nMars - IDE

Overview

• Executable file is nMars.IDE.exe
• IDE has simple editor of warriors and rules
• IDE integrates parser and it's showing parser errors on it's console
• IDE is able to manage warriors in projects ans solutions

Editor and IDE

• project is set of settings similar to console switches
  • it contains warriors
  • rules
  • praser and engine options
  • breakpoints
• solution is set of projects
  • it is setup of components which are used to run projects
  • it contains projects
  • it contains components setting
• IDE default components could be configured thru nMars.IDE.exe.config

Debugger

• has three types of debug watches
  • graph planar view of memory
  • list linear view of memory
  • warriors/tasks warrior stats and task queue
• watches has colour semantics for each memory cell
  • outer frame is colour of warrior lt.red, lt.green, lt.blue and lt.yellow
  • inner frame is colour of instruction
    • MOV grey
    • DAT black
    • SPL blue
    • math violet
    • jumps green
  • inner white dot for DAT instructions other than 0,0
  • there are event flashes for
    • read aquamarine
    • write orange
    • exec seagreen
    • died cyan
  • there is tooltip with plenty information about cell
  • click will focus cell in listing watch
  • future: double click will edit cell
  • UI and engine are asynchronous, engine could change speed
• Single click on cell will focus it in memory listing
• Double click on cell will open breakpoints editor
• There is console/shell which could execute textual commands
• Shell could be extended by nMarsShellPy module with IronPython