It is possible the IDE / FormDesigner turn opensource?

[Karellen]

Olby: Nice drawing!
And: same here!

[luis]

This is how I feel about the original PB IDE:

I think this posture can be open to interpretation.

[heartbone]

It doesn't NEED a cure IMHO, I like it just the way it is. Consistent, straightforward, uncluttered and intuitive, just like the language itself and keeping with the core principles of PB. I don't think it would be that way if it was designed by committee. Keeping it elegantly simple but still functional is harder than just adding every feature someone requests. I personally never cared for the IDEs that try to be everything to everyone. Some of them have a zillion flying listboxes, trees, dropdowns, buttons and editors cluttered all over the place.

One of the goals of Visual Studio 2012 was to reduce clutter: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj618297.aspx

Please just keep doing what you are doing PB guys.

I agree with that quality comment wholeheartedly.

This is how I feel about the original PB IDE:

I think this posture can be open to interpretation.

Now that you mention it... and I always thought that the PB logo was the letter Z.
Nowadays anything goes, but still one has to be pretty hard up to do a red robot.
As long as you don't hurt others, then whatever turns your cookie is OK by me.

The open source request is a horrible idea at this time,
and the inferences used as justification are probably not appreciated by most here.

[Kruno]

Was there any point during the development of the PB IDE you guys wanted to use something like the Eclipse platform?

[Fred]

Was there any point during the development of the PB IDE you guys wanted to use something like the Eclipse platform?

No. I can hear the complains from here: "Why PB needs 100 Mb just to compile a program ? Why JAVA runtime is needed for the IDE ?". Also we want to have a big program written in PB, to apply the "eat you own dogfood" (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2004/04/16.html) paradigm.

[Little John]

I'm happy with the PB IDE, and I'm very happy that PB does not use Eclipse.

[c4s]

Was there any point during the development of the PB IDE you guys wanted to use something like the Eclipse platform?

Oh my...