[Help wanted] Introducing the Visual Plugin Creator!

I could work on this, but my windows partition is almost out of space, and it is rather complicated on a mac. I am having trouble starting it on the mac partition, because of the way java works and stuff. Good luck, guys. Please continue working on this. I would love to see the outcome!

 

Love you too...

 

This sounds interesting. Could I help?

 

Of course. I will eb working on this more in roughly 3 weeks when I get out of school.

 

Progress report:

- I have a (very lo-fi) drawing of an idea for the gui that I had:



You can add new nodes by draging and droping, or by typing in the name. Clicking on a node brings up an itunes-like split:


I'm not too sure how this would be implemented, but it would be a lot of work. If we would do it in swt or swing, we would probably need custom components to handle the graph syntax tree view, and possibly a custom look and feel depending how it looks.

Also, in hindsight, it is probably best to just use xml as the save file, and not as part of the underlying architecture; It is an implementation detail. We can use an internal syntax tree to represent the graph, and it easily be converted to/from a visual graph, xml and java.

- SoThatsIt : Can you send me the source to the storyboard?

- There is a very real possibility that looms on me... This will be a lot of work, however I am not sure if the amount of work required is justified by the size of the user base. Any ideas? Perhaps just downsizing to a smaller but still useful tool?

 

Here is the download for storboard, <Edit by Moderator: Redacted mediafire url>

the source is inside the jar

 

[quote uid=72296 name="SoThatsIt" post=1707336]Here is the download for storboard, <Edit by Moderator: Redacted mediafire url>

the source is inside the jar[/quote]


Thanks for the source, But next time you make a runnable jar file, make sure you have a main manifest attribute. Other wise it will not be runnable!

Edit: Just for knowledge's sake... To run a program like that, you need to know where the main method resides, and in this case it's: StoryBoardTest class. So the command to run said Program is:

Code:

java -cp storyboard.jar me.sothatsit.storyboard.StoryBoardTest

Storyboard.jar is the jar file, and the me.sothatsit.storyboard.StoryBoardTest is the path way to the main class (With the class at the end).

 

it is an api not a runnable jar, it is to be used by java applications but it isnt a java application.

 

See this is what happens after 48 hours of no sleep! xD

 

SoThatsIt
Seems interesting, and it will definitely be useful. It is really helpful, especially to someone like myself who doesn't know swing very well. Thanks!