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Project Explorer

The explorer is currently implemented as a treeview. Other views using netron have been tested but didnt make it into a release.

Information browser

In Habitat all information is stored in the wiki. The information is displayed using system.windows.forms.webbrowser.
The implementation in mono relies on the Gecko engine.

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Currently nplot is used in Habitat. Also look into teechart

Tabellen

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Tables

Currently for tables the datagridview component contained in VS2005 is used. Functionality is not very satisfactory. A lot of functionality has to be written by hand. Within the habitat plugin some functionality was written for copying and pasting. This functionality might be promoted to a higher level. Otherwise it is possible to look for an alternative such as the datagridview component provided by DevXPress.

Reports

A good option to generate reports is to use xsl-fo. It's part of the xsl specification.
Xml data is converted using xslt to xsl-fo and after that to pdf/rtf/ps or something else.
Software required is a xlst processor like xalan, xsltproc or saxon. For the xsl-fo -> pdf conversion apache's fop could be used. Other less portable options, are: reportlab, birt, crystal reports

Comparisons

Toolbox

The toolbox was added to contain some default tasks and models within the Habitat project. It shares functionality with the project explorer. It is a treeview displaying a project. The project xml hierarchy is used to store the toolbox content.

Log Window

Logging is enabled using log4net. This is a highly configurable logging system. Log messages can be logged to file or screen based on the level of the logmessage. The log window is currently implemented as a standard datagridview.

Meta informatie

The rdf is a good framework to build on.