On 05/09/2007, at 6:42, Mike Schrag wrote:
- the ability to see, in a graphical way, what components are
contained in other components, what they are, and (for simple
things like conditionals), what their main binding is. Using
WOBuilder with a complex component I can see what I need in less
than a second, while it sometimes takes minutes in Eclipse to do
the same thing. Although viewing tables is much easier this way,
that's not the important thing. I don't need to see how the page
will look-- I want to see the component hierarchy in a graphical way.
Just personal preference on this one ... I find the exact
opposite. We don't do almost any table layout, and opening a
complex css-laid-out component in WOBuilder appears to me to be
unintelligible. Component editor in Eclipse shows both an outline
view of your components as well as the collapsible HTML editor with
rollovers that show the span of each tag. But this has been
debated to death, so I'm leaving this at "personal preference."
Perhaps something is broken in my WOLips setup. But the outline view
of my component never shows any rollovers. The only connection I can
find is that when I click on the outline, it takes me to that
component in the HTML pane. But that's the wrong way for me.
A typical task is that a customer has asked for another input field,
and I know that it's somewhere near the text "Product Title:" in the
component. So in WOBuilder I just search on that text, and I'm
immediately shown a page full of 2D widgets representing the
components near there, and I can instantly identify the text fields,
conditionals, repetitions and so on, and if I like I can just click
on a <div> surrounding a similar input field, its label,
conditionals, styles etc, and paste a copy nearby, then chenge the
bindings and text to suit the new attribute.
In the WOLips Component Editor, I can twiddle on the outline view
forever without finding the location I want. And it doesn't show the
important contextual "Product Title:" clue. And since I can't (or
don't know how to) get from the HTML pane to a specific place in the
outline editor, I'm stuck.
Am I missing something stupidly simple?
- the ability to cut or copy a whole group of elements and paste
them somewhere else, bindings and all.
This could definitely be added into component editor ... I can
pretty easily, I think, track the associated wod bindings when you
cut HTML and autocut/copy related wod entries.
That would be fantastic-- if you could copy/paste as well as cut/
paste and it looked after renaming the objects in the case of a copy.
Oh-- and it didn't lose the quoted values like WOBuilder does.
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