Re: [Tm4j-developers] Some news and an idea

[Norbert H. <rue...@se...>]

Hi,

 > I would love to see some serious development go into a navigation/editing
 > tool. I think that such a tool could cover all kinds of interesting 
areas -
 > visualisation techniques, topic map "templates" or "schemas" for easier
 > editing, form-driven editing (perhaps using XUL ?), as well as 
integrating
 > querying and automatic topic map generation tools. Lots of scope for 
lots of
 > interesting stuff.
 >

at the moment I'm trying to build a editing gui to create/manage topic maps.
While this is my first project using swing/GUI progress is really really
slow (I restarted the complete code for the fourth time now).
I also struggle with topic maps a little bit. I got in touch with it
already but there are a lot of nuts & bolts to solve.

But thats only excuses :)

My plans for the gui are at the moment.

- creation of editing panels for topics and associations
- figuring out what additional aspects should be handled
    by the gui
- load and save capabilities of maps
- using ozone package


future plans:

- remote editing capabilities. the gui could should be able to
   work on a local xtm file or ozone database and also
   connect to a remote server to update/edit a map
- preview mode in gui. basic structure of the map should
   be viewable and navigatable


If there are any ideas/suggestions/plans what the GUI should contain
I'm very interested to hear that.

thats for now,

NoB