The following is a list of tools and resources to help you develop your games in BennuGD
Bundles
BennuPack (http://bennupack.blogspot.com/)
Bennupack include more 150 games with source code, docs, tutorials, and tools for Game Development.
IDEs
Flamebird (https://sourceforge.net/projects/fbtwo/)
Flamebird is a IDE made for Fenix with support for BennuGD.
It has its years, but is very complete and has support for FPG and Pal edition, and some Project management tools.
FPG and Pal Editors
Smart FPG Editor (https://bitbucket.org/dacucar/smart-fpg-editor)
Smart Fpg Editor is an easy-to-use, user friendly and powerful FPG editor tool for Windows. It was conceived as a painless FPG editor, to fullfill the lack of several characteristics I missed in existing FPG editors, and with the ease of use in mind.
FPG/FNT Editor
Excellent tool that allows you to edit BennuGD FPG and FNT files, that happens to run on Linux via Wine as well.
Syntax Highlighting Plugins
Visual Studio Code
BennuGD syntax package for Visual Studio Code IDE: https://github.com/ameliandev/bennugd.tmbundle
Instructions: http://forum.bennugd.org/index.php/topic,4684.msg73319.html#msg73319
Notepad++
Syntax Highlight: Download
Instructions for configuring a nice integration with:
– auto-completion
– script to execute the code without opening the main prg file
– project window
– console output window
– process/functions window
http://forum.bennugd.org/index.php/topic,4684.msg73348.html#msg73348
Crimson Publishing (http://www.crimsoneditor.com/)
– Excellent editor, with a column edit mode like UltraEdit.
– Syntax highlighting
– Template “hello world”
– Ctrl+F1 = Compile
– Ctrl+F2 = Run
ConTEXT (http://www.contexteditor.org/index.html)
– Syntax highlighting
– Shortcuts to insert code templates.
– F9 = Compile
F10 = Run
– Execute the file “fixbennu.reg” to complete the installation (this will alter your install, so only use it on a fresh ConTEXT install)
PSPad publishing (http://www.pspad.com)
– Syntax highlighting
– Template “hello world”
– Shortcuts to insert code templates.
– Ctrl+F9 = Compile
– F9 = Run
– Execute the file “PSPad-Bennu-Install.bat” to complete the installation.
NOTE: This IDE cannot capture console output.
Ultraedit (http://www.ultraedit.com/)
– Syntax highlighting
– Compile and run shortcuts
– List of functions and processes in the current PRG.