[Dynapyide-developer] Just an update.

[Creighton K. <cki...@ho...>]

I have spent this weekend going over the code for Jedit and some other open
source editors.  By the way, most of the other editors that are written in
java have Jedit as their core engine (Interesting???).  It seems we are the
very first to attempt an open source DHTML wysiwyg editor in java.  I think
we can borrow a lot of the architecture from Jedit as far as event bus,
plug-ins and class-loading are concerned.  Where we need to concentrate our
efforts now is design.  What can we use from jedit and what does not suit
graphical editor.  I spend a lot of time poring over code I have some very
good ideas of what the architecture of the main components are going to have
to be.  The largest and most difficult is going to be the layout manager
used in the design view.  All of the other pieces can be written or borrowed
from Jedit or others relatively easily.  Jason, I want to talk some things
over with you about the main design view element.  I think I am going to
email the creator of Jedit and see if he knows of anyone who has tried to
use their architecture for a graphical editor.  If anyone wants to
understand where I am looking to take us next, spend some time looking at
Jedit's code.  Pay special attention to the way plug-ins are written and how
they are actually implemented in Jedit (note: description of writing a
plug-in is in Jedits user manual  & you can check out the EditPlugin and
EBPlugin code in the source tree.  Also look at the EditBus source.)  I
think we should plan to implement the whole system as a bunch of plug-ins
that add and remove messages from a bus.   This will allow us to work
separately on different sections with out having duplication of work.
 
-- Javier I looked over the graphics and I think we are, for the beginning,
going to have to use the System buttons (Mainly due to differences with mac,
unix, and windows).  However icons for the buttons look good and I will see
if I can implement those into the test browser, okay.  If you have a splash
screen I'd like to see it.  
 
P.S. I also found an interesting embedded implementation of Rhino in a text
editor called Jext.
P.S.S. I have the editor working with file save and file load.  I also got
copy and past working.  
 
 
Creighton