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What is a good way to develop Dragon BASIC programs?

develop on real dragon or Emulator sucks, because of the poor "editor"...

My current way is this:
* edit ASCII .bas file (with lowcase letters) in a editor (SciTE)
* Drag&drop to a batch file to convert it into a .cas file (with case-convertion -> https://github.com/jedie/PyDragon32/tre ... convertion )
* load in xroar and test

The windows Batchfile looks like this: It's work. But it's a little bit time-consuming...

Somewhere i found a IDE for CoCo projects witch used MESS. But no free software.

how do you do that?

I do assembly language on a Windows PC and transfer; but BASIC... well... I just use a Dragon to be honest. but that's normally only when I'm playing with external hardware so couldn't use an emulator anyway.

Just checking I'm not missing something - why don't you load the ascii files directly into Xroar? why do you convert them to .cas files first? I'm sure it supports loading text files. I wanted to load a program from an old magazine so I scanned it, OCR'd it, tidied up the output, and I'm sure it just loaded fine into Xroar without further conversion. But excuse me if my old brain is getting fuzzy!

Hm! Sometimes it's much easier than i think. (If it's work: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4383&p=9361#p9361 Maybe i missed something...)

I think being able to ignore case while coding is quite useful, also converting to a tokenised BASIC .cas file first will speed loading, even in the emulator, so it's worth doing!

sixxie wrote:I think being able to ignore case while coding is quite useful, also converting to a tokenised BASIC .cas file first will speed loading, even in the emulator, so it's worth doing!

What's about a case converting in XRoar while loading a .bas file?

It's pain to code on PC in upcases. That's why i have implement the case convertion in PyDC. But it would be faster if XRoar can this directly.