[Rlib-users] Re: Rlib

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 17:21, Will Kessler wrote:
> Aha-- 3yr old, that'll do it. I'm praying we'll just survive his "witching hours" (6pm-10pm) and make it to month 4 in one piece!
> 
> I did build RLIB from source. I hate RPM's... although one day I should just bear down and read the whole $@#@ man page to learn how to roll back from them. I always prefer being able to say prefix=<my own dir in /usr/local> so that I know where everything goes, rather than somebody else spraypainting files all over my carefully constructed *nix's...  pkgadd on solaris gave me a much better warm fuzzy feeling because it always started with "preserving everything before installing..."

Ximian's Red Carpet will do all the for you I think......

> 
> So, you're suggesting i check out the CVS version then? I'll have to review... been a while since CVS and I'm a bit rusty. I have used subversion a lot recently so maybe it will come back to me.

Follow the Anon CVS Directions
http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=88448


> I might help you with the DHTML of your reports, if I can get a little time and you're interested... spent many hours coding DHTML on my last few projects.

I'm interested... its the way RLIB should be doing it IMHO... RLIB's PDF
generation has the ability to indent horizontal lines.. and give a
length to them... the best I can do w/ html is a <tr><td
height=something bgcolor=something></td></tr>

Two things would be helpful.... one.. take a simple RLIB report and redo
it manually using dhtml.. and give me some hints about how to generate
it..

If your c is good and you have more time you may want to check out
html.c in rlib/libsrc to see how I'm currenrently doing it... If you go
that route you will probably need to poke around reportgen.c at least..
to see what functions are called when.. if its not obvious from the name

There is a lot of fun stuff in the engine because RLIB has to lay things
out 4 different ways.. but its a faily clean OO design doine in c a la
structs w/ private data and pointers to functions

Also you might want to join the LIST(s) ;)

- Bob