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[Dynapi-Dev] Making progress on a Java gui tool

[Dan S. <dy...@fu...>]

Just wanted to let you guys know I'm taking on the task of getting a basic foundation laid down for a DynAPI authoring tool in Java.  I'm not a professional Java programmer but capable of getting a good start to the app.  Hopefully after I get the initial code working, others can pick away at my code and get it set up for more functionality to be added.  As well to see if this is something worthwhile putting more effort into.

I might not get to the point of saving/loading files before releasing the code, perhaps someone else can handle that part while I concentrate on the interface.

It will initally just be a like a drawing program that only draws rectangles, selects between them, resizes, and colors them.  In the back of my mind I've thought of a few ways to handle nested layers.  I know that I didn't like how Dreamwaver did it and sure I can come up with something more suitable for this app.  It should be quite easy to add support for adding image and text support (althought I don't know how to add wrapping text using the 2D API).  I also don't know how adding widgets should be done yet either. 

I'm reusing a lot of code that I wrote for my imagemap program, so up to this point it's been going very quickly. I could probably get something out the door in a day or 2, I'll be away for all next week so I want to have something that others can look at and play with before then. 

Just wanted to update ya.

Dan

Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Making progress on a Java gui tool

[Doug M. <do...@cr...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Steinman" <dy...@fu...>
To: <dyn...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 6:58 PM
Subject: [Dynapi-Dev] Making progress on a Java gui tool


> Just wanted to let you guys know I'm taking on the task of getting a basic
foundation laid down for a DynAPI authoring tool in Java.  I'm not a
professional Java programmer but capable of getting a good start to the app.
Hopefully after I get the initial code working, others can pick away at my
code and get it set up for more functionality to be added.  As well to see
if this is something worthwhile putting more effort into.

Be Sure to comment and document your code thorughly..
That's the one thing that REALLY bugs me about working with the DynAPI - the
lack of internal documentation (comments)

>
> I might not get to the point of saving/loading files before releasing the
code, perhaps someone else can handle that part while I concentrate on the
interface.
>
> It will initally just be a like a drawing program that only draws
rectangles, selects between them, resizes, and colors them.  In the back of
my mind I've thought of >a few ways to handle nested layers.  I know that I
didn't like how Dreamwaver did it and sure I can come up with something more
suitable for this app.  It should >be quite easy to add support for adding
image and text support (althought I don't know how to add wrapping text
using the 2D API).

get the font width (not sure how)
myRect.width / FontWidth = NumberOfCharsWide
so let's say the above returned 15 then we insert a '\n' after each 15
chars...
This will simulate wrapping text..
(I hope)

> I also don't know how adding widgets should be done yet either.
>
> I'm reusing a lot of code that I wrote for my imagemap program, so up to
this point it's been going very quickly. I could probably get something out
the door in a day or 2, I'll be away for all next week so I want to have
something that others can look at and play with before then.
>
> Just wanted to update ya.
>
> Dan
>
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Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Making progress on a Java gui tool

[Raymond S. <dst...@or...>]

I was beginning to wonder where Dan went off to, now we know.  It does
appear that we've created a bit of a two headed hydra here, as others
mentioned might happen.  Dan's off working on a DynBuilder while other
pontificate about the holy-grail of RAD tools to speed up "the still bugged
version of DynAPI2" that hasn't had a refresh since November of 2000.

While I do my best to muddle thru this code and help Robert debug this stuff
I fear I submit about as much confusion as contribution.  But I get the
feeling that others are not really 'actively debugging' the current CVS.
Dan's working on a GUI which he will 'share' with us, thus allowing us to
further defocus our efforts while other do grand debate on what this "thing"
should be.

It would be nice to, at a minimum, clean up the current base code in the CVS
before we defocus the limited masses even more.

Sorry for the rant.  But ALOT of change was introduced with precreate and
inline creation integration that still needs to be cleaned up.  It seems the
only really active debugger right now is Robert and Pascal (on a limited
basis).

[Dynapi-Dev] Issues, remaining

[Raymond S. <dst...@or...>]

These are remaining issues, that I know of.

1) Event problems.  None of my widgets 'on mouseover' work right now in IE
or NS since precreation was introduced.  If you test ButtonImage you can see
what I mean.  Also, this widget is throwing an error at line 49 (I believe)
in NS.  Line 49 is related to setImage with a boolean for checkbox vs not a
check box.

This might be related to removal of get.component methods.  Worked in IE til
I updated them to the new methods.  But I am not sure what replaced this, so
I have to go back and read up on alot of code I am unfamiliar with.

