Huge update to repo in next day or two

[davetcc]

So that anyone watching the repository is prepared, there's going to be a huge update in the next few days.

The new structure of the repository will be:

api
   tcMenuJavaApi
   embedControlCore
archive
   tcMenuGenerator
   xmlPlugins
font-bmp-editor
tcMenuNative
web-designer (runs at designer.thecoderscorner.com)
   tcmenu-code-generator - the Java code generator library
   tcmenu-web-generator - the Java backend webserver
   tcmenu-xml-plugins - the plugins going forward will be here
   tcmenugen - the react designer UI

So where does this leave us?

The APIs are left as is, just moved into a new folder.

The new web based designer already running at https://designer.thecoderscorner.com will be open sourced, it is to be released under an "Apache+commons" library to protect from third parties trying to commercialise what should be a free service. You are free to run it within your own environment without charge. It is simply a Spring Boot app with a React front end, and if there's sufficient demand, I'd consider making a maven goal that copies the distributed React app into the hosting.

The font editor and bitmap editor are broken out from desktop designer, along with tcMenuNative they make up font-bmp-editor, and the plan is over the next few months to release that into both Windows Store and Mac App Store. It is standalone, not regularly updated, and only needs file access driven by user dialogs. This is perfect for the store. It will also be released under an Apache+commons license to protect it in the same way as above.

Lastly, it means that the desktop designer has been archived and won't be built going forward. There's nothing to stop you using the last released version (4.4.x), it will work for at least a few more years on most platforms without rebuilding. There are nightlies of this and I will leave them for the foreseeable future.

International menus: The plan going forward is that a small python script will be available from here, and it will build the multi language properties files into C++ files (exactly the same way the Java code did), this will allow you to use menu builder or regular menus with i18n. We'll also implement round trip mode in web designer, with these two changes it will work at least as well as now.

[davetcc]

This update has started, it will take a few passes to get fully right, then there will be a release of both web-designer and APIs from this new location.

[davetcc]

This repo update is now complete, and the next version of the web designer will be built from this repository after testing.