Re: [ve-dev] VEP as basis of non-java dev tool

["David J. Orme" <djo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just realized that it looks like this message wasn't answered promptly.  
Please accept my apologies for that.

On Wednesday 01 December 2004 10:40 am, Steven Wingfield wrote:
> We're currently looking at the Visual Editor Project as a possible basis
> for a non-java GUI development tool.  In other words, our tool would fall
> pretty far outside the bounds of the reference implementation.

Can you provide more details?

> Unfortunately I haven't been able to find documentation on the internals
> of the VEP to get a good feel of what's involved.  Is this type of
> documentation available? 

A plan item for our next release is to document our APIs.  Until then, 
everything is marked as internal API and can change at any moment.

> I also am wondering, would the reference 
> implementation offer very much reuse to a non-java type of designer?

That depends on what you're trying to do.  If you can provide more detail, we 
can answer that question in better detail.


Regards,

Dave Orme
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