editor-framework

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A simple framework for making panel based applications.

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Editor Framework

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Editor-Framework gives you the power to quickly and easily write professional multi-panel desktop software in HTML5 and Node.js on top of Electron.

At its core is a modular and extensible package management system and open-ended API that allow you to quickly prototype and build reusable UI components on the fly in a live, hot-reloadable development environment.

Internally, Editor-Framework conforms with Electron’s main and renderer process architecture. To make multiple windows communicate easily, Editor Framework extends Electron’s main and renderer IPC API, making it easier to send and receive callbacks between the main and renderer processes. In the renderer process, we use HTML5 Web Component standards (Custom Element and Shadow DOM) by default, and provide a set of builtin UI-Kit elements which you can use to extend existing widgets and panels. It's also possible to extend any existing UI framework such as Polymer, Vue.js, React, or any other UI framework you'd prefer to use..

NOTE: editor-framework is currently under active development. The documentation is a little bit out of date, but still can help you get started. I will update the doc as soon as possible.

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Installation

Editor-Framework can simply be declared and imported like any other package in your project:

npm install --save editor-framework

Usage

Here is a simple example for using Editor-Framework in your Electron project:

package.json

{
  "name": "your app name",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "description": "A simple app based on editor-framework.",
  "dependencies": {},
  "main": "main.js"
}

main.js

const Editor = require('editor-framework');

Editor.App.extend({
  init ( opts, cb ) {
    Editor.init({
      'package-search-path': [
        Editor.url('app://packages/'),
      ],
    });

    if ( cb ) {
      cb ();
    }
  },

  run () {
    // create main window
    let mainWin = new Editor.Window('main', {
      title: 'Editor Framework',
      width: 900,
      height: 700,
      minWidth: 900,
      minHeight: 700,
      show: false,
      resizable: true,
    });
    Editor.Window.main = mainWin;

    // restore window size and position
    mainWin.restorePositionAndSize();

    // load and show main window
    mainWin.load( 'app://index.html' );
    mainWin.show();

    // open dev tools if needed
    if ( Editor.argv.showDevtools ) {
      // NOTE: open dev-tools before did-finish-load will make it insert an unused <style> in page-level
      mainWin.nativeWin.webContents.once('did-finish-load', function () {
        mainWin.openDevTools({
          detach: true
        });
      });
    }
    mainWin.focus();
  },
});

index.html

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Main Window</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">

    <style>
      #mainDock {
        position: relative;
      }
    </style>
  </head>

  <body class="layout vertical">
    <main-dock class="flex-1"></main-dock>
  </body>
</html>

Features

App Customization and Extensibility through modular Packages
Dynamically load and unload packages
Watch package changes and notify changes immediately
Hot reload your packages
Panel and Window Management
Freely dock panels anywhere in multiple windows
Dynamically load user defined panels from a package
Easily register and respond to ipc messages for your panel
Easily register shortcuts (hotkeys) for your panel
Save and load panel profiles
Save and load panels layout in json
Extensible Menus
Manipulate menu items by menu path (foo/bar/foobar for example)
Dynamically add and remove menu items
Dynamically change a menu item's state (enabled, checked, visible, ...)
Load user menus from packages
Builtin UI-KIT Element Library
Several UI elements are included to boost your development productivity
- <ui-button>
- <ui-checkbox>
- <ui-color> and <ui-color-picker>
- <ui-input>
- <ui-num-input>
- <ui-select>
- <ui-slider>
- <ui-text-area>
- and more...
A ui-kit-preview is included to help you learn and custom ui-kit
Develop ui elements by Custom Element and Shadow DOM
Allow users to customize their theme for ui elements
Can be integrated with any other UI frameworks (Polymer, Vue.js, React, ...)
Well designed for focus behavior (Use our own focus manager for better user experience)
Uniform events (change, confirm and cancel) in every ui element makes our ui-kit friendly for Undo/Redo functionality
Customizable UI Properties
<ui-prop> elements help users write properties/inspector panel
Automatically detect and choose a view for the property by type
Allow users to register their own property type and customize the view for it
Support nested properties (for object type and array type)
Support disable, readonly property in hierarchy
Customizable Profiles
Customize your profile for different scope (global, local, project, ...)
Load and save profiles through unified API
Logging
Uniform log interface for main and renderer process
Sort and store all windows and main process logs in one place
Support log to file
Integrate with console for displaying and querying your logs
Enhanced Selection
Selection cached and synced among windows
User can register his own selection type
Automatically filtering selections
Improved IPC
Enhance IPC Programming Experience
Allow sending ipc message to specific panel
Allow sending ipc message to specific window
Allow sending ipc request and waiting for the reply in callback function
Undo & Redo Actions
Global Undo and Redo
Test Driven Workflow
Integrate node-tap to the test framework
Detect your package changes and automatically run tests under it via tester
A helper module to simulate UI input (mouse, keyboard) to help user write panel tests
Automatically recreate your test target (windows, widgets, panels, ...) after each test case

Development

Getting Started

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/cocos-creator/editor-framework

Run npm install:

npm install
npm run build # build styles

Installing and Running the Examples

example-apps

example-apps is a set of examples shows how to create Editor-Framework Apps.

Installation:

git clone https://github.com/editor-framework/example-apps

Run:

npm start ./example-apps/${example-name}

example-packages

example-packages is a set of examples shows how to create Editor-Framework Apps.

Installation:

git clone https://github.com/editor-framework/example-packages

Run:

npm start ./example-packages/

demo

demo is a demo project to help users develop their own packages. To use the demo project, clone it first and go to the demo folder to install it.

Installation:

git clone https://github.com/editor-framework/demo
cd ./demo
npm install
bower install
gulp update

Run:

npm start ./demo

License (MIT)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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Editor Framework

Installation

Usage

Features

App Customization and Extensibility through modular Packages

Panel and Window Management

Extensible Menus

Builtin UI-KIT Element Library

Customizable UI Properties

Customizable Profiles

Logging

Enhanced Selection

Improved IPC

Undo & Redo Actions

Test Driven Workflow

Development

Getting Started

Installing and Running the Examples

example-apps

example-packages

demo

License (MIT)