Libraries and files (is this an all in one deal?)

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I’m accustomed to splitting up my code a little bit. It seems to me that the IDE wants me to put all my code in one giant “file” – well, one giant text window. I’d like to split it up a bit, but I don’t see any IDE interfaces for it. So then I started looking around for methods of publishing my own libraries, but I can’t find that either. Where are the docs on publishing your own … ah, I guess they’re called nuts?

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At this stage, there’s no way to incorporate ad hoc libraries into code edited in the IDE. I ran into this a while back when I started using the same class in multiple applications: I suddenly needed a way to change the class without having to edit every single application. My solution was to write a local desktop app that ‘compiles’ #include’d files into the imp appliction’s primary device and agent source files. Originally the resulting source was dropped into the pasteboard for pasting into the IDE, but now I use the Build APIto upload it directly. Result: I do almost all of my imp coding locally and barely touch the IDE.

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PS. A little more info on what I did can be found in this Community Blog post.

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Yeah, I figured there’d be some way to do it in the Build API. It’s marked beta, so I figured there’d be some built-in way to do some basic code re-use. OKie. I’ll just look at the Build API early (imo, beta is for beta and I rarely touch it).

Thanks for your replies.

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In Build’s case, ‘beta’ means ‘it’s all done, but we‘re hedging our bets with the naming in case we decide to add something’.

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Ahh. A Googley Beta.