Starting with Appcelerator
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fcohen
Mar 1, 2008, 11:07:02 AM3/1/08
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Hi App-istas!
Ben showed me Appcelerator at the recent Open Source Think Tank in
California. I downloaded the sdk and have written a couple of "hello
world" apps. Things I really like:
1) Treating <html> tags as code. I'm a long time object and Java guy.
I find the way Appcelerator uses html tags as an entry point to
composing rich internet applications to be very straight-forward and
apparent.
2) Building my applications using Ant. Ant is a standard and plugging
Appcelerator generated Ant tasks into my build environment for
PushToTest is easy.
The things I'm looking for:
1) A GUI authoring environment. I'm looking for something like the old
Borland Turbo Pascal development environment. I'd like to visually
layout the components. Does this exist?
2) A way to write macros. I will be building lots of user interfaces.
Once I build a standard dialog panel I want to reuse it as a template.
How do I do that?
3) A way to summarize an Appcelerator client functions so that I could
automatically generate a PushToTest functional test, load test, and
service monitor. Perhaps a Microformat definition? http://microformats.org/
Thanks. I'm looking forward to working with Appcelerator
-Frank
Ben showed me Appcelerator at the recent Open Source Think Tank in
California. I downloaded the sdk and have written a couple of "hello
world" apps. Things I really like:
1) Treating <html> tags as code. I'm a long time object and Java guy.
I find the way Appcelerator uses html tags as an entry point to
composing rich internet applications to be very straight-forward and
apparent.
2) Building my applications using Ant. Ant is a standard and plugging
Appcelerator generated Ant tasks into my build environment for
PushToTest is easy.
The things I'm looking for:
1) A GUI authoring environment. I'm looking for something like the old
Borland Turbo Pascal development environment. I'd like to visually
layout the components. Does this exist?
2) A way to write macros. I will be building lots of user interfaces.
Once I build a standard dialog panel I want to reuse it as a template.
How do I do that?
3) A way to summarize an Appcelerator client functions so that I could
automatically generate a PushToTest functional test, load test, and
service monitor. Perhaps a Microformat definition? http://microformats.org/
Thanks. I'm looking forward to working with Appcelerator
-Frank
Jeff Haynie
Mar 1, 2008, 11:36:55 AM3/1/08
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Hey there Frank,
Welcome! Glad to see you give it a whirl.... :)
- GUI environment. We currently are in beta with an Eclipse based product called RIA Developer. However, the first version will only support making it easier to create and build applications using appcelerator. We'll be looking to build a more sophisticated visual layout capability however in a subsequent release.
- macros in appcelerator are called widgets. we will be releasing a new version and whole new community and documentation sites next week which will have a lot of documentation, examples, etc on how to build them and hopefully that will be your entry point.
We want to work with you to auto-generate tests that could be used by PushToTest. However, I'm thinking its maybe a processing tool or something that can use the code to generate both front-end and backend tests?
Jeff
TrumpetX
Mar 4, 2008, 10:39:46 AM3/4/08
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1) A GUI authoring environment. I'm looking for something like the old
Borland Turbo Pascal development environment. I'd like to visually
layout the components. Does this exist?
Actually, this does exist. I don't particularly like it (which is why
Borland Turbo Pascal development environment. I'd like to visually
layout the components. Does this exist?
I'm messing with Appcelerator at the moment); however, you can find
more information here:
http://www.codegear.com/products/delphi/php
I used a fully functional academic version when this was first
released, and there were too many bugs for primetime. I'm sure
they've worked through a lot of the negative stuff by now, but I
uninstalled it a while ago.
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Andrew Zuercher
Mar 4, 2008, 11:21:44 AM3/4/08
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Hey there Frank,
Glad to see you posted here, we will be discontinuing the
googlegroups
dlist here in the very near future, in the meantime, I've reposted
this message to:
http://www.appcelerator.org/group?id=13
This way we can make sure that it doesn't get lost in the
transition.
The topic is titled "Starting with Appcelerator: GUI toolkit approach'
I'll respond there shortly!
cheers,
-andrew
Glad to see you posted here, we will be discontinuing the
googlegroups
dlist here in the very near future, in the meantime, I've reposted
this message to:
http://www.appcelerator.org/group?id=13
This way we can make sure that it doesn't get lost in the
transition.
The topic is titled "Starting with Appcelerator: GUI toolkit approach'
I'll respond there shortly!
cheers,
-andrew
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