O.B.D.E.

On-Board Development Environment

(c)2010 VisualNewt Software

 Preliminary
As of 06/03/2010 - contents WILL change!

All contents (c) 2010 VisualNewt Software.

 Objectives

• What Is OBDE?

• What can you do with OBDE?

• OBDE IDE Functionality

• OBDL
 What is OBDE

• An on-board iPad development environment.

• An on-board iPhone runtime environment.

• An interpreted development language.

 OBDL V1.0

• This is the first release

• Will evolve across future releases.

• V1.0 is described in this presentation.

What Can You Do With
OBDE?
• Develop on the iPad.

• Write programs that run on the iPad and

iPhone.

• Use all public frameworks supported by the

iPhone and iPad.

• Generate UIs from XIBs imported onto your

device.
 OBDE Workspaces
• OBDE has two "workspaces"

• A project:

• The source code, XIBs, and resources implement an OBDE app.

• You can have any number of projects.

• The library

• Contains all items that can be used in a project.

• There is a single library.

• OBDE functions work across and in these workspaces.

 OBDE IDE
Functionality
• Project management

• Source code editing

• Debugging environment

• Runtime environment

• View generation/XIB regeneration

The OBDE IDE
The user interface
 Main Screen

• The launch
screen

• Shows main
functions

• Shows OBDE
projects.
 OBDE
Project Management
 Project Management

• Associate XIBs,
resources, source
code into a project.

• Manage project
components.

• Projects are folder

oriented.
 Functions

• These are
common to all
screens.
 Project Management
Commands

• Allow you to
manage
selections

• The library
contains all items
whether or not
part of a project.
Project Management Project

• Allows you to manage

projects.
 Project Information

• Manage project
metadata
OBDE
Source Editing
 Source Editing

• Edit and manage

source code.

• Test parse the

syntax.

• Use code snippets

and fragments.
 Source Editing
Functions

• Common to all screens

 Source Editing
Functions

• Allows you to
manage the
source file.
Source Editing Library

• View and edit

source files in
your library.
Source Editing Project

• View and edit source

files in a selected
project.
 Source Editing
Snippets

• Quickly write code

using predefined and
your own snippets.
OBDE
Debugger
 Debugging
Environment

• On-Board
Debugger

• To be done
OBDE
Run
 Runtime Environment

• Runs on iPhone and

iPad

• Requires only the

project folder and
OBDE runtime.
OBDE
View Processing
 View Generation

• Generate
views
graphically.

• View and
manage item
properties.
 XIB Regeneration

• Display views based

on XIBs

• Display properties of
view-based objects.
 View Processing
Functions

• These are common

to all screens.
 View Processing
Functions

• Manage the current

view.
 View Processing
Options

• Switch between the

tools and properties
palettes.
 View Processing
Library and Project

• These allow you to

work with views in
your library or
project.
 View Processing
Palette

• Another way to
get to the tools
and properties
when dealing
with full screen
views.
Tools Palettes
Properties Palette

• To be done
 OBDE
(Testing Environment)
 Testing Environment

• Not part of the the release.

• Gives me an internal view of

what is going on.
OBDL
The Language
 OBDL
• On-Board Development Language

• Interpreted

• Ruby-like syntax

• Target-Action

• Hooks into Foundation and UIKit

 Ruby-Like Syntax

• OBDL is not Ruby

• OBDL uses a minimal subset of Ruby

syntax.

• OBDL is object oriented (primitives are not).

• OBDL supports MVC.

 OBDL Classes

• Base class inherits

from NSObject

• Can inherit from

other iPhone SDK
classes.
 Program Structure

• One Main class

• One main method

• Use 'require' to
include other
classes.
 Class Types
• Program classes:

• MVC-specific

• Main

• SDK-based

• Scoped to an MVC
class

• Or a main

• Encapsulated to
function.
 Instantiating OBDL
Classes

• Explict instantiation
only.

• Different from Ruby.

 Freeing OBDL
Instances

• To be done
 OBDL Properties

• To be done
 OBDL Methods

• Use dot notation to

invoke.

• 'initialize' method
called prior to all
others.
 OBDL Conditionals

• 'if' statement
patterned after Ruby.

• Note it's not elseif,

but elsif!
 OBDL Loops

• 'until' and 'while' loops

supported.
 OBDL Loops

• 'for' loop in exclusive range.

• '...' syntax not supported.

 OBDL and the SDK

• To be done
 OBDL Target-Action -
Outlets
• Outlets are declared as:

• attr_writer :outletname

• Outlets and actions can

be generated from IB
XIBs.
 OBDL Target-Action -
Actions
• Actions are
declared as:

• def name:

• Outlets and
actions can be
generated from
IB XIBs.
 OBDL Models

• Models cannot refer to

view objects or classes.

• Declared as:

• class Name < Model

 OBDL Views
• Use XIBs from IB

• Generates an OBDL View

class.

• Programatically create your

own

• Cannot refer to models.

• Declared as:

• class Name < View

 OBDL Views XIB-Generated
Views

• To be done
 OBDL Controllers
• Only class that can refer to
models and views.

• Declared as:

• class name < Controller

• If name ends in .xib, the

class controls a xib-
generated view.
 OBDL Controllers XIB-Generated
Controllers.

• Given an IB XIB, OBDE can

generate a view controller
with:

• All outlets defined

• All actions stubbed out.

OBDE Current Status
Very preliminary
 Current Status Project
Management

• All functions work apart from displaying

project metadata.
Current Status Source
Editing
• All functions work except

• Link to source parser

• Creating and managing snippets

• Inserting snippets at selection point (now

just appends)
 Current Status View
Processing
• Parses all XIBs.

• Except for items requiring NSCoder.

• Regenerates views from XIBs

• Except for images and NSCoder-based items.

• Properly generates OBDL controllers based on XiBs

• Needs to generate OBDL views.

• Needs properties palette and functions

• Needs tools palette functionality.

 Current Status Run

• To be done
 Current Status
Debugger

• To be done
 Current Status OBDL
• Core language defined

• Language parser mostly complete

• Language pcode generator mostly complete

• Expression parser needs to be done

• Metadata classes and program environment

mostly complete
 Current Status PCode
Runtime

• To be done
Futures
Things to come
 In Future Releases

• OBIB - XIB creation

• OBCB - Code builder - visual programming

Summary
 Version 1.0

• Coming ...