[Laszlo-dev] A Meta-IDE 4 Laszlo?

[Max Carlson]

I just added license info to the readme.txt, and made the repository public:
http://svn.lzxpatterns.com/dragn/trunk/

If you can look into the caps-lock issue, that would be great.  There 
are a bunch of limitations listed in the README.txt - we could tackle 
some of those.

I'd like to get this up and running somewhere so folks can use it to 
edit their projects.  I have a nice domain ready, but my current hosting 
company (dreamhost) is kind of weak for hosting servlets.  I did have 
some PHP glue that used the command-line lzx compiler, so maybe it it 
makes sense to rewrite the groovlets to use PHP.

Long term, it would be really neat to integrate the visual editor with 
bespin, for a completely web-based IDE - with visual editing!

Let me know what your thoughts are!

Quirino Zagarese wrote:
> Hi,
> I modified editor.lzx so that it can work with 4.2.*.
> I renamed setX and setY methods in the hover view to setXPos and setYPos 
> to suppress Debug warnings.
> The caps-lock (which should lock edit mode) doesn't work for me, but the 
> other features seem to be working.
> What's the next step?
> Regards
> 
> 2009/3/24 Quirino Zagarese <quirino at laszloitalia.org 
> <mailto:quirino at laszloitalia.org>>
> 
>     Of course I would like to be helpful. I also have a couple ideas to
>     share, but I prefer to see what's available right now, before I can
>     say silly things.
>     Bests
> 
>     2009/3/23 Max Carlson <max at openlaszlo.org <mailto:max at openlaszlo.org>>
> 
>         I do!  I have the source up on svn.  Folks, send me a note if
>         you'd like to contribute/get access - I plan to make the code
>         for this open source, probably with a LGPL license.  I'd love
>         some help getting it up and running!
> 
> 
>         Raju Bitter wrote:
> 
>             Max, you have done some work on a something like a
>             proof-of-concept for an in-browser IDE, based on Grails. Is
>             that code still available?
> 
>             Thanks,
>             Raju
> 
>             On Mar 21, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Sebastian Wagner wrote:
> 
>                 I agree. I read in the forums a long thread about the IDE
>                 http://forum.openlaszlo.org/showthread.php?p=38753#poststop
>                 Lets see what they their concept is for an IDE. Although
>                 I think I
>                 would prefer to work in the Source-Code, but there is
>                 certainly need
>                 for a graphic-builder to skin the components .. or other
>                 more design
>                 focused work.
> 
>                 sebastian
> 
> 
>                 2009/3/21 Quirino Zagarese <quirino at laszloitalia.org
>                 <mailto:quirino at laszloitalia.org>>:
> 
>                     Hi,
>                     I was checking my mail and gmail showed me this link.
>                     It recalled to me about an idea I've been talking
>                     about with Raju and Zvi
>                     Schreiber from G.ho.st <http://G.ho.st>, a couple
>                     years ago.
>                     I guess a visual composer for Laszlo written in lzx
>                     could be a great way to
>                     make OL adoption easier and to show
>                     one more time what OL can do. Now, I don't mean it
>                     should be a complete IDE,
>                     but just a simple composer, for the following reasons:
> 
>                     Creating a complete visual IDE implies a huge effort
>                     Most of experienced OL developers(users) would keep
>                     on hand-coding
>                     application-logic
>                     A simple composer would be extremely useful for
>                     building UI prototypes
> 
>                     I've been thinking about it for long time cause I
>                     observed visual-design
>                     tools are at first place in the wishlist for many OL
>                     users(and for many
>                     companies evaluating its adoption).
>                     Any opinions about it?
> 
>                     Regards,
>                     -- 
>                     Quirino Zagarese
> 
>                     LaszloItalia Founder (www.laszloitalia.org
>                     <http://www.laszloitalia.org>)
>                     Software Development Manager - Galilaeus s.r.l.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>                 -- 
>                 Sebastian Wagner
>                 http://www.webbase-design.de
>                 http://openmeetings.googlecode.com
>                 http://www.laszlo-forum.de
>                 seba.wagner at gmail.com <mailto:seba.wagner at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> 
>         -- 
>         Regards,
>         Max Carlson
>         OpenLaszlo.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     -- 
>     Quirino Zagarese
> 
>     LaszloItalia Founder (www.laszloitalia.org
>     <http://www.laszloitalia.org>)
>     Software Development Manager - Galilaeus s.r.l.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Quirino Zagarese
> 
> LaszloItalia Founder (www.laszloitalia.org <http://www.laszloitalia.org>)
> Software Development Manager - Galilaeus s.r.l.

-- 
Regards,
Max Carlson
OpenLaszlo.org