Wish Will the B4A IDE ever be available for Mac?

paris7162

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Are we ever getting a native Mac B4x IDE? I use a Parallels virtual machine to use the app. At this point I believe Erel can do anything so I would like to not have to boot up a virtual machine to use the IDE.
 

josejad

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Probably not, and not in a near future

Repeatedly desirable IDE versions for macOS!

Hello! I have seen many times this wish but I need to tell something: Some days ago, I found that Microsoft has built its VSCode editor for cross-platform, so I can use it with my Mac! Is there any hope to see the best IDE for all platforms working with macOS in order to get rid of virtual...
www.b4x.com
 

Erel

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If it helps, do know that I fully agree with your request and I see it as a high priority.
The IDE is heavily based on Microsoft .Net WPF + other powerful .Net UI libraries. These technologies are Windows only.
The current IDE is (very) good. It has good performance, it is flexible and it fits B4X like a glove. I don't want to invest a lot of time and efforts to build a new cross platform IDE that will be eventually worse than the current one.

Microsoft is pushing to make .Net cross platform. This might open new possibilities.
 

amorosik

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Can we know wich libraries, in addition to Visual Studio, are used?
 

amorosik

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agraham said:
There is no such thing as a Visual Studio library. VS is just the IDE that enables project compilation and debugging. The libraries are mostly part of the .NET Framework with the IDE editor having originated as a third party WPF control.
Click to expand...

I think that wit "...other powerful .Net UI libraries..." Erel meant libraries external to the Microsoft development environment
 

Indic Software

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@Erel,
Would it be possible to convert your code for B4X IDE to Mono?

I am asking because Mono runs on Linux as well as MacOS. And Mono has managed to replicate most of the libraries of .NET.
 
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