I tried installing EasyIDE using PublicPacletInstall from the web site but got an error message. Then I downloaded the paclet to my computer and installed it using PacletInstall with the File option. The installation completed without errors, but then running Format ? Stylesheet ? EasyIDE ? LightMode did not give me the EasyIDE interface as expected. I shut down the front end and attempted to restart, but the front end only flashed and then closed. Removing the EasyIDE paclet from the paclet folders did not fix the problem. I resorted to reinstalling Mathematica. I am pretty much a novice at Mathematica running Mathematica 12.3. I would appreciate any insights.

I find it cleaner to:

• Create a folder named PublicPacletInstall in $UserBaseDirectory/Applications;
• Rename that downloaded Install.wl to PublicPacletInstall.wl and put it in that folder;

• Create Kernel subfolder of that folder and in it put an init.wl consisting solely of:

  Get["PublicPacletInstall`PublicPacletInstall`"]
  

The advantage of this bit of extra effort way is that subsequently all I need do is:

<< PublicPacletInstall`

Good catch! I need to update those instructions.

This is indeed part of the public paclet server package. That's also on the paclet server so you can do:

<< https://paclets.github.io/PacletServer/Install.wl
PublicPacletInstall["PublicPacletServer"]

Then you can do:

<< PublicPacletServer`
PublicPacletServer["Install", "MaTeX"]

Paclet[MaTeX,1.7.5,<>]

Alternately, you can download https://paclets.github.io/PacletServer/Install.wl and put it in a folder called "PublicPacletServer" in $UserBaseDirectory/Applications. Then you can load it like:

<< PublicPacletServer`Install`

Unfortunately, on my 27" iMac Retina display, with these old eyes of mine, I cannot comfortably use Mathematica at all when notebooks are at default 100% magnification. Yet when I change to 125% magnification, EasyIDE's Project and Plugins buttons just disappear from the left side of the notebook's top pane, and I cannot recover them without reverting to the untentable 100% magnification.

Yeah that message definitely sounds like a trip in getting set up. Means it didn't manage to get bound to a directory.

There is certainly an object-oriented API that you can use to find paths, create attached dialogs, notification messages, etc. but I don't have anything to get timestamps right now.

Thanks for the report! Unfortunately by design of the Mathematica front end both of these will be hard to sort out but I'll think.

As for 1) both of those are due to the fact that the front end is very much so not good for controlling layouts. I need to allocate space for a reasonable number of tabs as well as for the plugin menus. But what I can do is solve the magnification issue by forcing the magnification of just those buttons to remain constant. In fact I should probably have all my GUI elements work like that...

As far as the resizings go, there is unfortunately no good way I know of to allocate "just the right amount" of space for the plugins and leave the remaining stuff for the tabs. If I find such a thing I will definitely make it work like that. I could also push the tabs onto their own row, but I need to think through the design implications of that first.

For 2) that's a by-product of the front end failing to set the CellStyle for an "attached cell" appropriately. It's something that I've tried to work around before, but haven't found a good way. There are a number of these front end INTERNAL SELF-TEST ERRORs that very standard front-end design will hit but they've never caused a crash for me. If you find a correlation between them and performance degradations (including crashes) please let me know and I'll see if I can work arount them.

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