Danno has been busy revamping the UI, taking into consideration some of the remarks and ideas Romain expressed a couple of months ago. It is not a Filthy Rich GroovyConsole (yet) but its sexier and sports more functionality than before. The same richness should be available in GraphicsPad and that is what you are going to get once it is released.
A curious thing happened once I finished adding the new actions, I demoed the new app to Ixchel (my wife, she is also into Groovy
) and she said something was amiss: a way to export the current script into a full functional example. The thing is that during the talk at Silicon Valley Code Camp 2007 a question came up on how to plug a GraphicsBuilder into an app (I think it was Kirill who asked that), the simpler answer: use a GraphicsPanel. "Sure, but how do I _do_ that?" this is exactly the point Ixchel made so GraphicsPad has an "Export" action that will let you save a GraphicsBuilder/SwingBuilder script to be launched as a standalone application (provided you have your classpath set correctly, for instance by using the Windows NSIS-Installer to setup paths and file associations), so problem solved.On a related note to the Filthy Rich Book, I haven't finished chapter 2 but it has already helped me detect and eliminate thread bottlenecks on the GraphicsBuilderDemo and GraphicsPad applications, so far so good
Keep on Groovying!
