Hi Wayne, I guess you are addressing this to me rather than Rich :-)
Fundamentally, the IDE is being driven by the Laszlo DTD. Hence my request that users of this list add their votes to the bug request to get the DTD updated. Unfortunately, there are still only three votes for that bug request :-( I also plan to have the component palettes/inspectors driven by the DTD. I haven't yet tackled this area. But I think that if each developer provided a DTD for their component along with their component code, then DTDs could be added to a list. I haven't looked into how difficult it is to write a DTD, so I don't know how practical this idea is. Furthermore, depending on what elements could be contained within a 3rd party component, it may be possible to generate the DTD or even the pallette based on the component declartion itself (i.e. if the component could NOT contain anything else than already existed within the declaration itself, I think the DTD could be generated from the component itself). Anyway, as I say, I haven't tackled this area of the IDE yet. Maybe someone from Laszlo with more knowledge about this could chime in? Bernard Epiphany wrote: > > Do you think that your IDE would support the > inclusion of prebuilt components? I am thinking of a recursive sort of > situation here where I could use your IDE to build some components that > then could later be included in your IDE. If there were a generic > facility for such a thing, the IDE could then grow quickly with very rich > / > precanned components being added as each group/developer uses it and > contributes items to the IDE itself. > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/new-visual-IDE-tf4821075.html#a13875231 Sent from the OpenLaszlo - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
