[Uncleunc-developers] new release of unc up

[Dave C. <da...@cr...>]

Hi all,

It's been a few weeks now, but I've finally got unc to a good stopping space 
and time to put out a new release.

Python startup scripts have now been implemented, allowing population of the 
'scrapbook' folder at startup with any arbitrarily complex object that you 
may wish to frequently use as method arguments, for example.

Most of the time, though, has been spent on porting my system dynamics 
simulator to use unc as the gui framework. The app itself is fairly esoteric 
(although I do use it for some of the work that I do - see 
http://www.eccosim.org.uk if you're curious), but from the unc perspective 
its been a very useful first step in testing out the object-wrapping 
capabilities of the framework. I've added quite a bit of support now, 
extending the ObjectView so that reflection-derived fields and methods can be 
represented either as child items as before, or as properties and methods of 
the current item, in which case they can be manipulated in a fairly natural 
way within the sirius gui. Bean getter/setter methods can be presented as 
properties too.

The simulator can be started by invoking unc with the 
scripts/unc/startdyn.xml file, which will launch a simple and fairly 
uninteresting simulation of a warehouse inventory!

That's all, folks!

Dave