AutoHotkey Community

[Murp|e]

An AutoHotkey-specific IDE would be great and a debugger would be very much appreciated. But since the debugger clearly seems to be the work-intensive feature, wouldn't it be great if "we" started working on a simplified IDE just by consolidating all of the existing tools that are available? So many helpfull scripts already exist. For example, wouldn't somehow integrating the following tools be very nice:

• AutoHotkey help
  
• WindowSpy
  
• Compiler
  
• Decompiler
  
• Lines most recently executed
  
• Variables and their contents
  
• Hotkeys and their methods
  
• Key history and script info
  
• GUI Creator
  
• GUI Pic Buttons
  
• Lil Builder
  
• IntelliSense
  
• MsgBox Creator
  
• SW Protection Lazslo
  
• Auto-Syntax-Tidy
  
• INICreator
  
• XML Reader/Writer
  
• SpreadSheet Grid
  
• +Many I don't know of?

I have no idea how difficiult it would be to create a Scintilla-based editor, but that sounds like a good idea.

Also, considering the wealth of scripts constantly being updated/created, perhaps it would be a better idea for the IDE-development to focus on a way of integrating/adding scripts to the IDE as plugins/addons. That would probably also be a better way of spreading the work across the community: each script-creator would adapt his/her own script.

In many cases the scripts are self-contained so adding these to the IDE could be as easy as copying the scripts to a given "plugin" directory and providing easy access to it from the IDE window.