[Dvdxul-devs] Current state

[Yvan N. <yva...@gm...>]

Hi,

I think it would be great if we could make a sort of weekly report
about what's going on in DvdXul, and what's next.

So I've added the preferences page, which should allow the user to
choose the local storage mode. But there are two problems :

- there is a test when the user selects the DbXML component, which is
meant to load the DbXPCOM component to check it is available. This
test is wrong, and I'm gonna correct it soon. Also, it just checks the
availaibility of the component, I guess we could (should ?) also check
dbxml itself, probably by trying to actually *use* DbXPCOM.

- DbXPCOM seems to be broken ! Indeed it shouldn't be, as there hasn't
been any changes on it since some time, but the fact is, it failed
when I tried it some days ago. Unfortunately I haven't much free time
nowadays, but my guess is I just had some troubles with the XPCOM
component registration, so if someone could test that, it would be
great.

The other preferences (skin and locale) aren't really active yet,
because I simply don't know how to do it ^^ Indeed, I guess we could
probably hack the xul file(s) directly and dynamically change the css
and dtd, but that feels kinda wrong, doesn't it ? :)
So we would need to have a look in moz'source (
http://lxr.mozilla.org/ ) and see how they're doing it.

I also recenlty stumbled upon a cool page (
http://xulfr.org/wiki/ApplicationAutonome ) which explains how to have
a really independent application (which doesn't even need xulrunner;
like firefox/thunderbird/nvu, indeed). I do not know of an english
version, but I guess there should be some infos on this topic
somewhere :)
Of course we don't really need to have this working soon, but anyway,
it would be pretty cool :)
Furthermore, it is *possible* that it *could* simplify the xpcom
registration problems, and even remove them completely !

And finally, I really have to made the changes we discussed last week
on the online database, so we'd be able to finish the dvd edition
pages and stuff, which would be also really great :)

So, a lot of great things are coming up our way, but which require a
great amount of work :)

Happy hacking,

Yvan