[ANN] Ant's Nest GUI Editor for Ant

2005-08-10 Thread Chris Clohosy
This is a request to add Ant's Nest to the external projects page. Attached is some XML with the information needed in the required format. For those that do not know, Ant's Nest started as a university project and is now being worked on part-time. It helps users create and edit Ant build files

Ant's Nest build file GUI

2005-05-26 Thread Chris Clohosy
Hi everyone, Ant's Nest 1.7 has just been released at http://antsnest.sourceforge.net and is a major update from the last time I spoke on this list. For those that weren't around last time, Ant's Nest is a GUI that helps a user create/edit a build file. It's aim is to help the user as much as p

Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest'

2005-01-09 Thread Chris Clohosy
"Does this tool not support or something? When I try to open any of my build files, it tells me it's not a valid build file. ;-(" The latest version of the Ant GUI Ant's Nest ("Gigi") is now available from http://antsnest.sourceforge.net and fixes a problem where any comments before the node ca

Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest'

2005-01-07 Thread Chris Clohosy
quot;Ant Users List" Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 6:47 PM Subject: Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest' On Jan 7, 2005, at 12:20 PM, Chris Clohosy wrote: Erik, I'm sorry as it seems I've offended you. No excuses, it appears I haven't dug as deep into Ant as I could

Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest'

2005-01-07 Thread Chris Clohosy
Thursday, January 06, 2005 9:55 PM Subject: Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest' Does this tool not support or something? When I try to open any of my build files, it tells me it's not a valid build file. ;-( -- Martin Cooper On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Chris Clohosy wrote: Hi all, I wou

Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest'

2005-01-07 Thread Chris Clohosy
ing for my exams. Chris - Original Message - From: "Erik Hatcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 4:29 PM Subject: Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest' On Jan 7, 2005, at 10:31 AM, Chris Clohosy wrote: Thank you Rich, Eri

Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest'

2005-01-07 Thread Chris Clohosy
Thank you Rich, Erik, and Dominique for your comments, I'll certainly look into them. When I first started looking into this around May-time, I could not find any easy way of extracting the information needed from the Ant class files. I tried everything, from reflection to the Ant API itself and

Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest'

2005-01-06 Thread Chris Clohosy
data you gather from there. David On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 09:51:20 -0800, Alexey N. Solofnenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SAX parsers are created to work with big files. I think the problem is with what it does during parsing. - Alexey. Chris Clohosy wrote: > Thanks for trying it Alexey, esp

Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest'

2005-01-06 Thread Chris Clohosy
Thanks for trying it Alexey, especially on a large build file as I haven't got any to test it on. If my thinking is right, I think it choked because I'm using a SAX parser to read in the XML, and it just can't handle that big a file. But that's just an idea, it might not be that, I'll investigat

Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest'

2005-01-06 Thread Chris Clohosy
Hi Alexey, You make a good point, Borland does have some good Ant features, however I believe Ant's Nest is more user-friendly. A tool should be independent of the JDK the user owns, true. But for me to do that I would have to bundle the Java 1.5 gear in with the download and that would put a lo

Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest'

2005-01-06 Thread Chris Clohosy
(another one would colapse my system). Would it work with JDK 1.4.2 or you're using those JDK 1.5 features such as autoboxing? Regards -Luis -Original Message- From: Chris Clohosy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:32 AM To: user Subject: New Ant GUI

New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest'

2005-01-06 Thread Chris Clohosy
Hi all, I would like to draw your attention to an open-source Ant GUI that I am developing, called 'Ant's Nest'. I'm keen for your feedback and bug reports on it, as it's being made especially for you guys! As you will see it's largely based around a drag 'n' drop interface and an XML model of