how about adding tabs? default is a button tab, second an edit/save xml tab, third might be the description generator below.
..ede On 15.05.2015 13:21, Rahkonen Jukka (MML) wrote: > Hi, > > > > The SetAttribute plugin is nice but I believe that it will be hard to > remember what all the buttons do and what constraints they may have > especially if somebody else has made the toolbox configuration. Tooltips help > a bit if they are defined but it may not be the case always. On the other > hand, all the information is inside the configuration file but in an > unfriendly XML format and not directly available from the OpenJUMP UI. > > > > I was thinking that each toolbox could have a button, for example “?” > character in the right corner of the toolbox, next to the closing “X”, and by > pressing the button OJ could create a HTML help page by parsing the XML > config file. A rough proof of concept is in the attachments which I created > by playing with a XSLT tutorial > http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/tryxslt.asp?xmlfile=cdcatalog&xsltfile=cdcatalog_ex3. > > > > The result is ugly but it gives a somewhat usable result. What I would > improve if I could is: > > > > - Make the resulting page more compact > > - show the real icon of the tool if it is defined > > - resolve how = and # characters in “=someText” and “#someText” > should be escaped in XSLT > > - perhaps add a special help text element into the configuration > file for longer instructions > > > > I guess that programmers know better way for building the html page. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel