Bernard,
If 'voting' for the bug request is a prerequisite for preparing the DTD
for you which is a prerequisite for improving the IDE you're developing,
then please re-post the URL and I (and hopefully others) would be happy
to vote. :)
-Rich
bjdevlin wrote:
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.
