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[Backarrow-devel] FASD project: Online survey launched

[<ben...@id...>]

Dear Open Source developer

I am doing a research project on "Fun and Software Development" in which I kindly invite you to participate.
You will find the online survey under http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/. The questionnaire consists of 53 questions and you will need about 15 minutes to complete it.

With the FASD project (Fun and Software Development) we want to define the motivational significance of fun when software developers decide to engage in Open Source projects. What is special about our research project is that a similar survey is planned with software developers in commercial firms. This procedure allows the immediate comparison between the involved individuals and the conditions of production of these two development models. Thus we hope to obtain substantial new insights to the phenomenon of Open Source Development.


With many thanks for your participation,
Benno Luthiger


PS:
The results of the survey will be published under http://www.isu.unizh.ch/fuehrung/blprojects/FASD/.
We have set up the mailing list fa...@we... for this study. Please see http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/mailinglist_en.html for registration to this mailing list.

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Benno Luthiger
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
8092 Zurich

Mail: benno.luthiger(at)id.ethz.ch
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Re: [Backarrow-devel] skipdownload progress bar fix, needed changes to mozilla.cpp.

[<pin...@ya...>]

 --- lee bigelow <lig...@ya...> wrote: > Hello there,
> I'm not sure if your still working on this or not, but
> I've been fiddling with it.
> I checked it out of you sourceforge cvs and tried to
> compile but ran into some small problems.
> This is how I fixed them.

Yes, I'm still working on it. Just going a bit slow at the moment.
Doing my graduation work for school and stuff.
And now I'm going to be without the internet for 4-8 weeks
because I'm moving. After that I hopefully can continue it more.
Good to see other people are interested though. =)

> --------------------------------
> First the src/mozilla.cpp file:
> 
> line 41 
> had #include "history/nsIGlobalHistory.h"
> changed to just "nsIGlobalHistory.h"
> 
> line 144 
> made reference to SetGlobalHistory, which is not
> defined in any of my mozilla headers (I did and grep
> -r for it and nothing, there is a
> SetUseGlobalHistory?).  Anyway, if you just comment
> out line 144 nothing bad seems to happen -- history
> seems to still work and all.
> 
> line 589
> had GetBaseURL(), changed it to GetBaseURI().

Ok, thanks. I'll do the changes when I get the time.

> -------------------------------------
> Now, about skipdownload.  The progressbar wasn't
> working so I looked at skipdownload.c and had to
> change it a bit to work with my wget (it doesn't have
> a micro dot style output, and doesn't put square
> brackets around it's percent complete output).

Yes, I've noticed this myself too. Haven't had time
to do anything about it yet..

> file skipdownload.c:
> 
> lines 164 and 168:
> changed --progress=dot:micro to just --progress=dot
> 
> line 197:
> changed the find_string(line, "[") to
> find_string(line, "%")
> then on line 199:
> changed 'line + n' to 'line + n - 3' in the scanf
> function call.

Again, I'll add the changes when I get the time. Thanks.

> ------------------
> That's all, and everything seems be working just fine.
> Well sort of.

There still are a lot of bugs in it. =/

> Saving the page from the File->Save menu option
> sometimes works, but not always (yes, I always give a
> file name).  Anyone have any ideas? I've been digging
> around in the nsIWebBrowserPersist a bit, but to be
> honest I haven't tried very hard. (saving pages is not
> something I do very often)

Hmm. Now that you say it. I haven't much tried the page 
savings. I need the function very rarely. :x

> It might be nice to send the Save page option to
> skipdownload with some recursion options.  I mean, we
> are using wget, why not.  gtkwet is nice sample code.

You mean gtkwget right? I'll have a look at it once I
get time.. Thanks for letting me know there is such a project.


-dpb


	
	
		
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[Backarrow-devel] skipdownload progress bar fix, needed changes to mozilla.cpp.

[lee b. <lig...@ya...>]

Hello there,
I'm not sure if your still working on this or not, but
I've been fiddling with it.
I checked it out of you sourceforge cvs and tried to
compile but ran into some small problems.
This is how I fixed them.

--------------------------------
First the src/mozilla.cpp file:

line 41 
had #include "history/nsIGlobalHistory.h"
changed to just "nsIGlobalHistory.h"

line 144 
made reference to SetGlobalHistory, which is not
defined in any of my mozilla headers (I did and grep
-r for it and nothing, there is a
SetUseGlobalHistory?).  Anyway, if you just comment
out line 144 nothing bad seems to happen -- history
seems to still work and all.

line 589
had GetBaseURL(), changed it to GetBaseURI().

-------------------------------------
Now, about skipdownload.  The progressbar wasn't
working so I looked at skipdownload.c and had to
change it a bit to work with my wget (it doesn't have
a micro dot style output, and doesn't put square
brackets around it's percent complete output).


file skipdownload.c:

lines 164 and 168:
changed --progress=dot:micro to just --progress=dot

line 197:
changed the find_string(line, "[") to
find_string(line, "%")
then on line 199:
changed 'line + n' to 'line + n - 3' in the scanf
function call.

------------------
That's all, and everything seems be working just fine.
Well sort of.

Saving the page from the File->Save menu option
sometimes works, but not always (yes, I always give a
file name).  Anyone have any ideas? I've been digging
around in the nsIWebBrowserPersist a bit, but to be
honest I haven't tried very hard. (saving pages is not
something I do very often)

It might be nice to send the Save page option to
skipdownload with some recursion options.  I mean, we
are using wget, why not.  gtkwet is nice sample code.

I'm using:
mozilla firefox-0.8+ cvs
gcc3.3



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