Have you looked at e.g. Eclipse as an IDE? It has a zillion plugins,
might work for the editing you need.
On 05/17/2016 11:37 PM, David Schwartz wrote:
> Well, the graphical editor is really a facade needed to do further work.
> I’m not aware of any that have the features I need to proceed, so the
> first task is to adapt or build an editor that does what I need. Then
> proceed from there.
>
> I’m after something that gets into graphical software design. That is,
> GUI-based software design. Nothing like I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a
> bunch of stuff.
>
> I have some ideas that I’d like to see fleshed-out that could result in
> some interesting snapshot projects along the way.
>
> Maybe it’s something a couple of college students who need a summer
> project could help with?
>
> (I hesitate to say “interns”, but … whatever works. Except I can’t pay
> them anything.)
>
> -David Schwartz
>
> On May 17, 2016, at 8:55 PM, Thomas Cameron
> <thomas.cameron@camerontech.com> wrote:
>
> On 05/17/2016 06:38 PM, David Schwartz wrote:
>
> Hey, guys, I have a very general question
>
> There’s an idea I’ve had for quite a while, and was chatting
> with someone recently who suggested I set up an open-source kind
> of project for it.
>
> The problem is, I don’t really want to do the programming on it.
> I want to be the architect and direct some other developers.
>
> So what’s the best way to find a couple of people who’d like to
> work on an app part-time?
>
> Honetsly, I don’t care what it’s implemented in initially; a
> browser app is fine, but it needs to read and write to a file
> system (local and/or cloud-based).
>
> Right now I’m just looking to build a proof-of-concept model and
> extend it one step at a time.
>
> The main architecture is an interactive graphical editor roughly
> similar to Visio, but then it goes off into some interesting
> directoins.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> I've actually toyed with an idea like this for a while. I have an
> idea for a project, but my problem is that I am not qualified to
> code it. I'm just not a very good programmer at all, much more a
> sysadmin type.
>
> The only way I can really think to get something like this going is
> to maybe pay for the first version of development, like a cheap
> offshore developer in Russia or India, then make it open source. If
> it's a good idea, if there's enough interest in it, if there's
> enough value in it, you'll attract contributors. It's a heck of a
> lot easier for folks to look at what you've got and tell you how to
> make it better than to start with a clean sheet of paper. See
> https://medium.com/@ienjoy/mcdonalds-theory-9216e1c9da7d#.5b83cmmoh
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> Just a thought.
>
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