[CompInaBox-discuss] Initial development version of FloorCraft check-in to CVS at sf.net

[Eric D. N. <nie...@MI...>]

I just checked in the initial developer version of FloorCraft to CVS  
at sf.net under the CompInaBox project, using the module name of  
FloorCraft.

The UI is barely useable and is still missing many required  
operations as well as needing massive layout help.  I'll look into  
creating a downloadable executable in the near future.  I think it  
should be easy, but I'm not sure.

Currently it knows about "Sessions","Events", and "Rounds".  It can  
calculate the minimum time required for each event to run in  
isolation. My next step is to add on a bottom panel that shows the  
interleaved schedule of rounds inside the session and can thus  
calculate the total time required for the session.  The initial  
scheduler will NOT enforce a set time distance between consecutative  
rounds of the same event, nor attempt to estimate scrutineering  
requirements; it will merely interleave backwards in level order from  
finals to first rounds as needed.  Thus the session time will be the  
same as the total of the contained events.  Following that addition,  
the UI can start to be cleaned up as the main elements will be present.

The following iterations will likely focus on filling out the range  
of operations exposed to the user (such as the currently missing edit/ 
remove event ... ).

At some point the hard coded constants for heat size/times, etc will  
need to be exposed to be customizable as well as more intelligent  
scheduler's adder.

It currently has a rather thorough unit test suite -- the only  
component to be knowledge that is insufficiently tested for the  
current functionality is the CustomEventListRenderer as I wasn't sure  
how to dig into that.  The unit tests require the following  
components that are not distributed with FloorCraft : JUnit, Jemmy  
(from NetBeans), gsbase (from sf.net) and EasyMock 2.0 (sf.net).  I  
am hoping to be approved for a free licensee of Clover to use on this  
project to help report on the test coverage.

Eric