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Bug 356277

Summary:	Provide non-XML language and editor for UI definitions
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Aaron Digulla <digulla>
Component:	Sapphire	Assignee:	Project Inbox <sapphire.ui-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	konstantin
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Aaron Digulla

2011-08-31 03:15:15 EDT

The XML to define a Sapphire UI is very verbose. Please create a DSL using Xtext to replace the XML and allow for things like code completion, error checking, etc.

Comment 1 Konstantin Komissarchik

2011-08-31 10:35:36 EDT

The current focus with the sdef editor is to improve its form UI, but we may consider developing non-XML syntax at some point in the future.

Comment 2 Aaron Digulla

2011-09-01 03:35:57 EDT

What do you mean by "form UI"? Is there already an editor which helps to build the XML? I couldn't find anything in the documentation.

Comment 3 Konstantin Komissarchik

2011-09-01 10:58:25 EDT

Sapphire SDK includes an editor for sdef files that adds a form-based view to the XML source editor.

Make sure that you have installed Sapphire SDK in your development eclipse. Having Sapphire just in the target platform is not sufficient. Also make sure that you name your UI definition files with .sdef extension (as opposed to .xml).