Technolo-babble

After finding out that Qt is now available under an LGPL license (well, as of March 3), I've decided to revive work on my thus-unnamed C++-based cross-platform DM-IDE project (compare to Crashed's Python-based DMIDE). Previously I was using wxWidgets (which I'm not particularly fond of), but now I'll be restarting the project under Qt (which is much more elegant!). Initially I'm probably going to keep the IDE closed-source but may free it up after it's been polished a little.

I've not done much for the IDE quite yet (I'll have more free time soon), but I did manage to nearly complete a syntax-highlighting routine. All that's left is to add multi-line functionality to strings and preprocessor commands per the escaped-newline sequence and {""} blocks, and handle embedded string objects "[rawrVar]" --- neither of which will be at all difficult (surprisingly). After that I can start working on other (less-interesting?) aspects of the IDE.

I'm not making any suggestions at any kind of release cycle, and I probably won't be making regular updates on the project's progress (especially after my membership expires and this blog becomes unusable), but I'll leave off with a small teaser of what I've been toying with for just a little while now: