Re: [Eclass-users] bugs

[BJ C. <ca...@tu...>]

Kevino,

> > 2. This one is a bit bigger as it has larger ramifications...If you
> > "cancel" when using the Find Feature in the html document editor, it
> > crashes
> > the editor and EClass.
> > http://payson.tulane.edu/staff/bjcameron/error6.jpg
> > Unfortunately, you lose all your unsaved work and despite the error
> > message there is nothing in the errlog.txt. I seemed to have lost all
> > my "system
> > preferences" after the crash too.
>
> Unfortunately, I've been unable to reproduce this in either XP or Win
> 98. Could you send me the Dr. Watson log? Also, could you try this on
> some computers in the office tomorrow if you're going in?

I have been unable to reproduce the error on Win XP, however it did occur on
a different Win 2k Machine. The Dr. Watson Error log:
http://payson.tulane.edu/staff/bjcameron/drwtsn32.txt


> > 6. I have been having minor trouble editing the new template files
> > (*.TPL) with Editpad lite. In particular, I can't move the cursor with
> > the mouse. Can you recommend another editor?
>
> No, but I can offer a suggestion that may fix your problem. =) Try
> opening the file in Editpad Lite, selecting Convert->To UNIX and then
> after that, Convert->To Windows. I think what happened is that at some
> point UNIX line endings got into the template files, and the mixture of
> Windows and UNIX endings is confusing the editor. Let me know if that
> helps.

Unfortunately, this does not work. After I converted to Unix, I tried to
convert to Windows, but it is still "greyed" out. However, I updated to
editpadpro 5.3.0 demo and the file reads fine.


> > 10. Using Swish-e search, doc files do not get indexed even though
> > they are in the "File" directory. I checked out swishe.conf, no
> > problems there. Other ideas?
>
> I'm seeing this too, it's a problem with wvWare failing to convert the
> docs... I have no idea why its failing, but it is far from a perfect
> conversion tool. I'll have to look for another conversion method.
> Another reason I should get back on a solution for OpenOffice support.

For all of my Eclasses, I try to create an HTML file representation for PDF
and Docs and then link back to the orginal. I find this works best for
Greenstone and Swish-e.

***New Bug**
However, Tod is creating an Eclass for Sam's upcoming Sri Lanka course and
wants to use a MS Word doc in the "web page" spot  in the "page editor". The
page does not display at all. I tried the same thing in an older version of
Eclass (2.5b1) and got this error message:
http://payson.tulane.edu/staff/bjcameron/error7.jpg . I tried another Word
doc that I created, and still the same message.
I tried again in Eclass 2.0 and got nothing.

Does Eclass support Word documents (doc and rtf) in the web page spot? If
not, you need to remove them from the "document files" in the "select a
file" for the web page spot.
Not sure this matters, but I have OpenOffice1.1.0 marked in the system
preferences.


Thanks,

BJ