[jsword-devel] Activity report

[Mark Goodwin]

Unless you guys would like me to look at something else, I'm going to
familiarise myself with installing scarab.

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 06:02:45 -0400, DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> So we don't step on each other's toes, I thought I'd say what I am
> working on. Basically, I am looking at doing easy stuff.
> 1) More whitespace cleanup. Getting rid of trailing whitespace on lines.
> 2) Add popup to tab. (Thanks Joe for the SwingUtilites advice. Now it
> pops up only on the tab, not on the content)
> 3) Show/hide of Passage Sidebar.
> 4) Fix of the LAF option and general cleanup of LookAndFeelUtil.
> 5) Simplified the tooltip for search. (Hopefully, this can go into help)
> 6) Made Bible selection combo a better size. It now is as wide as the
> widest book it contains and it is a lot shorter.
> 7) Changed "New Window" to "New Bible View"
> 8) Changed the "..." button on the Passage Lookup card. Also
> repositioned the "Go" Button to not move when flipping between "modes".
> I also tightened the display of the entry widgets a bit.
> 9) Make the readings prettier.
> 
> Joe, let me know when you are ready for this. I assume we should wait
> until 0.9.8 is released.
> 
> Several have suggested putting a close button on the JTabbedPane. I have
> looked through the code and googled for solutions. It is not easy. I can
> put one on the container holding the JTabbedPane. And using
> GridBagLayout I can have it on top of  the JTabbed pane. So it will look
> like it should unless too many tabs are opened up. Then it floats over
> the upper rightmost tab.
> 
> In the bug parade there is a RFE that arbitrary components can be used
> for tab labels. It is "work in progress" and slated for tiger, whenever
> that is. So I suggest that we wait until then. Hopefully the popup will
> suffice until then.
> 
> Next steps:
> I am thinking about splitting out the BibleView management out of
> Desktop and into its own class. The idea is to have one class be
> responsible for hooking things together and the other class responsible
> for doing work. I have done this before and it significantly simplifies
> the startup code.
> 
> I would also like to tackle the Installer issues:
> 1) Initial startup wizard when nothing is installed. (Joe, you have the
> start of this)
> 2) More intuitive layout of the page. (The change fo the labels is a
> good start)
> 3) Request for permission to access internet.
> 4) Automatically getting the mods.d.tar.gz. (Refresh issue)
> 5) Checking for changes periodically and notify user of new materials.
> 6) Add language as a filter and as a level to the tree.
> 7) Fix the display of the conf. It does not wrap when it should. And
> when I had it doing it, it did not respond to resizing. Also, I want to
> order the keys. And have a novice and an expert mode that would show
> some or all of the conf.
> 8) Figure out how to get and display the size of the module.
> 
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