[screenweaver] Screenweaver 3 goes Eclipse!

[Edwin van Rijkom]

Happy new year everyone!

I'd like to welcome Lennart Kats to the developers list. Lennart is a 
fellow software engeneering student at Utrecht University.

As part of our "Programming Enviroments" course we've been working on a 
Eclipse editor for Screenweaver 3 project files for a few weeks now. The 
editor will work with 'SWX' files, which are files containing the same 
info as the good old SWS files, but then XML formatted. To give you an 
idea of what the SWX format looks like, I've attached a sample file.

The project is far from ready and still under heavy development, but to 
give you an idea of its current state, here's a list of what has been 
implemented so far:

https://secure.sourcesecure.co.uk/trac/osflash/screenweaver/browser/three/trunk/src/eclipse
A rough Eclipse plugin project setup

https://secure.sourcesecure.co.uk/trac/osflash/screenweaver/browser/three/trunk/src/xml%20builder/library
A .SWX to .SWS converter library that can work with both JNI and 
standard C calls.

https://secure.sourcesecure.co.uk/trac/osflash/screenweaver/browser/three/trunk/src/xml%20builder/console
A windows console wrapper for the converter library to enable the 
converter to be run from the command-line.

I think that new SWX format should become 'the' Screenweaver project 
format, meaning it should also be usuable for Screenweaver 3's successor 
(based on the SW4 low-level code). If you'd like to influence its 
formatting than now's the time to share your thoughts.

The conversion library should eventually evolve into a full Screenweaver 
project builder. This would enable us to for example build Screenweaver 
projects server side, or to create a batch builder. In its current 
state, the converter is already usefull for those who'd like to create a 
better Screenweaver 3 GUI in Flash - for all that the GUI is required to 
do now is export correctly formatted (SW)XML.

Cheers,
Edwin

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