TI-BASIC on Visual Studio Code

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TI-BASIC on Visual Studio Code

(account deleted) 26 Sep 2019 16:41

I've already installed Visual Studio Code on my PC, but is there an extension that allows TI-Basic on VSC?

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Hewwo, my name is Achak Claw. I was formerly BioHazard.

Re: TI-BASIC on Visual Studio Code

Jeffitus 26 Sep 2019 20:53

Nope, if you're writing TI-Basic code on your computer then SC3 is your best option.

Re: TI-BASIC on Visual Studio Code

(account deleted) 26 Sep 2019 21:04

Can't on SC3. LanSchool. Can't use TokenIDE. Counts as running/installing software on the school computers. I already added z80/ez80 on VSC.

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Hewwo, my name is Achak Claw. I was formerly BioHazard.

Re: TI-BASIC on Visual Studio Code

Trenly 26 Sep 2019 23:12

You could write your own extension for VSC. But, that would be extremely time consuming and difficult especially considering the large number of functions that can result in error, and how you would process everything. You would be better off just doing it on the calculator at that point.

Re: TI-BASIC on Visual Studio Code

(account deleted) 27 Sep 2019 05:13

Maybe, instead of a single person to work on this project, we can possibly make this a community project on Github. It may take a while, but I personally think this would be a fun project. Github is a good start since millions of users can help with this idea. We can tell people on Github and Discord about this project.

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Hewwo, my name is Achak Claw. I was formerly BioHazard.

Re: TI-BASIC on Visual Studio Code

Trenly 27 Sep 2019 12:24

That would make it very difficult to do source controlling, and if not set up properly could easily become really messy. It would be hard to ensure that the best practices for coding were used, and would be even harder to test any changes people would make. The idea is good, but this would be a better project for 3-4 people rather than a public project. Public projects are better suited for things like entire operating systems, or for maintaining updates to an already finished project. The more people you have working on something, the more difficult it becomes to ensure the code is quality

Re: TI-BASIC on Visual Studio Code

(account deleted) 27 Sep 2019 12:39

I see, than just anybody can edit the project and mess it up even more. We don't know who exactly will help with the project, but at least we can ask people on here and Discord who is willing to help. I'm in for this project, I have the entire "Flyday" to Sunday to myself.

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Hewwo, my name is Achak Claw. I was formerly BioHazard.

Re: TI-BASIC on Visual Studio Code

Trenly 28 Sep 2019 18:27

Its not the type of project that can be done in just a week or two either. Implementing all the syntax highlighting would be difficult enough. Then you have to add in error checking and warnings, which would take a long time to get right for every single use of every command. Then of course it would really be best to have it compile and decompile directly to .8xp format, because it wouldn’t really be that useful of an extension if it didn’t. Now you have to make sure it compiles all that correctly now, with every command in every syntax and every token. Taking into account that most people who code in TI-Basic likely aren’t as well versed in TypeScript it could take well over a year to even get something that is more than just syntax highlighting.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t do it, but with the amount of free tools already out there I would bet there are better ways to spend your time

Re: TI-BASIC on Visual Studio Code

Battlesquid 03 Oct 2019 17:36

You could just implement syntax highlighting and pass the file to an exe that can compile to 8xp, rather than trying to integrate the compile logic in VS code. I'm not sure if TokenIDE can be used as a cli, but it's worth looking into.

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Re: TI-BASIC on Visual Studio Code

Trenly 03 Oct 2019 21:16

While that may work, it would require the exe to either be included with the extension, or already be downloaded on the users computer. I would be doubtful if you could include an external exe when creating the extension, which means the user would also have to specify the file path to the exe.