The reason why I asked about compatibility between GoldedEd AIX and Cubic is, that for the older one a lot more language extensions have been published, several used by me.

Within the last few years I didn't take much attention to GED related news cause they mostly referred to the C extension package. So I don't know how much improvements or API changes happened to the editor itself.

GED always needed a special Assign GoldEd:

How about Cubic, does it need a special Assign ? Is it possible to run ged6 and cubic at the same time on the same machine, e.g. ged6+not-cubic-compatible-extension and cubic+hollywood-extension ?

@pOS:
> So I don't know how much improvements or API changes happened to the editor itself.

As far as add-ons are concerned, there were significant improvements - like tabbed add-ons. GoldED6 was crappy in that regard. Can't remember when the switch to better add-ons was made (in AIX or in Cubic?).

> between GoldedEd AIX and Cubic is, that for the older one a lot more language extensions have been published

Really? I'm not aware of many extensions. A lot of third-party extensions were made for GoldED3 and GoldED4: a TeX editing environment, a hex editor, etc. Then Amiga decline set it and developers disappeared. After GoldED5, virtually no third-party add-ons appeared anymore. Between GoldED6, GoldED AIX (internal name GoldED7) and Cubic's GoldED8, GoldED8 should have the most add-ons.

> GED always needed a special Assign GoldEd

Cubic's main editor GoldED needs the "golded:" assign and can not be used with an older GoldED on the same computer (except by changing the assign and flushing resident libraries before a switch).

If you weant to try out Cubic on a computer with an old GoldED, comment out the old GoldED stuff in user-startup, reboot, install and try Cubic, then have it uninstalled by its uninstall program. All of Cubic's file go into a single directory with exception of the starter in wbstartup, so it's a clean uninstall.

Very old GoldED versions used to spread files all over the system, ie. in fonts:, libs:, c: etc., and should be removed with their uninstall utility before Cubic is installed permanently!

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And it's time again for the x-mas promo by Dietmar. Grab a copy of Cubic IDE now and save a lot. It's definitively worth it.
See: http://devplex.awardspace.biz/online-shop/articles/special/index.html

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Got my order in on the first day it was announced! Thanks Dietmar.

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Why don't you upload it to rapidshare and post the link on your website ? It's not the most straightforward way, but at least it would be available for download and it's free if you have a little patience. or split them with winrar or as such. Or Am I missing something ?

[ Edited by Oepabakkes on 2008/12/9 9:48 ]

> Why don't you upload it to rapidshare and post the link on your website ?

Many Amiga users have problems with the javascript on file hosters' sites. I used them for a while but there were complaints (and not enough downloads to keep the files alive).

- edit: I've upgraded the hosting plan and when I get to it, the download will be re-enabled.

[ Edited by Dietmar on 2008/12/9 22:06 ]

I use CubicIDE on Efika to compile my stuff on it and it works quite well.

Anyway I don't see / never saw a reason why it shouldn't :)

Geit

Thanks to the xmax offer, I took the change to get CubicIDE... even without testing !
I hope I'll feel a real improvement

Unfortunately, I haven't upgraded since AIX. No particular reason for not upgrading this time I probably should upgrade myself..

Hello Dietmar,

What is the differences between 'free' golded in morphos SdK and the cubic ide ?

And xmas promo is sold out :(

Czk

[ Edited by Tcheko on 2008/12/10 0:08 ]

> What is the differences between 'free' golded in morphos SdK and the cubic ide ?

morphed is limited to C/C++ MorphOS development with gcc and the MOS SDK. It doesn't support other compilers and doesn't target other platforms. For example, it is not set up to compile 68k versions. It doesn't step much beyond editing C sources.

Cubic, on the other hand, targets OS3, OS4 and MorphOS. It ships with many non-C-related components. The editor in Cubic, GoldED8, obviously is newer, with better features. For example, it can open all texts in one tabbed window and has better plug-ins (stackable containers).

I use GoldED for more of the ARexx functions, and on occasion, for writing AmigaGuide texts. While I have done some C in the past, I fear that I am not knowledgeable enough to do much past a command line type application.

I don't remember exactly how I did it, but (at least at one time) I had GoldED set up through MUI to replace the editor gadget in IBrowse. Hitting the "E" button on the bottom right corner of the text-input field for a forum post would put me in a GoldED window temporarily. That would allow me to use Joyce to help fix spelling issues, and "saving" the file would put it into the text field in the page displayed by IBrowse. Quite handy. (Note to self: double check how it works, and throw up a "did you know" line.)

@Targhan

Code:
Should do that.

setenv EDITOR golded:ed sticky

(In case of GoldED, the starter "ed" should be used unless yout want multiple instances of GoldED in memory. The starter works by sending a message to GoldED, ie. it is asynchronous by design. In this case, you want the editor to run synchronously, ie. it must not return control to ibrowse until the text is saved. To achieve that, the STICKY/S argument is used)

That's it! I knew I remember a switch was in the command somewhere. At any rate, having the EDITOR set to GoldED really helps for avoiding horrible typos in posts.