[Ribax-devel] ribax update

[Damian H. <da...@ri...>]

Hi Guys

Here's an update. 

Version 1.2 added the <application> tag as the root element and a 
<configuration> tag as a child of <application>.  This allows us to 
provide plugin configurators.  I have added a configurator for Substance 
and use the Substance look and feel in the online demo.  Check out the 
online demo at http://www.ribax.org/demo to see some of the ways that 
Substance can make the GUI look really sexy - way too cool!  Basically 
there are Themes, Skins and Watermarks (including image watermarks) and 
the colours can be modified by tint,tone,shade,saturation or hue-shift 
and inverted or negated.

The online demo uses only a few examples of the themes and skins 
available with Substance.

Mike has got a small JDom parser working which is great news.  There is 
still a lot of work to do but it is a big step to replacing JDom.  This 
implements the lightweight JDom parser option from the To Do list which 
you can view at

 http://www.ribax.org/wiki/index.php?To%20Do%20List

We both liked the idea of the reflection based approach but the slim 
version of JDom was the easier option to implement at this time.  I've 
got one of those developer urges that is calling out to me to have a go 
at the reflection based parser because it would be such a cool way to do 
it and a real challenge.

Any news from anyone else ?

best regards
damian