create a simple prototype / proof of concept

[craftoid]

I just drew a litte map of how all the little bits and pieces that should make up the processing blocks universe:

I think the first step would be to create a very simple prototype of the processing blocks tool, with only a few blocks and drawers.

To achieve this we need:

• A Simple Language Spec XML (a stripped down version of the one included in OpenBlocks)
• The OpenBlocks as JAR (No need to add to the complexity of the build process right now)
• Translation Adapter that injects code into the Processing IDE (See Ardublocks for a working example)

I suggest we use this repo to create an OpenBlocks jar and dump it in our repo:
https://github.com/mikaelhg/openblocks/

Sample Language Spec:
https://github.com/mikaelhg/openblocks/blob/master/support/lang_def.xml

If it makes things easier we could also use the ArduBlock fork of OpenBlocks, which seems to have added support for language translations and pop-overs:
https://github.com/taweili/openblocks

The source code of ArduBlock shows how to create translation adapters for each code-block: https://github.com/taweili/ardublock

Since Arduino and the Processing IDE are 99% identical we could probably just dump the ArduBlock tool inside the Processing tool folder and see if it works ;-)

[joshgiesbrecht]

This sounds good - I haven't had lots of time on this lately but I thought
I'd try building the OpenBlocks jar. (But if you beat me to it, go for it.)

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On Feb 13, 2013 3:31 AM, "Martin Schneider" notifications@github.com
wrote:

I just drew a litte map of how all the little bits and pieces that should
make up the processing blocks universe:

[image: processing-blocks-diagram]https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/720669/152635/fd81ec08-75cd-11e2-851a-bc324f3764f2.png

I think the first step would be to create a very simple prototype of the
processing blocks tool, with only a few blocks and drawers.

To achieve this we need:

• A Simple Language Spec XML (a stripped down version of the one
  included in OpenBlocks)
• The OpenBlocks as JAR (No need to add to the complexity of the build
  process right now)
• Translation Adapter that injects code into the Processing IDE (See
  Ardublocks for a working example)

I suggest we use this repo to create an OpenBlocks jar and dump it in our
repo:
https://github.com/mikaelhg/openblocks/

Sample Language Spec:
https://github.com/mikaelhg/openblocks/blob/master/support/lang_def.xml

If it makes things easier we could also use the ArduBlock fork of
OpenBlocks, which seems to have added support for language translations and
pop-overs:
https://github.com/taweili/openblocks

The source code of ArduBlock shows how to create translation adapters for
each code-block: https://github.com/taweili/ardublock

Since Arduino and the Processing IDE are 99% identical we could probably
just dump the ArduBlock tool inside the Processing tool folder and see if
it works ;-)

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[craftoid]

Go ahead! I'm not a maven expert myself, so I found this to be quite helpful:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2022032/building-a-runnable-jar-with-maven-2

You can run mvn assembly:assembly inside the openblocks repo to get the complete jar with all dependencies
The resulting target/openblocks-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar is about 2.3 MB in size,
including jfree and jfreechart...

[craftoid]

Oops, now you don't need to do it anymore ;-)
Should I just dump it in our repo, so you can try to included it inside eclipse?

[craftoid]

Okay, jars added.
Let me know if you get something to work inside eclipse!

[joshgiesbrecht]

Ha, excellent! Now to switch from wrestling with git, to wrestling with eclipse ...

[craftoid]

Hehe :) This is the good thing about this project.
I'm sure we're going to learn a lot while doing it.

[joshgiesbrecht]

I've got a bare-bones thing nearly working but I can't get the compiled tool to find lang_def.xml. I've started staring at the sample code in the tool-template's data folder README to compare and see what's going on and how to get it to bundle the .xml file along with the tool.

I could put in a pull request for my not-quite-working version if you're interested. Not sure if I'll have more time today or not.

[craftoid]

Very good! I just created a feature branch called prototype.
I can pull your stuff in, and once it is working I'll merge it back into the master branch.