Share My Creation BOLE - Bruce's Own scriptable mLite Editor

BOLE - Bruce's Own scriptable mLite Editor (https://github.com/axtens/bole)

Requires B4J and Java 8.

Uses a dynamic menu. Path to menu folder stored in BOLE.INI. JavaScript files are interpreted by Nashorn. Most scripts are placeholders except for those marked "(working)".

MENU
├───1-File
│ 1-New.js
│ 2-Open.js (working)
│ 3-Save.js
│ 4-SaveAs.js
│ 5-Close.js (working)
│ 6-Exit.js
│
├───2-Edit
│ 1-Cut.js
│ 2-Copy.js
│ 3-Paste.js
│ 4-Clear.js
│ 5-SelectAll.js (working)
│
├───3-Script
└───4-Help
1-About.js (working)

The following objects are exposed to the script engine:

MessageBox
MenuItem
MainForm
MainText
gbDirty
gsVersion
gsPath
FileControl

See https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/javafx/api/javafx/scene/control/TextArea.html for methods and properties that can be exercised against MainText.

Edit BOLE.INI to point to where you have the menu tree stored. BOLE.INI and example tree stored in bole_bits.zip

Execute jar as

javaw -jar BOLE.jar

If anyone runs it in Mac OS X, please let me know how it performs (if it does at all.)

The menus are strangely reordered under Linux (see )

 

[Bruce Axtens]

Please note:
1. The menu parsing needs work. I wanted to have menus within menus but haven't got there yet.
2. The Linux reordering of menus is weird. I may have to sort the directories first somehow.
3. Calling the FileControl class requires the name of the class to be the first parameter. I don't know why.
4. When calling a method in the FileControl class, the original casing of the method in B4J is forced to lowercase and an underscore prepended. I had to go digging around in the generated java to find this out. I suppose it must be documented somewhere.

 

[Bruce Axtens]

By the way, mLite is a small ML interpreter. It can be found at http://www.t3x.org/mlite/index.html and it helped me finally get my head around functional programming languages. Kudos to Nils Holm, the developer.

 

[Bruce Axtens]

BOLE v0.3

See the script in 3-Scripts. It actually chooses and inserts a file into the editing buffer. No more attempts to call B4J modules. I will morph that script into FileOpen, FileSave, FileSaveAs and then we might actually have something usable, even to the point of editing its own scripts.

 

[Bruce Axtens]

Minor update can be found on github. Have changed the INI library to the one provided by db2000.