[rkward-devel] Subset plugin; Release plans

[meik michalke]

hi thomas,

Am Mittwoch, 13. März 2013, 17:38:01 schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier:
> Well, this is my first "serious" venture into rkwarddev. My resume so far is
> that I kind of like it for generating the plugin .XML.

thanks :-)

> However for generating non-trivial .js, the extra language layer is making
> things more confusing, not less. Not sure, whether/how this could be
> improved (and that's for another day, anyway).

you're right, i'm not completely satisfied with that part myself. you can 
still paste the JS code as plain text with rk.paste.JS(), and just use things 
like id() to get the correct ID. or you can remove "js" from the "create" 
option of the final rk.plugin.skeleton() call and write all of the JS files 
yourself. the package was designed not to force you into using functions like 
ite(), echo() and the like.

i'm still faster even with that additional layer, however. what really drove 
me crazy was checking time and again if i made a stupid error in the IDs, when 
something just wouldn't work...

> I guess, if I continue working on the plugin, I'll go back to manual
> editing, after all. (Blunt attempt to threaten you into do the work,
> instead ;-))

haha, do as you wish :-) but i'm not eager to ever touch plain plugin code 
again. if i need to make changes in five plugins, i want to change five files 
only.

oh, did you try to set "tests=TRUE"? it will generate a template for 
plugintests, which is hopefully of help. a template for a help page can be 
added by adding "rkh" to "create" (there are also rk.rkh.* functions in 
rkwarddev to write the full help page in the generator script), and setting 
"edit=TRUE" will load all generated files in RKWard editor tabs.


viele grüße :: m.eik

-- 
dipl. psych. meik michalke
institut f"ur experimentelle psychologie
abt. f"ur diagnostik und differentielle psychologie
heinrich-heine-universit"at d-40204 d"usseldorf
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