[osflash] ANN: Screenweaver 3 for Eclipse - Alpha

[Edwin van Rijkom]

Over the past two months, Lennart Kats and I have been working on a new 
project GUI and project builder for Screenweaver 3. We're at alpha stage 
right now, and we've just published some first binaries at:

http://screenweaver.org/update

Not all features have been implemented yet: screen savers aren't 
supported and only 'stand-alone executable' output is supported. More 
info, known issues and developments will be placed at 
http://mirror1.cvsdude.com/trac/osflash/screenweaver/wiki/SwThree/Tools/EclipseGui. 
If you encounter difficulties or find a bug, than that page is also a 
good place to make note of it.

The idea behind the project is to bring Screenweaver 3 into the place 
where a lot of you do your coding --- namely, Eclipse. By introducing a 
new XML based project settings format and a genericly architected 
project editor we try to promote reusability for future Screenweaver 
versions.

The new project builder comes with a wrapper, that alows you to build 
Screenweaver projects from the command line. Batch builds or server side 
project builds can be realized this way.

To integrate with AMES/ASDT we're working on having the plug-in provide 
an Ant task for building projects (we're extending 
org.eclipse.ant.core.antTasks but are encountering some difficulties 
accessing 'contributed entries' tasks from Ant scripts - if anyone has 
tips or a good tutorial on this, please let us know). As a work-around, 
one could use Ant's exec task together with the console builder.

We hope SW3 for Eclipse will be usefull & we're looking forward to your 
feedback!

Cheers,
Edwin