[Xswt-developer] New task list

[David J. O. <dj...@co...>]

Hallvard,

(I know you won't get this right away, but I'm writing to the list for 
everyone's benefit and as a central place to keep these thoughts.)

I had a chance to look at the new code that just landed.  Great work!  
I'm especially impressed with the scripting and style sheet work.

The following is a list of things I noticed still need to be done, in no 
particular order.

- Error handling and reporting:

a) In addition to pushing line and column information into the nodes so 
that we can just output the tree nodes as you suggest, script syntax 
errors are silently ignored, but the layout isn't built either.

b) There seem to be situations where other syntax errors result in a 
layout not being built, but no error reported either.

- Style sheets:

a) I didn't attempt to cascade across two or more files, but I did try 
to cascade within a file.  ie: define a style that references two other 
styles in the same file.  That refused to build, but also didn't display 
any error.

b) I've extended the style sheet test, and added comments about 
additional style sheet things it would be nice to support.

- Editor / preview view:

a) I'm about 95% done migrating the preview code to the new editor 
framework.  Hopefully that will get finished this week and we can:

- Ship beta 1 of XSWT 2.0.

a) Create update site.

b) Write documentation.

c) Create a screen cast or two.

- See if we can get XSWT brought back into Eclipse in the 3.3 time 
frame.  There is some mild interest being expressed by the Platform 
team, and I think we have a shot at it.  This would get us quite a bit 
more exposure.



Regards,

Dave