
XUL Explorer is an XULRunner application that aims to provide an IDE for XUL development.
It provides some useful features -
- A variety of XUL "templates" a.k.a. "snippets", which allow you to quickly insert commonly used XUL into your code.
- A preview pane which shows you a live preview of what the finished application will look like.
Neat idea! Except that the project is in its infancy and bundles a barely usable editor which renders the whole contraption impractical.
I have a license for Komodo IDE and find it very usable and intuitive. Komodo IDE/Editor is also based on the Mozilla platform and therefore has native support for XUL. What's more, it already includes a live preview option for quickly testing out your changes. So to fill in the missing piece, I set out to port the XUL snippets to Komodo format.
A lot of manual copy paste later - Voila!
It's in the Komodo KPZ format. Downoad, Drag drop into the IDE, Enjoy.
PS: Use the Trigger Macro to enable Textmate style macro functionality for more hacking bliss!
3 comments:
Thanks for posting this, I've re-posted to the Komodo forums:
http://community.activestate.com/forum/komodo-xul-snippet-pack
Hi I have moved the file to http://freesoftwarefreeworld.com/public/XUL.kpz. Please update the post on the ActiveState forum.
Komodo is basically XUL on the front-end, and Python XPCOM components in the back-end.
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