1 Topic by iangilman

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Topic: More full-featured IDE or another way to access the code

My app (infinitecanvas.jgate.de) is rather long (over 5000 lines), and editing it within the IDE (as lovely as Bespin is) is challenging. Today I wanted to be able to search and couldn't figure out how. I then tried to select all the text and copy it out so I could edit in my desktop text editor, but couldn't get that to work either. I'm on a Mac, for what that's worth.

I guess my preference would be to be able to ftp the code down to my desktop and back up again, so I can use my favorite tools on it. The other option would be to provide additional features in the IDE, such as find/replace, function lists, etc.

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Re: More full-featured IDE or another way to access the code

5000 lines are a lot and there are currently limits as you are describing.

At least for the reading part, you can use the new subversion feature. When your app is published, you can use the "commit" command to add a version to the repository. This feature is currently only accessible from the AppJet editor, so you have to change your preferences from Bespin to AppJet temporarily. Once committed, you can use the built-in ViewVC (Revision log) or any subversion client to read your app. If this works better for you, I see, if I can enable write access for you for to use this way to update your app.

3 Reply by iangilman

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Re: More full-featured IDE or another way to access the code

Yes, SVN would be way better than FTP! Please let me know if/when you can get me write access. No big hurry, though... I'm not doing a lot with the app these days (just a little maintenance).