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Re: Cookiie cutter

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Roedy Green wrote:
> I wonder if somebody has written a GUI cookie cutter to stomp out gui
> code for preplacing property files.
> 
> You would create a bit of XML to describe the screen with
> 
> field name
> 
> field type e.g String, int, long, enum, date, time, directory, file ,
> currency, state, zip, postal, province, phone, formattedTextField
> 
> low / high bound
> 
> description
> 
> And it would crank out a little gui to prompt the user and persist
> this info using the Preferences mechanism.
> 
> It would deal with error checking.

My company has developed something similar to this and we are in the 
process of releasing it as open source. Our concept is to add metadata 
that a relational database normally doesn't provide as a DSI_Format 
object. This is set as the property of a DSI_InputField that extends a 
JFormattedTextField. There many standard formats, such as date, ssn, 
state, zip, as well as application specific formats. (An order number 
may be defined as 8 characters, zero filled, numeric only.) It's all 
part of our larger development system that is used on OpenVMS systems.

If you are interested, I can supply you with code. For now the problems 
I am having releasing it open source is coming up with the appropriate 
license and setting up a mercurial server to facilitate downloads and 
feedback on bugs and enhancements.

Jeffrey Coffield
www.digitalsynergyinc.com

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Cookiie cutter "Roedy Green" <roedy.green@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:47 +0000
  Re: Cookiie cutter "Jeffrey H. Coffield" <jeffrey.h..coffield@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:47 +0000
    Re: Cookiie cutter "Roedy Green" <roedy.green@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:47 +0000

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