Gryphonheart AddOns

Code editors

For the coding part itself I do not recommend one program in particular. I have used three different and all of them had its good and bad sides.

• Notepad++ is quite good overall and there is syntax highlights as well as collapsing of lines. However there is no project view and no lookups.
• UltraEdit got lookups and project view, but it is not free (there were a point where you could get it free for limited time) and the collapsing of lines are buggy.
• Wow UI designer. Its good sides is that it got a project view based on the toc file and it got a compiler that notify you about syntax errors as you write. The downside is that it got no lookup, the collapsing a bit buggy and also you cannot have it running while you are starting up wow (atleast not with standard settings).

Other programs

There are a few other programs that might be helpful in the development process

•  xnView is a multi-purpose picture viewer. This is useful for viewing .tga and .blp textures
• Gimp is a open source alternative to Photoshop. It is useful for creating textures for wow.
• yEd Graph editor is very got for creating diagrams and graphs, including UML diagrams. The graphs in GH Documentation folder on the repository is created using this.
• Tortoise SVN A SVN repository updater you can use to syncronize the repository