[stringtemplate-interest] visualizer mockup

[Todd Stout]

Here's the license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu> wrote:

> heh, that's cool. didn't know about them. what's the license? can't find
> easily.  hopefully not dreaded GPL or LGPL; can't use if so.
> Ter
> On Nov 24, 2009, at 10:38 AM, Todd Stout wrote:
>
> > Using something like google's protocol buffers might simplify things
> regarding language interop.  That route would be more of message oriented
> approach in stead of trying to pass objects around.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu>
> wrote:
> > Oh, and another architectural issue.  Should this be a socket based thing
> like ANTLRWorks so C# and Python targets don't have to build their own GUI?
>  I'd say yes, but then it's harder to drill down into objects in the
> attribute table.  I'll have to YAML or JSON marshall objects across the
> socket.  Some objects like binary arrays might be hard to represent properly
> in language indep manner in gui too.
> >
> > thoughts?
> >
> > Ter
> >
> > On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Terence Parr wrote:
> >
> > > Hiya...ST v3 has a nice XML tagged output that shows which template
> generated which output. I'd like an interactive thing that's easier to read
> for ST v4  I'm including a mockup.
> > >
> > > It starts with a window with the generated output.  As I mouse over a
> section generated by a template, it highlights (one at a time) with a box or
> whatever.  I can collapse output for any expression/template.  If I hit "get
> info" key it would pop up a dialog showing the template pattern and the
> attribute table (an inspector).  It seems like I'd need to detect mouse
> movement over a textpane and then expand and collapse sections (hopefully
> w/o having to do much; perhaps replace the char sequence with a new
> "collapse icon").  Intellij does it but I wonder how much they rely on Swing
> to do the fancy stuff they do in a textpane.  Any thoughts about which
> components to use or avoid?  Any architectural suggestions?  Everything
> would happen in the text pane, except for the inspector which is probably a
> kind of treeview or something.
> > >
> > > Gerald probably has lots of suggestions as he's done something similar
> I think for Eclipse.
> > >
> > > I can't get to this for a while, but wanna start thinking.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Ter
> > >
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