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C or ASM IDE for the Nspire
« on: April 12, 2012, 05:30:45 am »
I'm thinking of coding an on-calc IDE for C or ASM for the Nspire, with syntax highlighting and stuff like that. Is this a good idea? Would you like to see it? Tell me in the comments!
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Re: C or ASM IDE for the Nspire
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2012, 07:48:21 am »
A C/Asm on-calc IDE is not very useful since we don't have an on-calc compiler :P

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Re: C or ASM IDE for the Nspire
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2012, 08:48:24 am »
you can write one compu :) as i've seen some of your projects รถ

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Re: C or ASM IDE for the Nspire
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2012, 12:09:20 am »
Well, there's syntax highlighting and some other features in here http://omniurl.tk/6082/242635

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Re: C or ASM IDE for the Nspire
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2012, 10:09:04 am »
The project could be really interesting if you add the compiler with.
For the C I think the compiler would use too memory, but the assembly it is possible.
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Re: C or ASM IDE for the Nspire
« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2012, 09:35:18 am »
Good idea. I'm sure coders would code more with an on calc compiler :D
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Re: C or ASM IDE for the Nspire
« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2012, 09:40:11 am »
You can definitely put a C compiler on the calculator. It has been done for 68k calculators, and the TI-Nspire is much more powerful.
However, it is not an easy task.
I'd say take a look at the TCC compiler, IIRC correctly it has ARM support.
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Re: C or ASM IDE for the Nspire
« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2012, 09:58:43 am »
Thanks for your suggestions and thoughts, everybody. I think I'll start this over the summer, after finals.
Of course, keep posting any suggestions, thoughts, etc. pertaining to this idea.
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Re: C or ASM IDE for the Nspire
« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2012, 10:25:26 am »
You should do an IDE with multi tabs, and with sprite editor.
If you do your project, sure I'll download it !



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Re: C or ASM IDE for the Nspire
« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2012, 01:18:23 pm »
So is it on-calc or off the calc? If it's off the calc, then I think we definitively need more tools specific to the TI-Nspire like TIGCC/GCC4TI on the 68K calcs to make dev easier (currently, people are scared away because they have no clue where to start), along with the stuff like nSDL in another topic.

If it's on the computer then it would be nice too, because some of us don't always have access to a computer and it would be nice, like 84+ users, to be able to develop directly on our machine.

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Re: C or ASM IDE for the Nspire
« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2012, 06:32:00 pm »
I intend to make it an on-calc editor, because I personally usually program on-calc with my 84.
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Re: C or ASM IDE for the Nspire
« Reply #11 on: May 07, 2012, 06:44:07 pm »
If you do, then that means that I have a chance to actually learn nSpire stuff. :D
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Re: C or ASM IDE for the Nspire
« Reply #12 on: May 07, 2012, 06:59:11 pm »
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Re: C or ASM IDE for the Nspire
« Reply #13 on: May 08, 2012, 01:19:06 pm »
there's only one thing i don't really get.. is there so much ASM development for the Nspire? or is it just that i don't see see it? because i haven't seen anywhere programs made in ASM for the Nspire xs therefore it seems a bit lost work to make an ASM compiler

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Re: C or ASM IDE for the Nspire
« Reply #14 on: May 08, 2012, 02:29:32 pm »
I intend to make it an on-calc editor, because I personally usually program on-calc with my 84.
If you do an on-calc IDE, one thing you should add is the ability to go to page top/bottom, like on Casio calcs.
there's only one thing i don't really get.. is there so much ASM development for the Nspire? or is it just that i don't see see it? because i haven't seen anywhere programs made in ASM for the Nspire xs therefore it seems a bit lost work to make an ASM compiler
Barely anyone codes in ASM. Calc84maniac did, but almost everyone else seems to use C. In fact it was the same on 68K calcs after TIGCC arrived and since Cemetech took over PRIZM development now it seems to be the same for that platform too (when PRIZM dev started on Omni people were using ASM)