What Dev Environments are people using?

RichMacDonald wrote on 2/17/2004, 2:11 PM
What development environments does everyone use and/or would recommend? Script debuggers, IDEs, microsoft tools...whatever. Assume I'm an experienced Java programmer who is too lazy to do his own homework :-) I'm looking for sophistication, i.e., not notepad. TIA.

P.S. The original link to the scripting API no longer exists and I had trouble finding it via a search on this forum.

Basically, I'm playing around with using Vegas to generate my DVD menus. This leads to some simple manipulations of clips in tracks then rendering, done over and over again. I just want to automate this. Alternatively, I could probably use a Windows macro tool, but I have not explored that.

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 2/17/2004, 2:35 PM
Several people, including myself, are just using Notepad. Most scripts are only a few hundred lines long.
RichMacDonald wrote on 2/17/2004, 4:44 PM
>Several people, including myself, are just using Notepad.

I hear you, I just see that as a dead end into the complexity wall. Especially since there is no subroutine management except for copy/paste. Truth is that I am spoiled using the java Eclipse environment. I suspect the notepad approach is going to cause me too much frustration to get over the learning curve. For me its only a hobby not a job, and I'm already doing half my video work with one hand holding a sleeping baby :-)

Anyone using Visual Studio?
jetdv wrote on 2/17/2004, 7:07 PM
Well, I used notepad for scripts that are a couple thousand lines long.

The API is in the "sample scripts" zip file on the Vegas download page http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/download/step2.asp?DID=447
roger_74 wrote on 2/18/2004, 12:59 AM
Visual Studio is great, but it has no support for JScript.NET so if you want the handholding it provides you need to use another language.

UltraEdit at least has syntax highlighting (and is a very good editor).
cosmo wrote on 2/23/2004, 7:06 AM
TextPad is a great free tool for most kinds of programming. I'm not sure if it's up to speed with JScript.NET or not though...
Nat wrote on 2/26/2004, 11:01 AM
Metapad is also nice. Much better formatting than notepad.
rkelley wrote on 2/26/2004, 2:07 PM
vim all the way - oh, and 3 monitors :-)

The multiple monitors makes coding very nice. I will never go back to single monitor setups...

-Ron
JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/14/2004, 9:13 AM
I use SharpDevelop. It’s better than VisualStudio and it’s FREE! I bought a copy of VisualStudio for $99 and it doesn’t even allow you to make a DLL!!! Microsoft determined that DLL’s are an advanced function reserved for their $1000 professional version. Yea right, what a piece of garbage. SharpDevelop is everything VisualStudio should have been. This is how I developed QuickPan. SharpDevelop started out as a C# tool but they’ve added VB support. It does full GUI development in C# or VB. Even if you only use it as a syntax highlighting editor its fine for JScript development.

~jr
roger_74 wrote on 3/14/2004, 9:25 AM
Looks like JScript.NET support is in the works.
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1543

GUI designer support for JScript.NET would be sweet... since even Microsoft doesn't provide it in Visual Studio.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/14/2004, 9:34 AM
Yea support for developing GUI’s with JScript.NET would be sweet! I didn’t realize they were working on it. This is excellent!

~jr
spencen wrote on 3/29/2004, 4:20 AM
I'm using Visual Studio 2003 and writing scripts in VB.NET. If you include the reference to SonicFoundry.ScriptHost you get all the intellisense support.

Of course for anything serious I compile my own .NET assemblies, since writing 1000s of lines of script isn't a great idea from a code re-use or debugging standpoint.
SonyPJM wrote on 4/12/2004, 10:22 AM
emacs in java-mode works for me ;-)