Now the hardest part has been done: importing and parsing visual files!

Here’s what I accomplished:

• Parsing of visual files
• Syntax errors and redundancy checks to ensure it is indeed the visual file you are opening
• Auto writing on save whenever you’ve opened something or has saved a new file!

How does the MotifDesigner Visual File format work (.vfl)? (for self programming the visual file)

It’s like XML or HTML (whatever that correlates with both) except the tags don’t end in slashes.
All visual files must have both [MotifDesignerVisualFile] and [EndMotifDesignerVisualFile]. This will contain two critical pieces of information:

• the Version parameter, which you must append (e.g. Version=0.5). It must be inside the VisualFile tag.
• the Widgets tag. Same, enclosed with EndWidgets. This will be the place where you will put your elements here.

I’ll write more of the file specifications if I have more time

Anyway, here’s a video to demonstrate!