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Re: WOBuilder Replacement
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Re: WOBuilder Replacement


  • Subject: Re: WOBuilder Replacement
  • From: Mike Schrag <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 09:51:04 -0400

I'm not challenging your visual preference here, just providing context of how what you're asking works in Component Editor:

- ability to visually navigate the business logic. Typing auto- completion doesn't help me (although WOBuilder does that) because in my system with thousands of classes, I could never remember what the methods are called, not even the first letter.
You only have to know the name of the class (which I assume you have to in WOB also). Bindings don't require a first letter, you can complete on "empty" for both left and right side of the = sign.

- ability to drag a business method/action from the above onto a component binding.
Obviously this just works in a little bit different way with completion, but like I mentioned above, completion gives you both lists.

At the moment I use Golive for some display-oriented editing-- you can set up the HTML database to recognise tags like <wo:if condition="$whatever"> and you can see the structure of the page, expanding and collapsing blocks. You can even have predefined attributes (eg every wo:if has a condition) but there is no business browser or binding dropper. So a Golive plugin would work for me. I haven't found a way to do this in Dreamweaver.
WOLips' Component editor gives you expanding/collapsing blocks, predefined attributes (based on the actual api file) [Editor: for people who are about to yell at me that theirs doesn't do it, I only happened to wire this up for "Insert Component" .. it's coming to an element-type-name-completion near you], bindings browser, and component keypath browser. Really the two things it doesn't really do the same are the way it exactly shows you the groupings (it's done w/ outline view and with collapsing tags), and it's completion vs drag-and-drop based.

ms

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