Re: [Tockit-general] New Docco test version

[Peter B. <pe...@pe...>]

Bastian Wormuth wrote:

>Hi Peter,
>
>here is my first bug report:
>
>- I miss the option to recreate the diagram by hitting the "Submit"
>  button again, this was a nice option to change the diagrams layout.
>  I guess not intended, but nice anyway. It is still possible by
>  hitting "Enter", but not via the button, it remains grey. Nothing
>  serious.
>  
>
It actually takes a little bit of code to disable the button. I can 
remove that.

>- The PDF plugin still has the problem I mentioned earlier. I get just
>  one hit out of 52 on the BIS example, the "Schulz.pdf". Also "ext:pdf"
>  finds just that one. I tried it on another folder, same  problem,
>  just 5 out of 15.
>  
>
First test I did was running against the ICFCA04 CD. I got 3/4 hits, the 
ToscanaJ manual failed. There seems to be some problem with the OOo 
PDFs, even though the Elba manual worked. I attached some stuff to this 
bug in PDFbox:
- 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=860027&group_id=78314&atid=552832

I could reproduce the problem with the BIS example, though. 
Unfortunately it is a feature, not a bug -- see the last entry for 0.6.3 
on this list:
- http://www.csh.rit.edu/~ben/projects/pdfbox/news.html

Acrobat Reader disallows copying text out of these documents, too -- 
although it does allow text selection, whatever that is good for if you 
can't copy it.

So this is actually correct behaviour. Not that I really want it, though 
:-( But I don't think I want to hack PDFbox either -- which shouldn't be 
too hard (a diff between the source of 0.6.2 and 0.6.3 would most likely 
help a lot), but while I disagree with this type of secretiveness, I 
still think we should respect that.

>- A question: what about PDF/PS export ? Could I use the same plugins
>  as in TJ ?
>  
>
Yes, the diagram export plugins are quite low-level: they operate on the 
canvas package, which means any program using the canvas and the plugin 
loader does automatically use them.

>Besides this - very nice, I like it very much, especially node
>dragging ;-)
>  
>
Thanks. What do you think about restoring the last query? I am still not 
sure if I really want that, I just couldn't be bothered yesterday to 
find a way to start with an empty text field. JComboBox is yet another 
really bad part of Swing :-( Quite a bit of swearing involved in getting 
there. :-)

  Peter