Sonny @sonny@floss.social

It is implemented as a sub-process which communicates via DBus with the main application.

When activated, the sub-process takes care of rendering the preview as well as building and running the code.

We need to do some cleanups, but we designed and built it in a way that it should be trivial to implement new languages.

Workbench now supports the #Vala programming language for learning and prototyping #GTK

Thanks to Lorenz Wildberg !

https://gitlab.gnome.org/lwildberg

And since Blueprint ships a language server - we can even get auto-completion, hints and so on !

Very cool @flyingpimonster

Technical details; the first prototype was spawning the blueprint-compiler on every change – which would take ~ 700ms to update the real time preview.

I am now using the blueprint language server as a long-running sub-process using the stdio transport and only sending the new text on change.

https://github.com/sonnyp/Workbench/issues/3

https://gitlab.gnome.org/jwestman/blueprint-compiler/-/merge_requests/33

GTK XML is fine for RAD tools (Glade, Cambalache , ...) but way too verbose and with too many levels of indentation for hand-writing.

I'm excited to see where Blueprint goes

Exciting new milestone for Blueprint support in Workbench

It's like those 2 were made for each others !

#GTK #GNOME

https://github.com/sonnyp/Workbench

https://gitlab.gnome.org/jwestman/blueprint-compiler

A new version of Workbench is out featuring

- A brand-new Library of examples
- Platform tools are available from the main menu
- Windows can now be previewed
- The Console can be collapsed
- Allow using DBus and Gio.Application
- Allow using network
- Design improvements
- Various issue and crash fixes

https://flathub.org/apps/details/re.sonny.Workbench

#GNOME #GTK #linux #development

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@jsparber hacking on GTK inspector and Workbench during #LinuxAppSummit

In the spirit of #linuxappsummit , I'm looking for someone on site to help me debug a #KDE specific bug in my #GNOME app https://github.com/sonnyp/Junction/issues/70 anyone interested ? Boost appreciated

See you at #linuxappsummit \o/

Progress on Workbench after a beautiful hike in the Alpes.

Workbench now supports real time window previews 🥳

#gnome #gtk

#GNOME on rails! Hackaton in the train with @tbernard , Jonas and Robert on the way to Italy for hiking and #linuxappsummit