Protocol Used between Cicode Editor and Runtime for Debugging

Hi Ben,

It is always interesting to see the work the community do with our products to make their lives easier. This particular endeavour we really understand, and great job on what you have done so far.

It is fair to say we have had a major update to the Cicode Editor on our longer term roadmap for a while now, but we haven't been able to get this prioritized.

Unfortunately, we can't disclose the protocol specifics at this time and it remains under the terms of our license agreement which includes a provision against reverse engineering.

If something changes in the future either in feature priority or an exclusion for the protocol we'll let you know.

bradley

Hey Bradley,

While it is a disappointing result, thank you for the confirmation.

Ben

Did you ever decide to make the syntax highlighting and code parser stuff you got working publicly available, without the proprietary debug component?

Hey Mark,

AVEVA made their position clear on the debugger, so unfortunately I wasn't able to develop that component.

The original plan was to open source it, but I didn't end up getting approval.

Hey Mark,

AVEVA made their position clear on the debugger, so unfortunately I wasn't able to develop that component.

The original plan was to open source it, but I didn't end up getting approval.

My understanding from that conversation was that the debugging protocol was proprietary and off limits, but that didn't prevent the bits you'd already got working (syntax highlighting etc) from being shared. There are configurations available from users for other editors like Notepad++, but not, to my knowledge, for VSCode. Bradley can correct me if I'm wrong on that. 

Quite understand that you may have dropped it in a partial state that wasn't suited for release even so, but figured it was worth asking. NP++ isn't a bad editor, it's just that I tend to use VSCode more because it's cross platform.

Yes, that was my understanding as well. I just didn't want to give the impression that that was why we weren't releasing it. It was purely a business decision.

But, can confirm that VsCode does enable some really cool features, especially with the AI codegen integrations, you can almost treat it like a general purpose programming language. Just need a Cicode runtime now so that I don't have to restart Citect every time I need to test things.