Virtual Ant released

[prasha...@gmail.com]

Just thought I would announce it here too.

So Virtual Ant has been finally released :)
Get it at -
http://placidsystems.com/virtualant/

Also dont forget to watch the videos of all the new functionality -
http://placidsystems.com/virtualant/videos.aspx

Prashant

[jeevan]

Hello Prashant,

Downloaded the latest version and using it with the 30 day license
key.

But as seen in the demo
1. I do not see c:\ and d:\ in the "folders" view. I see only the
"." (dot)
2. On the right side I can see the list of the files in the selected
folder, but the tool bar has everything disabled.
I wanted to create the "output" folder 'bin' and automatically
have an appropriate target/ task inserted into the build script -- as
demonstrated in the demo
3. The toolbar buttons of the 'explorer' tab at the bottom are also
disabled.
Only the rightmost two ('player options' and 'view properties')
are enabled.

~g1

On Oct 23, 2:09 am, "prashant.d...@gmail.com"

<prashant.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just thought I would announce it here too.
>
> So Virtual Ant has been finally released :)

> Get it at -http://placidsystems.com/virtualant/

[prasha...@gmail.com]

Hi,
Guess we need more documentation quickly :)

Here is the answers to your question -

> But as seen in the demo
> 1. I do not see c:\ and d:\ in the "folders" view. I see only the
> "." (dot)

In build scripts you generally use relative paths instead of absolute
paths, which is why its a bad practice to add paths from d: and c:
roots and we dont add those by default.

However you can added whatever drive/path you want as a root in the
folders tab by clicking on the 'add root' button on it.

> 2. On the right side I can see the list of the files in the selected
> folder, but the tool bar has everything disabled.

You have to 'play' a target before you can perform any operation.
All file system operations would be added to the currently playing
target.

> I wanted to create the "output" folder 'bin' and automatically
> have an appropriate target/ task inserted into the build script -- as
> demonstrated in the demo
> 3. The toolbar buttons of the 'explorer' tab at the bottom are also
> disabled.
> Only the rightmost two ('player options' and 'view properties')
> are enabled.

Again those buttons are enabled only after you play a target.

So in short, to enable all the buttons, select a target in your script
in the 'targets' tab and 'play' it.

Prashant

[jeevan]

Thx.
Could get it to work.

It seems when I save an existing build script VA it screws up the
formating
- I had written my script in the Eclipse ANT editor and formatted
them (Ctrl+Shift+F). I lost the formatting after a I opened and saved
the script through VA.

~g1

[prasha...@gmail.com]

Hi,
When you switch to the xml tab in Virtual Ant we regenerate the xml
using our custom formatter.

Now we have looked at quite a few build scripts and tried to make our
formatter produce code exactly as most people like to format their
build scripts and in 99% of cases people find the resulting xml better
than what they had written themselves.
But it could be that if you have some very special formatting applied
to your file that may be lost.

Then again, the whole point of using Virtual Ant is that you dont have
to deal with the xml ;)

Prashant