HISE's Dope IDE / Share Your Custom Tweaks!

[clevername27]

I may be HISE's harshest critic, but my hot take is that HISE has the best IDE of any audio development environment. ️

I haven't seen many application frameworks where a comprehensive IDE is designed around specifically developing for it, with so many framework-specific high-level tools—46 of them (so far)!️ Take that, Xcode. (Probably. I'd swear that Xcode is so complex that some stuff is there just to gaslight devs.)

And it's so thoughtfully designed, in terms of features and workflow. Complexity is only revealed as it becomes relevant.

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My favourite tweak is building custom workspaces for specific problems I'm working on. 🧱 Because custom workspaces can contain other custom workspaces—in turn, containing a targeted assortment of the 46 high-level tools to build from. 🧰 And if that's not enough, I can save any part of the custom workspace for reuse or to revisit. 🛟

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What are your creative uses of HISE's IDE? (Or maybe just IDE-related emoji?)

[clevername27]

Using a Second Monitor

1. Enter Layout mode.
2. Add a Floating window.
3. Drag the window to the second monitor.
4. Set it to full-screen.
5. Exit Layout mode.
6. Quit HISE (to save your layout).

[clevername27]

Saving File Sets

This requires a Floating window. (It may also work with the Custom workspace.)

Creating the Template

1. Use a Floating window to create a set of script files.
2. Enter Layout mode.
3. Create a tab to hold a file-set.
4. Quit and Reopen HISE (to save your layout).

Creating a File Set

1. Within the file-set tab, create the tabs for your script files, and load them in. (Or, create a new file-set tab.)
2. Add tabs for each script file, and load the files in.
3. Right-click on the file-set tab, and choose "Export Tab as JSON".
4. Paste the text into a text editor (not in HISE), and save the file.

When you reopen HISE, your script files will be loaded. But when you open your project, the script file tabs are reset. No problem — you can restore the file-set.

Restoring a File Set

1. Open the text editor file for the file set you want to load.
2. Copy the JSON data.
3. Right-click on a file-set tab, and choose "Replace Tab with JSON in Clipboard".