Re: got tired of waiting for IDE support - new tool to preview FreeMarker templates

Daniel Dekany wrote:
>
> I think many will find it useful, also it would be useful for learning
> FTL. However, the context model should support numbers, boolean,
> dates, and maps and lists as variables. So it should be recursive (due
> to nested maps and lists), and there should be pulldown to chose the
> variable type (that defaults to string).
>
>   

Thanks for the good feedback.  I'd definitely use all these features 
myself and will start adding them.

> I think it also would be good if you can edit multiple templates, the
> first being the main template (that generates the output), the second
> one being something just can include/import as, say, /t2.ftl the third
> as /t3.ftl, etc.
>
>   

I can do this.  I should be to give each template an editable path.  The 
struts2 tags all use includes and my objective is to make it possible to 
paste them straight in without modification (I've commented out the 
includes in the examples).
> Lastly, while an input is edited, and the output is not yet updated,
> an indicator like a spinning hourglass next to the output window would
> be useful. If that's not there, then you know that the output already
> reflects the input.
>   
Oh, that's a bug.  An animated gif is there but it's on top of or behind 
the top-right section of the scroll-bar in the result (depending on the 
browser).
It posts to the server when 1000ms have passed since the last keypress 
or state change and shows the gif while waiting for a response.

Thanks!

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