by Comicino Support » Wed Nov 16, 2011 2:11 pm
Hello Aquiles,
we are working full tilt to make a Beta Version available as soon as possible. We hope to release a Beta Version of Comicino Studio Professional before the end of this year.
We have added many new features that make Comicino Studio also a great Ajax IDE for database driven Websites.
In addition we are adding a scriping interface for the Comicino Studio IDE to allow third parties to build add-ons.
Our first own add-on will bring eLearning features to Comicino Studio. This add-on can be purchased seperately and runs in each edition of Comicino Studio.
The most development time consuming new feature are internal changes that allows Comicino Studio to use "Built Target Plugins".
This is a very hot feature and might become the main reason for Developers to switch to Comicino Studio.
This "Built Target Plugins" allow Comicino Studio to create projects for other third party compilers, frameworks or development enviroments.
This will be the workflow for our users: Develop your application with Comicino Studio as an easy-to-use Rapid Application Builder with all its graphical aids and database tools.
Then you have two Options:
(1) You can built a standalone Web, Desktop or Smartphone (web) application with Comicino Studio
or
(2) You can export your project for a third party compiler, framework or development solution. This allows using your Comicino Studio project on a wide range of platforms and gives you security to reuse your project outside of Comicino Studio. We believe that this kind of "Multi Framework Development Suits" will be highly demanded in the future. In the background it requires advanced Source Code conversion to other programming languages and frameworks. This way we want to handle native smartphone applications or Microsoft Visual Studio ASP .NET export. We are also looking into other built targets like Microsoft Silverlight or Windows Azure. But here we are totally commited to the wishlist of our users.
Best of all: We plan to make the plugin interface available to the public. So in the future third parties might be able to create new "Built Targets" for Comicino Studio.
This advanced features are planned for the Enterprise or Architect Edition of Comicino Studio.