Re: How about some support for Mono's ASP.NET? :-)

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Re: How about some support for Mono's ASP.NET? :-)
by Eric Laffoon on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @16:29

> I would also strongly advocate for the WYSIWYG support. With a good WYSIWYG I believe you will have quite a large web developer interest on your hands :-)

I guess you read the other responses... WYSIWYG will come. However we are approaching it from a code perspective rather than a "you only want to point and click because you don't know anything" perspective. I have not heard anyone describe the architectural steps we're taking. With sufficient community involvement Quanta has the opportunity to become a juggernaught of an application that does anything and everything related to web work so well it would be hard to offer a proprietary alternative. That's my goal. Because of that it has to have whatever you use available to plug in.

> Joseph from the Kate team is working on providing DCOP bindings for Qt# and Quanta uses Kate so perhaps Quanta will have support for C# plugins soon... The future is wide open :-)

Our goals for 3.1 and 3.2 include the most extensive DCOP implementation imaginable. The reason for this is the supplemental application one of our developers, Marc Britton, is working on called Kommander. What it does is builds dialogs in a stripped down QT Designer with special widgets (essentially prepped KDE widgets) which runs from the ui file via an executor program. It will speak DCOP and also allow for any scripting language that runs in your shell. You may not even be aware Quanta has this scripting capability but you will find it in the configure actions menu. We took the inspiration for this from Kaptain, which builds dialogs from grammers. I used Kaptain to creat custom dialogs for PHP classes to enable me to handle complex 500-700 line data management classes building objects and method statements with point and click simplicity.

While Quanta 3.1 (possibly 3.0) should provide auto-completion for your linked local libraries and classes from the file you are working on the addition of the dialog builder will be nice too, allowing you to structure tasks with tabbed dialogs or create wizards and exchange information and insturctions in real time via DCOP.

Our goal is nothing less than pushing the strengths of good design decsions, KDE and OSS to the point where it becomes a tool of choice among serious developers. I think Mono's ASP.NET would be a very logical part of that puzzle. I'm looking forward trying it out.

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