visage-gradle-plugin

What is Visage?

Visage is a domain specific language (DSL) designed for the express purpose of writing user interfaces.

What is Gradle?

Gradle is a general purpose Java build tool. Built on Groovy language but its also used for Java projects. You write build using Domain-Specific Language (DSL).

What is visage-gradle-plugin?

This project is a Gradle plugin for Visage language. Using this plugin you can build and run Visage projects.

Usage

This project is currently under development.

Add following code snippet in your build.gradle and you are all set!

 buildscript {
      repositories {
           mavenLocal();
           repositories {	mavenRepo url: "http://visage-lang.github.com/visage-gradle-plugin/repository/" } 
      }
      dependencies {	
           classpath 'visage:visage-gradle-plugin:0.5' 
      }
 }

 apply plugin: 'visage-template'  

Put all your visage files at src/main/visage folder

visage-template - In future this command will be placed in Project Gradle Template

Plugins

visage Core Visage plugin visage-template Plugin to create visage gradle project with sample application. visage-javafx Visage JavaFX plugin. Contains default current release of Visge compiler/runner and Visagefx dependency

Tasks

createVisgeProject - Creates a new visge project by asking details of project, group name and version. compileVisage - Compile all Visage files. runVisage - runs the calss assigned to visageMainClass variable.

Prerequisite

• JDK 1.7+
• Gradle