I'm not challenging your visual preference here, just providing
context of how what you're asking works in Component Editor:
- ability to visually navigate the business logic. Typing auto-
completion doesn't help me (although WOBuilder does that) because
in my system with thousands of classes, I could never remember what
the methods are called, not even the first letter.
You only have to know the name of the class (which I assume you have
to in WOB also). Bindings don't require a first letter, you can
complete on "empty" for both left and right side of the = sign.
- ability to drag a business method/action from the above onto a
component binding.
Obviously this just works in a little bit different way with
completion, but like I mentioned above, completion gives you both lists.
At the moment I use Golive for some display-oriented editing-- you
can set up the HTML database to recognise tags like <wo:if
condition="$whatever"> and you can see the structure of the page,
expanding and collapsing blocks. You can even have predefined
attributes (eg every wo:if has a condition) but there is no
business browser or binding dropper. So a Golive plugin would work
for me. I haven't found a way to do this in Dreamweaver.
WOLips' Component editor gives you expanding/collapsing blocks,
predefined attributes (based on the actual api file) [Editor: for
people who are about to yell at me that theirs doesn't do it, I only
happened to wire this up for "Insert Component" .. it's coming to an
element-type-name-completion near you], bindings browser, and
component keypath browser. Really the two things it doesn't really
do the same are the way it exactly shows you the groupings (it's done
w/ outline view and with collapsing tags), and it's completion vs
drag-and-drop based.
ms
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