac purchase comes out of the dog food budget.
Make it good and save a shitzu. ;-)
11. JRivero
05.12.2006 at 10:04 am
nice!
12. Anonymous coward
05.12.2006 at 6:30 pm
Looking forward to the Screencasts…
13. Would love to try it out!
05.12.2006 at 7:33 pm
…yeah!
14. Impatient coward
05.12.2006 at 11:54 pm
HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY HURRY
MAKE IT THE BEST CHRISTMAS EVER!!!!
15. Stijnster
06.12.2006 at 11:10 am
Great news! Good job and hopefully we will be able to testdrive it ourself.
Looking forward to the screencast as well!
16. kib²
07.12.2006 at 12:05 am
Every day I check my mail to see if InType is here…hope it will come as soon as possible :)
17. Yarden
07.12.2006 at 6:39 pm
GOOD
18. Martin Cohen
07.12.2006 at 6:49 pm
JPhantom: wrote: We don’t want anything to break completely during testing.
JPhantom: This is alpha release, so it is not intended for serious work. It should serve as a preview or a testing release of first features mentioned in this post.
19. Guybrush
22.01.2007 at 2:48 am
can´t wait for it. hurry up guy´s, we all need some new tool to play with ;-)
have a nice week full of non-buggy code
cheers
guybrush
20. Woody Eckerslike.
22.01.2007 at 11:47 pm
E Up Lads, excellent Alpha.
21. theshuboxblog » Intype, a textMate for Windows?
25.01.2007 at 5:04 pm
[…] I have been using a little text-editor on the mac called TextMate, which I think is fantastic - it looks good, feels good and has a number of shortcuts that will be useful for any xhtml/css coder. However, I don’t just edit on a mac - sometimes its more convenient to work on the windows machine in my office, or even out of the office but the current crop of html editors for windows are, in my view, dull and unintuitive. Happily, after much scouring and much waiting, an alpha version of Intype will soon become available. This is not a textMate clone but does borrow heavily from it and incorporates all of those features that I love about textmate and what makes it a worthwhile web-developers tool. I’m hoping the preview facility is as good as textmate’s also… with any luck I’ll be able to find out in the next couple of weeks when the alpha version is released for testing. […]
22. Anonymous coward
07.04.2007 at 5:46 pm
where is the fucking manual ?