That is even worse 
No dispute about programming languages please 
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Thanks for the long reply Kai, good points!
Agreed. If I had an editor that gave me full and direct control over my items (which doesn’t seems such a complicated task) I’d be okay abandoning unwieldy items files. Exporting to items files would be a good reassurance during the transition time, until the “new tool” provides all features needed.
I feel the same way. However I don’t think that’s the fault of Eclipse but of the Designer. Eclipse provides a wide landscape of features, plugins and tools supporting developers and non-developers reaching their goal. While many features and terms like “Mylyn” or “Debug” might confuse the inexperienced end user, others will help in critical moments. I’d argue a modern eclipse with plugins for REST-API integration, an interactive activity view, events injection and graphical editors would be the perfect user interface for rule development.
Nonetheless I like the idea of the openHAB side independent web frontend. Some parts are already going this direction. My concerns are related to ease of use and complex features, especially related to rules. Managing items in an asynchronous webapp sounds like a solution to me but I did not yet see a fully fledged online code editor with syntax auto completion and syntax checking that didn’t have serious restrictions in other areas. Even with “scriptable automation” these features would be important to openHAB users of all experience levels.
I am not qualified to certify that you are right, but I have the same idea for a strategy of development.
Thank you!
BR,
George
Hello together,
i´ve uploaded Version 0_4. Link as always in the first post. Changes i made:
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Port 8080 is predefined if no Port is set at setup
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“Add Item” Form redesigned. Now you can select more than one Item and type of item is shown in list
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Items in “Add Item” Form are sorted by Name
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Items are updated automatically in the main form after “SendCommand”, even if “Start” is not active.
Please test it. I would be glad about any feedback as always.
Greetings
Kay
Works here. When the window is draged to a side or top of the the desktop, it does not resizie according to Windows standard (which think would be very handy). Can you enabe that behavior?
Do you mean the “Aero Snap” Feature which is part of Windows since Win7 ?
Kay
Yes, that’s the name.
Hey @Windrad,
sorry for the delay. Look at the first post. I´ve uploaded Version 0.4a with enabled Aero Snap Feature.
Greetings Kay
Thanks,
Ingo
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Hey there,
i really would like to test this tool, but i´m afraid, that all links are down. Is there any way you could reupload your last version?
Greetings and thanks for your work,
Fabian