It would be great it you could start such a project.
Still, i don't think a standalone swing editor would be the best option
for everyone. In my opinion the editor should be developed with IDE
integration in mind as 99% of hivemind users surely use some IDE for
editing. With this in mind, i think the project should take the approach
of having a "core" implementation that would be IDE agnostic, it would
provide all IDE editors implementations the common functionalities for
the editors, mainly validation stuff. Then anyone with knowledge of some
IDE api could use the core component and implement the editor for that IDE.
Sounds good ?
Domsch, Christian wrote:
Hi all,
Since I am a passionate and experienced (in coprporate and open source)
Swing developer, I think I could come up with a good editor. I once did
a quite similar think for editing xml files:
- The setup was a macro editor for editing macro files. These files were
simple xml files. A macro consisted of macr steps, and these steps were
configured via hivemind.
- The editor itself was a simple DOM Editor that displayed the content
of the xml file in a Jtree. The editing of the file was made by clicking
on the tree and the some dialogs were opened to type in the macro step
specific content.
This solution would certainly be no XML Editor on the lines of a text
editor with syntax highlighting or a content assist. But to be frank I
dont have any experience with writing such an editor. Bu the Jtree
approach could be equivally good, because the user would have no chance
to type sth wrong. So this "editor" would be 100% user friendly in the
sense of taking the technical knowledge of how the hivemodule.xml should
be written from the user. This is like the graphical form editor in
eclipse (the wsdl editor comes to my mind).
I would volunteer to start such an editor, if the hivemind community
would think that this could be a good idea. The other question would be,
where to host this project. I would propose sf.net with the new svn
option :-)
Any comments?
Greeting,
Christian.
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