[mono-android] UI Designer integration in VS - External tools DroidDraw and Eclipse

[Miljenko Cvjetko]

Hi

It is no biggy, but it will help us to fire-up DroidDraw and Eclipse UI 
Designer
from VS or MD with external tools - design UI faster and spread the word 
bout M4A
faster...

  * DroidDraw
    nice-to-have feature for commandline loading was filed in August.
    Few days ago I got the message that it works. It worked but only
    for xml extensions, so I took the freedom and changed few files.
    Now it  is possible to load [a]xml files into DroidDraw by cmdline.
    No obstacles for External Tools integration...
    jar file and more info short-fast writeups,
    http://www.holisticware.net/HolisticWare/Know-How/development/Mobile/android/ui-design-tools.aspx
      o shell integration
        reg entries to load axml directly into DroidDraw
      o VS external tools and sample vssettings files to import them into VS
        http://www.holisticware.net/HolisticWare/Know-How/development/visual-studio/external-tools.aspx
      o MD config file to load External Tools
        http://www.holisticware.net/HolisticWare/Know-How/development/integrated-development-environments-ides/monodevelop/external-tools.aspx
      o DroidDraw issue-list
        http://code.google.com/p/droiddraw/issues/detail?can=2&q=223&id=223
        <http://code.google.com/p/droiddraw/issues/detail?can=2&q=223&id=223>
  * Eclipse
    Loads [a]xml only in Designer mode only as part of Android Project.
    Cmdline loads as plain xml (it can be used)
    If someone knows how to load xml from cmdline with Eclipse to be
    recognized as
    Android Layout.

These writeups are really fast written - I'm sure errors are there and 
stuff that is not
obvious, though external tools are quite easy - just grab the jar place 
it instead of old
jar (or better test it before with java -jar droiddraw.jar 
Somelayout.[a]xml)

I ran into bunch of problems with complex layouts and am writting 
bugreports to make
some pressure...

greetings

mel

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