Editor: jMonkeyBuilder

[javasabr]

Added properties for SunAndStars.

[javasabr]

Finished working on integration with SkyControl.

JavaSaBr/jmb-sky-control

@sgold
Also, I’m waiting for review of the PR:

added getting a camera from render manager in sky control.

[javasabr]

@sgold

jMonkeyBuilder: SkyControl integration.

[javasabr]

Started to work on updating terrain editing and adding “spawning tools”, to spawn some models on a scene using a brush

[mitm]

I have read everything in the thread but didn’t see anything about a GUI Builder using Lemur, if @pspeed gave his blessing that is? Like how when you add a new swing gui form, the palette opens up with all your options like buttons, layouts, properties?

Or is that something that should still be handled by code?

[pspeed]

@mitm

if @pspeed gave his blessing that is?

It’s open source, BSD license… blessing not required. Go forth and make cool stuff.

[javasabr]

Does Lemur support declarative style of scene structure like FXML in javaFX?

[javasabr]

Working on multi-terrain editing

[pspeed]

@javasabr

Does Lemur support declarative style of scene structure like FXML in javaFX?

What do you mean by “declarative style”?

That’s not the same as “does it have a mark-up/definition language?”… to which the answer is “No, because no one has implemented that yet”.

I just use groovy when I want that.

[javasabr]

@pspeed

What do you mean by “declarative style”?

Something like this:

Getting Started with JavaFX: Using FXML to Create a User Interface | JavaFX 2...

@pspeed

That’s not the same as “does it have a mark-up/definition language?”… to which the answer is “No, because no one has implemented that yet”.

I just think about what can be a result from “scene builder” in the case with Lemur…

[Pesegato]

@javasabr

Does Lemur support declarative style of scene structure like FXML in javaFX?

I attempted to do something like this, rolling out my own widgets on top of Lemur, with a XML layout.

Mermaid: Lemur-compatible 3d widgets

To use it right away: [image] Repo: Screenshot: [image] [image] [image] [image] The widgets come with their own 3d effect (for example, the dropdown pops upside, the checkbox rotates when checked and so on). They are built with old-gen GoldMonkey so the gui is editable on XML, as you can see on the Sample application Hope you like it

The XML looks like this

Pesegato/MermaidSampleApp/blob/master/assets/Interface/Mermaid/main.xml

[javasabr]

@Pesegato

I attempted to do something like this, rolling out my own widgets on top of Lemur, with a XML layout.

Mermaid: Lemur-compatible 3d widgets User Code & Projects

So, maybe I will make something like ‘scene builder’ in future But now I’m working on other features

[javasabr]

ver. 1.6.0
-Updated jME libraries.
-Implemented multi-terrain editing.
-Extended Plugin API
-Added the plugin to integrate SkyControl
-Extracted supporting tonegod.emitter to a separated plugin.
-Updated Settings dialog.
-Bugfixing.

jMonkeyBuilder

[nehon]

@Pesegato

with a XML layout.

[grizeldi]

IMHO xml is still a waaaay better way to make UIs than all that .setXY() spaghetti code.

[nehon]

Well that’s your opinion, but my point was more, if you are going to use some kind of markup langage, there are so many choices that cross my mind before XML…
I shouldn’t have troll, or hijack the discussion, don’t mind me.

[pspeed]

@grizeldi

IMHO xml is still a waaaay better way to make UIs than all that .setXY() spaghetti code.

These are not the only two options.

(sentence)(conjunction)but(/conjunction)(conditional)if(/conditional)(pronoun)you(/pronoun)(verb)like(/verb)(pronoun)that(/pronoun)…

then more power to you.

Personally, I think DSLs are best for UIs. XML is abysmal.

[javasabr]

jMonkeyBuilder 1.6.0: Skycontrol & multi-terrain editing

[Pesegato]

@pspeed

XML is abysmal.

I agree that XML is not ideal (if I were to redo it now I’d choose JSON instead).

However: the whole point of an XML or JSON layout is to build tools on top of it (like Google did with the Android XML layout files). Tools that are intended to be used by designers, not coders. The whole point of having an editor.

This is why I’m a bit skeptical with Groovy: it is powerful mostly for programmers.

Ops! Sorry for keeping up the hijiacking

[pspeed]

@Pesegato

This is why I’m a bit skeptical with Groovy: it is powerful mostly for programmers.

Groovy != DSL. Groovy is the tool you could use to make the DSL.

Even JSON is a little verbose when you just want something like:
container {
label(“My Label”)
button(“Exit”)
}