builder in progress

[Noel Grandin <no...@gmail.com>]

Hi

So I had few days off, and I built felt like doing something Pivot related.

So this is what I've got.

It's an application for loading, manipulating and saving WTKX files.

It's pretty rough in spots, but it can round-trip a file with
reasonable fidelity, can manipulate most properties on widgets, and
can add components to a component tree.

Does this sound like something you'd want as part of the project?

Regards, Noel.

Re: builder in progress

[Todd Volkert <tv...@gmail.com>]

Ideally, this would be the foundation for
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-81, so I'm in favor of this
tool.  I think it should go in the tools sub-project, and I think any
commits against it should reference PIVOT-81.

As for Eclipse, I would love an Eclipse-based GUI builder and think
it'd help sell Pivot to other developers, but that doesn't invalidate
the use case for a pure-Pivot app like this.  If anyone wants to bite
off the EclipseApplicationContext using the AWT/SWT bridge, I'd like
that a +2 :)

-T

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Noel Grandin <no...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Includes aren't handled yet, but I don't expect them to be a problem -
> a marker node in the tree should suffice.
>
> Non-primitive properties seems to be working fine. Not sure why this
> should be a problem?
>
> Nested collections I haven't seen in any wtkx files yet, so that won't work.
>
> Basically, I've focused on handling what appears to be the most common
> constructs, and I haven't run across any road-blocks yet.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 15:38, Greg Brown <gk...@mac.com> wrote:
>> It definitely sounds interesting. We were wondering how you handled some of the issues around writing WTKX (includes, non-primitive properties, nested collections such as list data that you may or may not want to write out, etc.).
>>
>

Re: builder in progress

[Noel Grandin <no...@gmail.com>]

Includes aren't handled yet, but I don't expect them to be a problem -
a marker node in the tree should suffice.

Non-primitive properties seems to be working fine. Not sure why this
should be a problem?

Nested collections I haven't seen in any wtkx files yet, so that won't work.

Basically, I've focused on handling what appears to be the most common
constructs, and I haven't run across any road-blocks yet.


On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 15:38, Greg Brown <gk...@mac.com> wrote:
> It definitely sounds interesting. We were wondering how you handled some of the issues around writing WTKX (includes, non-primitive properties, nested collections such as list data that you may or may not want to write out, etc.).
>

Re: builder in progress

[Greg Brown <gk...@mac.com>]

It definitely sounds interesting. We were wondering how you handled some of the issues around writing WTKX (includes, non-primitive properties, nested collections such as list data that you may or may not want to write out, etc.).

It should be possible to run Pivot within SWT by building an EclipseApplicationContext and using the AWT/SWT bridge.

On Monday, April 13, 2009, at 08:43AM, "Noel Grandin" <no...@gmail.com> wrote:
>No, it's pure pivot code. No external dependencies.
>
>It would feel weird to create a Pivot builder tool using the SWT toolkit :-)
>
>On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 14:32, Christopher Brind <br...@brindy.org.uk> wrote:
>> I would think so, but I'd be interested to know more first. E.g is it
>> eclipse based?
>>
>> We had discussed creating eclipse plugins at some point.
>
>

Re: builder in progress

[Noel Grandin <no...@gmail.com>]

No, it's pure pivot code. No external dependencies.

It would feel weird to create a Pivot builder tool using the SWT toolkit :-)

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 14:32, Christopher Brind <br...@brindy.org.uk> wrote:
> I would think so, but I'd be interested to know more first. E.g is it
> eclipse based?
>
> We had discussed creating eclipse plugins at some point.

Re: builder in progress

[Christopher Brind <br...@brindy.org.uk>]

I would think so, but I'd be interested to know more first. E.g is it
eclipse based?

We had discussed creating eclipse plugins at some point.

Cheers
Chris


On 13/04/2009, Noel Grandin <no...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> So I had few days off, and I built felt like doing something Pivot related.
>
> So this is what I've got.
>
> It's an application for loading, manipulating and saving WTKX files.
>
> It's pretty rough in spots, but it can round-trip a file with
> reasonable fidelity, can manipulate most properties on widgets, and
> can add components to a component tree.
>
> Does this sound like something you'd want as part of the project?
>
> Regards, Noel.
>

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