[jsword-devel] Activity report

[Mark Goodwin]

Oh, and the screenies for the website.

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 11:15:21 +0100, Mark Goodwin <goodwinster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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