Hi Othmen,
Thank you for taking the time to answer. I can certainly see
why you would be frustrated with Pivot based on these experiences. But,
let me say that some of these things are simple to answer, and maybe we
should do better about documenting some things, and ways of doing
things. And other things you mentioned might be candidates for new
features in Pivot.
The best way to know what attributes are available is to use
either the Component Explorer (which you have already explored) or to
use the Javadoc, where the available attributes for a component will be
the "setXXX" methods, and the styles will be the "setXXX" methods of the
component's skin class (which is often the TerraXXXXSkin class). You
are right that there are no autocompletion files for BXML to know what
attributes are available, and maybe someone on the list could help with
that. What development environment are you using? Eclipse? Or
something else?
Also, unlike Swing, JavaFX and probably even Flex, there are
many fewer developers working on Pivot, so you probably cannot expect
things to be changed or improved as fast as some other projects
(although I haven't seen any changes to Swing in > 5 years), but being
open-source, there is the possibility that anyone (including yourself)
could contribute to these improvements, based on things you need.
Please feel free to ask specific questions about things you're
having trouble with and we will try to help you.
HTH,
~Roger Whitcomb
