GLSL Editor program [closed]

Question

I'm looking for a GLSL editor program. I did find some by googling, but I wanna know if there are any preferred ones based on user experience.

Possible features:

• Syntax Highlighting
• Intellisense
• Automatic compile and link

P.S.
I'm not even sure if it's meaningful/possible for GLSL to be compiled automatically (any comments?).

EDIT:
Here's what I found:

• Shader Maker

Answer 1

Try out KickJS's Shader Editor. It currently supports syntax highlight and compiles the code as you write.

http://www.kickjs.org/example/shader_editor/shader_editor.html

If you are running OS/X you should try out the OpenGL Shader Builder, even though this tool feels a little out-dated:

/Developer/Applications/Graphics Tools/OpenGL Shader Builder.app

There is also the GLman, which maybe is more a GLSL sandbox environment than a editor. A good introduction to the program is found in the excellent book: 'Graphics Shaders - Theory and practice - Second edition'.

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~mjb/glman/

Answer 2

I found shader toy to be helpful. Contains some predefined shaders you can tweak and see instant results. All online and covers WebGL, OpenGL ES 1.1 / (some) 2.0, probably OpenGL various versions too.

https://www.shadertoy.com/

It passes in some predefined uniforms as well as up to 4 textures you can hyperlink too.

Here are the following inputs:

• uniform vec4 mouse: xy contain the current pixel coords (if LMB is down). zw contain the click pixel.
• uniform vec2 resolution: the rendering vieport resolution.
• uniform float time: current time in seconds.
• uniform sampler2D tex0: sampler for input texture 0.
• uniform sampler2D tex1: sampler for input texture 1.
• uniform sampler2D tex2: sampler for input texture 2.
• uniform sampler2D tex3: sampler for input texture 3.