Re: Discovering Pivot

[Thomas Leclaire <ze...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I search a java system to create a gui to manage contracts and providers.
I had a look on JavaFx but recent news are bad news. Next, I saw Apache
Pivot in some comments of javaFx topics.

I just want give you my newbie's view.

An editor, even a simple system, to generate wtkx files is really missing.
Plugins to manage with xml files is also missing : for a begginner, it's
really difficult to write some new syntax without auto-completion in the
ide.

A strange point for me : in the documentation, it never talks about "bxml"
files, only "wtkx" but we have a lot of them in the sources codes. Why ?
What is it?

I think also that more documentations on major changes between versions
could be really usefull. Thanks to such documents, it can be easier to
manage with tutorials or documentations found on the web.
Roadmap with dates for future versions could be also a good point.

Bye for now, but probably I will come with technical questions!

Re: Discovering Pivot

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

Hi Thomas,

> An editor, even a simple system, to generate wtkx files is really missing. 

This is on our long-term roadmap, but it's something of a low priority at the moment. From our experience, GUI builders are something that developers often ask for, but in practice rarely use.  :-)

> Plugins to manage with xml files is also missing : for a begginner, it's really difficult to write some new syntax without auto-completion in the ide. 

Agreed. This is a much higher priority item. If anyone with plugin development experience wants to help out here, that would be great.

> A strange point for me : in the documentation, it never talks about "bxml" files, only "wtkx" but we have a lot of them in the sources codes. Why ? What is it? 

WTKX was renamed to BXML for Pivot 2.0 and moved to the Core library (since it didn't actually depend on WTK).

> Roadmap with dates for future versions could be also a good point. 

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmap-panel

We are expecting to release Pivot 1.5.2 within the next week or so. We are currently targeting late October/early November for Pivot 2.0.

> Bye for now, but probably I will come with technical questions!

Sounds good. Definitely let us know if we can answer any additional questions.

Greg