[Tockit-general] Docco-0.3

[Bobby <bg...@ka...>]

Thank you for this neat program! I have been researching the best method 
of implementing this kind of application, but it looks like I no longer 
need to worry about that. My last idea was to adapt a web crawler to a 
local application.

Docco does just about everything I need. I collect news and other 
information for use in my own work as a writer and publisher of a 
website. I need to access a large amount of this form of data, way 
beyond the capability of any file browser, and yet that's all I could 
find until now.

I downloaded the program and the two available plugins (pdfbox and poi). 
I had the .bat extension associated with my text editor (Crimson), so 
when I tried to run it, it just opened instead in the editor. Once I 
fixed that, the program launched and ran as advertised.

However I do have one small problem that you may be able to offer some 
advice on. When I try to open a file from the tree list, I get a DOS 
window which immediately closes, and the expected application never 
opens at all.

The directory I indexed contains mostly .html with some .pdf however, in 
the tree list, all files have the same Windows default icon, which might 
be the best clue. For some reason, the file type isn't being recognized.

I'm still running Windows 98SE which is likely the real problem. I've 
been trying to migrate to Linux but haven't succeeded yet.

Do you have anything to offer on this?

Perhaps an idea for further development, would be a small "thumbnail" 
like viewer that would show the first paragraph for example, as you 
select a document from the tree. Or, alternatively a scrollable list of 
such sampled text from the documents in the tree list. Locating a 
particular document in this way would be much faster than loading each 
document one by one into an application.

Regards,
Bobby Garner