I'm not sure what user experience this would provide. What kind of designer would the nant stuff look like? Would it be like the xsd editor, or database schema editor, with something like a flow diagram of tasks? Would it be a buff'd up tree control, like the vsnet addin is now? I understand that having a designer based solution would allow for much more flexibility and extensibility in the future, but it seems a little much considering we are working on getting a 1.0 release of the core functionally out. I'm really interested in hearing how this stuff would work, and who this is targeted at, but I just don't think I see it yet.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mitch Denny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 4:31 AM Subject: RE: [nant-dev] NAnt Designer Support > Hi Scott, > > We wouldn't need to modify the existing code base much other than > decorating tasks (and sometimes their properties/attributes with > attributes. The idea behind the design time attributes is not to create > a tool inside the NAnt distribution itself, but rather support the > development editors like NAntpad. Kinda like the way the component > designer features in the .NET framework work in VS.NET and WebMatrix. > > The design time tool would reflect over the task class libraries looking > for classes decorated with the designer attribute. When a task is > selected from a build file the type pointed to by the designer attribute > is created and a method is invoked which returns a UI object which can > be used to build the XML node. This creation method would have some > contextual information passed to it like which OS/UI toolkit it needs to > support. > > If the designer doesn't support that environment then the tool (e.g. > NAntpad would gracefully downgrade to its basic capabilities. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ nant-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-developers
