Alex. On 2 August 2011 01:00, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> I tried associating XML Editor with .bxml files and it didn't work. It says >> "Invalid content" or something like that. And rightfully so - BXML isn't >> correct XML. > > That is incorrect. BXML is well-formed XML. I do not have any problems > editing BXML as XML in Eclipse.
Likewise, I can edit XML in Eclipse with no problems. If you can post the exact errors we might be able to assist. >> Again, as a developer I don't think I'll be more productive with BXML >> without IDE support; I would prefer to use Java to construct my UI instead. >> The reason - compile-time checking and auto-complete that I get from Java >> which I don't get with BXML without IDE support. BXML will never be to everyone's taste. I had used Thinlet before Pivot and saw value in BXML for UI specification (even though I strongly dislike XML in general) It took a little while to pick it up, but I find it very useful. You might be interested in this thread about a converter tool for BXML. I can't remember if a working converter was made available or not in the end, but if it was you could use it to convert the tutorial and example BXML files to help get up to speed with Pivot. http://apache-pivot-users.399431.n3.nabble.com/pivot-are-there-any-tools-to-convert-bxml-to-Java-td2118284.html Chris
