[stringtemplate-interest] visualizer mockup

[Todd Stout]

The official protobuf version only supports java, C++, and python.  There is
a C# port available on github that is maintained by a google employee:
http://github.com/jskeet/dotnet-protobufs

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu> wrote:

> Sweet.looks like BSD. i knew i liked these guys.
> T
> On Nov 24, 2009, at 10:40 AM, Terence Parr 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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