Branching in Configuration Files
In general there is no way of conditional branching in the configuration DSL of the tool chain. qooxdoo configuration files are JSON-based and have no “if” construct of any kind. So there is no way of...
View ArticleGenerator: New Compiler Hints
qooxdoo supports a set of compiler hints (in other environments sometimes called pragmas) that instruct the Generator when creating an application. Characteristic of compiler hints is that they are...
View Articleqooxdoo-contrib 2.0 Rollout
The basic qooxdoo-contrib 2.0 infrastructure is in place. Referring back to the announcement a few weeks back, here are the relevant points: Catalog The new catalog repo is online. Tool Chain The...
View ArticleThe week in qooxdoo (2013-06-14)
Manual Search Improved Until now the manual search (input field in the right upper corner) didn’t find words with dots (e.g. “qx.Class”) or hyphens (e.g. “watch-files”) which unfortunately prevented...
View ArticleThe week in qooxdoo (2013-07-05)
We’re heading towards the rampdown for 3.0 / 2.1.2, so everybody is about tieing up issues and writing docs. Rampdown starts coming Friday LongTap Event added It is a commonly used pattern on touch...
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The week in qooxdoo (2013-08-16)
Here comes the weekly news update. Due to seasonal conditions qooxdoo’s sky is rather quiet and stable, with some light bugs moving over it. Forcast: We expect more turbulences coming up this week when...
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The week in qooxdoo (2013-08-30)
For the past week, incubating and ground work were going on, but nothing ready for prime time. So for now this issue report says it all. JSConf.eu For another thing, this is to let you know that JSConf...
View ArticleCompiler Hints in qooxdoo 3
tl;dr When migrating compiler hints from their “#” form to the new “@” form, make sure to start the surrounding comment with “/**“. The Details qooxdoo 3 introduced the new compiler hints which are...
View Articleqooxdoo 3.0.1 released
A new patch release of the framework is available. qooxdoo 3.0.1 includes more than 60 bugfixes over the previous qooxdoo 3.0 release. As a patch release qooxdoo 3.0.1 is fully backwards-compatible to...
View ArticleTool Chain: The Next Step
qooxdoo’s tool chain, the set of command line tools most prominently exposed through the Generator (what you invoke with “generate.py”), is about 8 years old in its current conception. When it was...
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