[Laszlo-user] new visual IDE

[Benjamin Shine]

Generating the DTD is a fundamentally difficult problem because the  
laszlo platform lets the developer extend the DTD. One solution, for  
now, is a file that Henry created, lfc.lzx:

http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/trunk/WEB-INF/lps/schema/lfc.lzx

Eventually, we'd like to move to generating this information from the  
code itself. The js2doc tool goes part of the way to do this. I  
imagine you have a source build going, to be doing the work you're  
doing -- try building doc
(cd docs/src; ant users) then looking at docs/src/build/reference/ 
LaszloLibrary-verbose.js2doc. It will blow your mind!

IMHO, an IDE should get information about the API and the  
documentation from this file. The documentation tools that generate  
the reference almost exclusively via XPath queries on LaszloLibrary- 
verbose.js2doc.

-ben

On Nov 21, 2007, at 3:18 AM, bjdevlin wrote:

>
> Hi Wayne,
>
> I guess you are addressing this to me rather than Rich :-)
>
> Fundamentally, the IDE is being driven by the Laszlo DTD.  Hence my  
> request
> that users of this list add their votes to the bug request to get  
> the DTD
> updated.  Unfortunately, there are still only three votes for that bug
> request :-(
>
> I also plan to have the component palettes/inspectors driven by the  
> DTD.   I
> haven't yet tackled this area.  But I think that if each developer  
> provided
> a DTD for their component along with their component code, then  
> DTDs could
> be added to a list.  I haven't looked into how difficult it is to  
> write a
> DTD, so I don't know how practical this idea is.  Furthermore,  
> depending on
> what elements could be contained within a 3rd party component, it  
> may be
> possible to generate the DTD or even the pallette based on the  
> component
> declartion itself (i.e. if the component could NOT contain anything  
> else
> than already existed within the declaration itself, I think the DTD  
> could be
> generated from the component itself).  Anyway, as I say, I haven't  
> tackled
> this area of the IDE yet.  Maybe someone from Laszlo with more  
> knowledge
> about this could chime in?
>
> Bernard
>
>
>
> Epiphany wrote:
>>
>> Do you think that your IDE would support the
>> inclusion of prebuilt components?   I am thinking of a recursive  
>> sort of
>> situation here where I could use your IDE to build some components  
>> that
>> then could later be included in your IDE.   If there were a generic
>> facility for such a thing, the IDE could then grow quickly with  
>> very rich
>> /
>> precanned components being added as each group/developer uses it and
>> contributes items to the IDE itself.
>>
>
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