Wish Will the B4A IDE ever be available for Mac?

[paris7162]

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]

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]

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.

 

[LucaMs]

Microsoft is pushing to make .Net cross platform.

Just wait ?

 

[amorosik]

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.

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

 

[agraham]

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.

 

[amorosik]

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.

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

 

[LWGShane]

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

One I know for sure are controls from Actipro Software.

 

[chikega]

Parallels on Mac runs B4X like a champ on my MBP. It helps that B4X is not a bloated piece of software too. It fast and nimble ?

 

[Indic Software]

@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.

 

[Erel]

No. I've tried it in the past. The editor interface relies on many Windows specific API that are not supported by Mono.