[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