Re: New Stuff

From: Brendan Duddridge (brenda..lickspace.com)
Date: Mon Feb 25 2008 - 10:41:00 EST

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    Awesome stuff Miike!!!!!

    Thanks! I didn't know about the missing Add Key/Add Action stuff
    yesterday. That's great! I'll be very happy to use that. It's starting
    to feel like the good ol' days with WOB again!

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    On Feb 24, 2008, at 9:39 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:

    > OK .. Yeah, I know I wasn't going to add things until after the
    > classpath changes, but classpath management is no fun, so ...
    >
    > Template Bread Crumb Trail
    > <Picture 4.png>
    >
    > As you navigate around your template, the breadcrumb updates.
    > Single-clicking selects the particular element, double-clicking
    > opens the particular component (if it's a WO). There's also a
    > slightly different styling for the sash -- a darker line, vs just a
    > same-color-as-background bar, so it's more obvious where you need to
    > grab to resize the sash.
    >
    > WOD/HTML Sizing
    > <Picture 5.png>
    >
    > When you shrink the WOD view down below its minimum size it will now
    > blank out (rather than just be a garbage-looking compressed form.
    > Additionally, the size of the WOD and HTML portion of the component
    > editor is saved when you make changes, so if you only use inline
    > bindings, you can resize the HTML view to its maximum and you don't
    > have to mess with it ever again.
    >
    > Bindings Inspector (Not Finished)
    > <Picture 6.png>
    >
    > The bindings inspector (ala WOB) is in the WO Perspective by default
    > now (you can Reset Perspective to pick it up, along with Console,
    > which is now added by default). Currently you can only edit the
    > component name and type, but the rest should be coming soon. This
    > refreshes as you navigate around the template as well. Name and
    > type only commit when the text field loses focus at the moment -- I
    > might that to a live update, though.
    >
    > Add Key / Add Action
    > <Picture 7.png>
    > <Picture 9.png>
    > If you cmd-click on a missing binding value in a WOD or inline
    > binding (restricted to keys, not key paths), it will open the Add
    > Key or Add Action dialog. The determination of which to open right
    > now depends on having a correct API file that defines the type as
    > "Actions," or in the absence of a correct API file, any binding
    > named "action" will open the Add Action dialog.
    >
    > I don't have a WOB available, so I just had to guess at exactly what
    > all the settings do, but the behavior should be reasonable. The
    > list of types in Add Key come from your model (which I think is how
    > WOB worked, though I suspect we should support more generalized type
    > selection). You can type any class name in the type field and it
    > will resolve it, so it doesn't HAVE to be an entity name. You also
    > don't have to fully qualify the name -- if it can resolve the
    > packageless name without ambiguity it will use it.
    >
    > If you select Array of Mutable Array of ... and your project it set
    > to a source level of 1.5+, it will use generics on the NSArray.
    > Similarly for Add Action, if you are using 1.5+, it will use
    > Wonder's ERXComponent shortcut "Whatever nextPage =
    > pageWithName(Whatever.class);". I might add a Wonder-specific
    > check, but you should add that shortcut from WOnder into your
    > component classes, anyway, because it's really nice :)
    >
    > Right now the type combo doesn't have any options in it -- that will
    > be coming. So you have to just type the name. If you choose
    > WOComponent or WOActionResults it will generate a method that just
    > returns null rather than attempting to lookup a component.
    >
    > You can also get to Add Key... and Add Action... via the
    > Edit=>Refactor menu rather than cmd-clicking a missing binding
    > value, btw.
    >
    > ms



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