[Laszlo-user] new visual IDE

[Rich Christiansen]

Bernard,

If 'voting' for the bug request is a prerequisite for preparing the DTD 
for you which is a prerequisite for improving the IDE you're developing, 
then please re-post the URL and I (and hopefully others) would be happy 
to vote. :)
-Rich

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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