Getting Started
This is a very quick introduction to Roadmap and Roadmap Markup Language (RDML).
Please make sure you already have Roadmap client installed and running on your machine. If not, download and install Roadmap first.
First Roadmap View
A view is a visual component within the Roadmap browser. Following is a simple Roadmap view application which contains a tree widget.
As you can see, this Roadmap view has a title and body. We can also define a toolbar element for this view, or specify the layout attribute for the view body. It will be covered in details later.
<view title="Roadmap Tree View">
<body>
<tree id="tree">
<node>Root
<node>Node 1</node>
<node>Node 2</node>
<node>Node 3</node>
</node>
</tree>
</body>
</view>
Now create a new file with code shown above or save the file tree.rdml on your computer.
Then from Roadmap client, you can open this file from the menu bar by selecting File > Open File. A standard file dialog will pop up, select the file you just created or saved. You will see a new window titled "Roadmap Tree View" displayed in the client.
If you are running a web server, then you can also view this file by typing this file's url in the Roadmap's address bar, e.g. http://www.simponent.com/demo/perspectives/roadmap/swt/widgets/tree.rdml