2) Scrollpane currently doesn't render knobs and bars in IE5.5 on Inw ME.
Works fine in NS.

3) Select text Label issues (ie) in child elements.  Pascal mentioned he was
working on this last night.

4) Hard to explain this one but it might provide clues as to where to look.
I had a viewport widget with an oversized image element (content).  I used a
series of moveTo's to window a portion of the element in a viewport.  All
worked wonderous til recent updates, now moveTo does nothing.  I fixed this
by dumping the viewport and using a clipped dynlayer with moveTo's.  Might
be related to auto-size detection, just a guess.

Later

Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Making progress on a Java gui tool

[Doug M. <do...@cr...>]

How do I get access to the CVS system..
I've fixed a few bugs myself..
Such as the 'movebility' of the skinwindow.
I also updated the doDock mothod of the skintoolbar.
Now calling doDock(0) will dock the toolbar at the top.
(re-position it and set it's width)
and passing a 1 instead will dock it at the bottom.
I am also working on an elatic object..
What this does is resizes and repositions the content on your page for any
browser size.. and automatically does so when you change the size of the
browser..


Assuming I do get access to CVS..
Is the bug list at sourceforge complete?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Smith" <dst...@or...>
To: <dyn...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Making progress on a Java gui tool


> I was beginning to wonder where Dan went off to, now we know.  It does
> appear that we've created a bit of a two headed hydra here, as others
> mentioned might happen.  Dan's off working on a DynBuilder while other
> pontificate about the holy-grail of RAD tools to speed up "the still
bugged
> version of DynAPI2" that hasn't had a refresh since November of 2000.
>
> While I do my best to muddle thru this code and help Robert debug this
stuff
> I fear I submit about as much confusion as contribution.  But I get the
> feeling that others are not really 'actively debugging' the current CVS.
> Dan's working on a GUI which he will 'share' with us, thus allowing us to
> further defocus our efforts while other do grand debate on what this
"thing"
> should be.
>
> It would be nice to, at a minimum, clean up the current base code in the
CVS
> before we defocus the limited masses even more.
>
> Sorry for the rant.  But ALOT of change was introduced with precreate and
> inline creation integration that still needs to be cleaned up.  It seems
the
> only really active debugger right now is Robert and Pascal (on a limited
> basis).
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Dynapi-Dev mailing list
> Dyn...@li...
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/dynapi-dev

Re[2]: [Dynapi-Dev] Making progress on a Java gui tool

[Robert R. <rra...@ya...>]

As far as I know none of those widgets are in CVS.  Aren't those
Pascal's widgets?

-- 
// Robert Rainwater

On 1/10/2001, 6:02:56 PM EST, Doug wrote about "[Dynapi-Dev] Making progress on a Java gui tool":

> How do I get access to the CVS system..
> I've fixed a few bugs myself..
> Such as the 'movebility' of the skinwindow.
> I also updated the doDock mothod of the skintoolbar.
> Now calling doDock(0) will dock the toolbar at the top.
> (re-position it and set it's width)
> and passing a 1 instead will dock it at the bottom.
> I am also working on an elatic object..
> What this does is resizes and repositions the content on your page for any
> browser size.. and automatically does so when you change the size of the
> browser..


> Assuming I do get access to CVS..
> Is the bug list at sourceforge complete?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Raymond Smith" <dst...@or...>
> To: <dyn...@li...>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 1:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Making progress on a Java gui tool


>> I was beginning to wonder where Dan went off to, now we know.  It does
>> appear that we've created a bit of a two headed hydra here, as others
>> mentioned might happen.  Dan's off working on a DynBuilder while other
>> pontificate about the holy-grail of RAD tools to speed up "the still
> bugged
>> version of DynAPI2" that hasn't had a refresh since November of 2000.
>>
>> While I do my best to muddle thru this code and help Robert debug this
> stuff
>> I fear I submit about as much confusion as contribution.  But I get the
>> feeling that others are not really 'actively debugging' the current CVS.
>> Dan's working on a GUI which he will 'share' with us, thus allowing us to
>> further defocus our efforts while other do grand debate on what this
> "thing"
>> should be.
>>
>> It would be nice to, at a minimum, clean up the current base code in the
> CVS
>> before we defocus the limited masses even more.
>>
>> Sorry for the rant.  But ALOT of change was introduced with precreate and
>> inline creation integration that still needs to be cleaned up.  It seems
> the
>> only really active debugger right now is Robert and Pascal (on a limited
>> basis).
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Dynapi-Dev mailing list
>> Dyn...@li...
>> http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/dynapi-dev


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