How about using special extensions to represent the
file types?
Visual DynAPI Project: *.vdp (or .vdf, .vde, etc)
Visual DynAPI Widget: *.vdw (or .vdd, .vdh, .vdc, etc)
The .vdw could be used to store the widget's
properties, functions, etc. I guess wou could use SODA
to easily create such a file, agree? IMO it's very
easy and very expandable:
widgetInfo ={
name:'Widget Name',
version: '1.0.0',
description:'Widget\'s Description',
libraryname:'dynapi.gui.MyWidget',
functions: {
myname1:['arguments','description'],
myname2:['arguments','description']
},
properties: {
myproperty1:'description',
myproperty2:'description',
},
events:{
myevent1:['arugments','description'],
}
}
This js object can then be converted into a SODA
format and then saved into a .vdw file. The vde can
then be used to read the .vdw files to get information
about the widget.
The vde might have to include something like a
widgets.js file and widgets/ folder which stores the
names of the .vdw files
widgets/mywidget.vdw
widgets/widgets.js
inside widgets.js we could have the following:
vde.RegisterWidget('MyWidget','mywidget.vdw');
vde.RegisterWidget('MyWidget2','mywidget2.vdw');
The vde could then have a section that list all
registered widgets. From this list the user can then
select the widgets that that would like to appear
inside the vde's toolbox (or widget) box. It's at this
point that the .vdw files are loaded and the
information stored inside the vde.
With this method the vde could list any number of
available widgets but only the ones used inside the
toolbox are loaded.
The toolbox could be placed at the left-hand side of
the vde to display the selected widgets. The user
could then click on the widget and then click and drag
an area inside the document to create the widget. At
this point the widget is created and the cover layer
is then added to it to prevent events from been
triggered
--
Raymond Irving
--- Doug Melvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Possible a seperate "descripter" file.
> These would mean not loading the function outside of
> the VDE..
>
> Like: DynTree.js and DynTree.Descriptor.js
> and put the descriptors in a seperate folder for
> managability.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Tiru" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 6:19 AM
> Subject: RE: [Dynapi-Dev] VDE-0.1rc3 release
>
>
> > Hi again!
> >
> > What i was thinking about is that we maybee make a
> separate "function"
> > for each widget that is implemented to the VDE
> returning the things
> > needed in a nice format.
> >
> > Like
> > getWidgetInfo(mywidget) {
> > // returns two arrays or something with all the
> arguments
> > // needed for the constructor and one with the
> methods for the
> > // widget. Maybee even some general info on what
> the widget is?
> > }
> >
> > Is this possible to do and how to do it, i dont
> know the answer but
> > myabee this solution can be a quite quick one?
> >
> > I agree with the adding of this project to the
> cvs.
> >
> > Regards
> > Daniel
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Raymond
> > Irving
> > Sent: den 23 oktober 2003 22:12
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] VDE-0.1rc3 release
> >
> >
> >
> > See below:
> >
> > --- Michael Bystrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I also wrote a VDE wrapper that lets you import
> the
> > > saved vde xml file
> > > directly into the dynapi, and it will recreate
> the
> > > project for you.
> >
> > Not sure how this works but will look into it.
> >
> > > I also gave Spock a little face lift so that it
> > > doesn't feel left out.
> >
> > Ok, but now I can hardly see the button outlines.
> >
> > > If anybody got Ideas for the add event or add
> widget
> > > please let me know.
> >
> > Add widget should be the last thing that we do.
> It's
> > very complex and will require us to design a some
> kind
> > of header file as Daniel had suggested.
> >
> > I think add events to widgets should be much
> easier to
> > do. Here how I think it can be done:
> >
> > 1) Double click on a layer to open up a code
> window.
> > This window will contain a drop down menu of the
> > various events.
> >
> > 2) The user then selects the event and then enter
> som
> > code in a text box below the drop down menu and
> then
> > click ok. This should then save the text into some
> > events collection object.
> >
> > > And please help debug on windows
> >
> > Will do.
> >
> > Have you ever tried creating a very large project
> with
> > the vde? You should try it and then try saving and
> > loading the project to how it performs performs.
> >
> > SODA takes a longer time to convert a js object
> into
> > string and back than it would a js array. Where
> > possible it's best to use arrays. For the
> DataSource
> > class I had to use to following format inorder to
> get
> > better performance when working with lots of data.
> >
> > record={
> > dataRowIndex:0,
> > dataRowCount:4,
> > fieldnames:['id','fname'],
> > fieldvalues:[
> > [1,'mary'],
> > [1,'jane'],
> > [1,'john'],
> > [1,'paul'],
> > ]
> > }
> >
> >
> > --
> > Raymond Irving
> >
> > > http://www.michaelbystrom.com/download.php
> > > (at the bottom of the page VDE-0.1rc3)
> > >
> > > Michael
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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