Will the IDE be open source? I suppose it's written in Java. Do you ever plan to make Eclipse plugin?
On Nov 16, 2007 2:26 PM, bjdevlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I'm fairly new to Laszlo, and don't like the (lack of) options for > developing OL apps. I've looked at several tools to see how they can > enable > the development of OL apps (XML editors such as Oxygen and XmlBuddy, and > IDEs such as Emacs, NetBeans, and XCode). None of these tools seemed to > me > to offer much assistance. Given the choice of working with poor IDE > support > in Laszlo or using Flex, I decided to write my own IDE. > > The IDE will be cross-platform, and includes > > 1) a LZX source XML editor with outlining, automatic indentation and > colorization, context-sensitive element/attribute suggestions, and > pre-compilation validation warnings > 2) a visual layout builder displaying the component relationships without > having to compile to SWF, with drag and drop layout, and a property > inspector for each component > 3) an in-built web-browser to display the compiled-rendered application > 4) VCS integration > > Parts 1 and 2 are complete. Part 3 at the moment is only a wireframe > representation of the layout, and is not editable. No work has started on > part 4. > > However, according to this bug-report > [http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-2300] the official OL DTD has > been out of date for at least 18 months (it represents Laszlo at version > 2.1.2). This is going to limit the usefulness of the IDE, since probably > a > significant number of elements are going to fail validation within the IDE > and are not going to be found as options during code-completion. In > fact, > since it is the DTD that drives the property palettes, if an element is > not > listed in the DTD there will not be a property inspector for it. > > I don't know if voting for OL bugs has any effect, but I know of other > organizations with open bug-reporting who do respond to votes on bugs. If > you would like to see a new IDE for OL, please vote for the above bug. > Indeed, I'm not alone in needing this updated DTD: several people have > posted in the forum asking for an updated DTD > (http://forum.openlaszlo.org/showthread.php?p=29210#post29210 and > http://forum.openlaszlo.org/showthread.php?p=29506). > > Apologies if this is the wrong forum in which to raise something like > this. > Also, if there is already work underway on updating the DTD, then my > apologies for complaining about the currently outdated DTD. Also, I sent > this message via nabble.com, and inadvertendly sent an earlier version. > Luckily, since I hadn't yet subscribed to the list it looks like that > message did not appear. My apologies if it does subsequently appear - I > didn't mean to spam the list on this issue. > > Bernard > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/new-visual-IDE-tf4821075.html#a13792659 > Sent from the OpenLaszlo - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- lp, Anže
