Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by martyb on Wednesday July 17 2019, @10:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the hump-day-relief dept.

Check out the new MSPaintIDE on GitHub.

A video of it demonstrates creating a simple "hello world" type application. About one minute later in the video, you can see how easy it is to create a small GUI application that pops up a simple dialog box.

MS Paint brings unique advantages as a source code editor for Java. You can erase source code you no longer want. You can re-arrange source code. Correct mistakes. Etc.

Then the IDE (integrated development environment) can then OCR your code, update your project tree, compile, and produce a completed executable build. Try doing that with a stupid ordinary plain ol' text editor!


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @10:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @10:55AM (#868435)

    Why? I'll tell you why. It's the perfect platform to support the return of Clippy. Do vi variants have a Clippy module? What about emacs? Eclipse? Intellij? Notepad++? Others? Of course not.

    All hail the return of Clippy.
    You appear to have a syntax error? Would you like to:
    - Delete your source file?
    - Compile your source file?
    - Run Windows Update?
    - Sign up for an Outlook.com account?
    - Buy a Microsoft eBook?
    - Renew your Play For Sure subscription?