Journal for August 2005
Mozilla editor comes out of hiding
Fri, 2005-08-26 21:41 — MichaelOkay, I admit it, so far I've been "cheating", rendering the page to a temp file every time something changes. No longer! I present to you the all-singing, all-dancing Mozilla editor version. You can select controls on the surface, type text straight into the page, resize controls, and drag-n-drop! This is the first you'll have seen of my co-conspirator Blago's work, but trust me, it's been worth the wait.
In other news, saving and loading are temporarily broken. We also haven't exposed many of the Mozilla editor's features, the main ones being cut/copy/paste, undo/redo, styling, and table editing. However, at this point it's mainly just a matter of hooking them up to toolbar buttons.
Oh, and those are new control icons. They haven't been released yet, as they're too embarassing, but if some SVG genius would like to improve them, the source files are available on request.
AspNetEdit hits SVN
Tue, 2005-08-09 21:59 — MichaelI've finally committed the ASP.NET Graphical Designer to Mono Subversion, module 'aspeditor'. It's unimaginatively codenamed AspNetEdit. If anyone *really* wants to play with it, please be aware that right now it doesn't do an awful lot. Also it requires Mono class libraries hot out of SVN. I would advise waiting till an actual release the beginning of September; I'll keep my blog updated with screenshots. Here's the next:
As before, you can add controls to the design surface from the toolbox, and change their properties with the Property Browser. In this screenshot you can also see the new Collection Editor. All of this has been polished, and you can now save the document to a .aspx file. However, ASP directives are not suported yet, and the interactive design surface is still a little way away.
