Issues with GWT Designer documentation

[hst]

Hi,

I keep getting pretty confused by the GWT Designer documentation [1] that is linked from the GWT overview page. There seem to be quite a number of dead backlinks to Instantiations, as well as erroneous code examples that have to do with the refactoring of the Instantiations products at Google.

Examples:

* this page http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/tools/gwtdesigner/wizards/gwt/project.html displays the screenshot of a .project file, but the sections in the red box are almost certainly not correct anymore for GWT 2.3

* this page http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/community.html states that for GWT Designer discussions one should go to a forum at Instantiations. Only that this forum has now been made read-only, and points to the Google Web Toolkit group.

There are more, but it's a bit tedious to list them now. Bottom line, I still haven't been able to convert my plain ole Java project into a GWT project, and would still like to use GWT Designer, only that the menu items in the screenshots provided simply are nowhere to be seen in my project.

Thanks

hst

[1] http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/tools/gwtdesigner

[Eric Clayberg]

Dead back links? Could you provide a list as I could not find any.
Neither of the examples you provided included any dead links.

Yes, the screen shots of the .project file should probably be updated
at some point although it would not make much difference. If you are
creating a GWT project using that wizard, it will be created correctly
in any case.

The old Instantiations forum shut down just recently (in the last
couple of weeks), but those links are still live (they are not
"dead"). That forum also correctly points you to the new support
location. The next time the docs are refreshed, this will be updated.
Doc refreshed typically occur around major product refreshes, so you
should not expect them to change in real time to reflect small changes
like this.

If you are trying to create a GWT project, I would encourage you to
use the Web Application project wizard that ships with GWT/GPE itself.
You did not mention which menu items you were referring to, but
assuming it is the "Convert project into GWT project" command, that
command is only available in the full version of GWT Designer (which I
assume you have not installed).

On Jun 16, 10:34 am, hst <hstoer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I keep getting pretty confused by the GWT Designer documentation [1] that is
> linked from the GWT overview page. There seem to be quite a number of dead
> backlinks to Instantiations, as well as erroneous code examples that have to
> do with the refactoring of the Instantiations products at Google.
>
> Examples:
>

> * this pagehttp://code.google.com/webtoolkit/tools/gwtdesigner/wizards/gwt/proje...displays

> the screenshot of a .project file, but the sections in the red box are
> almost certainly not correct anymore for GWT 2.3
>

> * this pagehttp://code.google.com/webtoolkit/community.htmlstates that for