OpenSCAD Editor (node-webkit)
Description
I run Linux and all of the current editors are for Windows or OSX. I decided to use node-webkit and CodeMirror Editor to make an all systems compatible editor.
Instructions
github.com/iceblu3710/OpenSCAD_Editor
Features:
- Available on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows
- Autoformatting, Block Comment/Uncomment
- Code folding
- Syntax highlighting (In progress)
- Find & Replace (In progress, needs UI)
- Autocomplete (Implementation only)
Instructions:
- Download one of the node-webkit prebuilt binaries (v0.4.0 — Jan 18, 2013)
- Open/Install OpenSCAD and in the menu select View -> Hide Editor and Design -> Automatic Reload and Compile
- Unzip the node-webkit binary and cut/copy the nw.exe and nw.pak files into the OpenSCAD editor folder
- Run nw.exe and open a .scad file in both the editor AND in OpenSCAD itself
- Whenever you make changes in the editor press F5 or Ctrl-S and OpenSCAD will render the changes
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You may like http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ with http://www.thingiverse.com/thi... (or http://www.thingiverse.com/thi... who like a white background).
While Chrome, Safari and other are WebKit browsers they do not have the system calls and capabilities of node.js nativly as this is usually a server package. (Node.js can do system/socket calls)
Google webcast on their way of supporting node.js:
https://developers.google.com/...
I chose to use node-webkit (see the binary links in the instructions section) because it is essentially a stripped down self contained server with chromium at its heart. It has multimedia accelerations, HTML5 support and even openGL acceleration.
If anybody knows of a way to remove the node-webkit binary requirement that would be awesome as its a bit of a large download (but runs portably so no installing is needed)
Any thing I need to do to get it to work in Chrome on Windows7? Page is up but can get no buttons to work.
License
A conversation on editors for Linux is never complete until someone recommends Vim :). Consider it done. https://github.com/vim-scripts...
Very true! Unfortunately Vim has a larger learning curve than OpenSCAD...