Hi Steven, can I give some contribution helping this project of yours coz its been quite long time since I use Java and I'm really keen to do Java programming again if you give me a chance by helping your Midgard IDE project :) And happy new year to you all midgarders
Regards, -- Uung H.R Bhuwono Visuacommunika Digital Media http://www.vc-digital.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo Messenger : bhuwono MSN Messenger : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber Messenger : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone Number : +62 815 8000385 Hail The Revolution...!!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Sobol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Midgard Users list" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 2:23 PM Subject: [midgard-user] Midgard IDE > OK. Been thinking things through, and here's my plan for this beast. > > **Will be written in Java, allowing the program to run on many platforms > without rewriting. > > **Will use the Eclipse Project's Standard Widgets Toolkit > (http://www.eclipse.org/swt/) instead of Swing for GUI widgets. I fully > understand that this means that we'll lose some cross-platform compatibillity. > I'm OK with that. Swing is a huge, slow, memory-munching beast -- that's the > tradeoff you have to deal with when you don't rely on the operating system to > draw most of your widgets as SWT does. We'll still be able to run the IDE on > Windows and Mac OSX as well as any Unixish system that can run Motif or GTK. > (The Eclipse IDE, which uses SWT, is currently available in Windows, > Linux/Motif, Linux/GTK, Solaris/Motif, AIX/Motif, HPUX/Motif, and Mac OSX > flavors, so I am confident that we'll be covered on all of the major platforms.) > > **Will use the Mozilla Foundation's JRex project (http://jrex.mozdev.org/). > JRex is a Java wrapper for the Gecko Runtime Environment (GRE). The use of JRex > will allow us to embed a browser within the IDE. The embedded browser will be > used to preview pages, and will also be used to do WYSIWYG editing. > > I'm using OSCOM's Kupu for another project (a website that requires online > editing). I'm planning on taking some chunks of the Javascript code out of Kupu > and using them as a base for the editor in the IDE. Now here's the cool thing: > it appears that you can load an HTML document and manipulate it using JRex's > DOM functionality. So, this part should be relatively simple. > > **Will speak to the Midgard server using SOAP, which means I need to upgrade my > server to 1.6.0. :P > > **Will be called MidGuiIDE. Pronounced "Mid-Guide." I'm willing to take > suggestions for other names but quite frankly, I think I came up with a good > one. ;) > > Thoughts, suggestions, comments, rants, flames welcome. My long-term goal is to > make this an official Midgard project, so I want community input. > > Happy New Year, > **SJS > > -- > JustThe.net Internet & New Media Services, http://JustThe.net/ > Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / 888.480.4NET (4638) / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PGP Key available from your friendly local key server (0xE3AE35ED) > Apple Valley, California Nothing scares me anymore. I have three kids. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
