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Re: [Vicaya-user] Vicaya 0.1.6 Beta Release Candidate
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From: John B. <jtb...@ea...> - 2006-05-29 13:56:53
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Alex, I've just tried out the Vicaya 0.1.6 CD that you sent me. It works =20 beautifully on Mac OS 10.3.9 and 10.4.6! This is great news. A few comments/questions: 1. Can Launcher.jar be named something else without breaking =20 anything? Non-geeks usually feel more comfortable clicking on =20 something containing a verb, like "Launch ATI" or "Start" or some such. 2. I notice that I can invoke multiple instances of Launcher.jar -- I =20= mean, every time I double-click it, another instance starts up. This =20 is not standard Mac behavior. Is there any way to get Launcher to =20 sense if another instance has already been loaded and, if so, to exit =20= quietly? 3. I'll probably include an html file in the top level dir, as I did =20 in previous CD editions, that launches ATI the usual way. (I don't =20 know the lingo. When I launch Vicaya the browser loads pages via =20 http://localhost:8108; when I don't turn on Vicaya and just navigate =20 through the files on the CD, the URLs look like "file:///Volumes/=20 Vicaya-0.1.6/accesstoinsight/foo/bar.html"). I want to make it easy =20 for people to use the CD, even if they can't get Vicaya to work. 4. The Launcher.jar "About" screen simply says "Java". Can you could =20 add something that says a little bit more about Vicaya (author, =20 version number, website URL, etc.)? I guess it's time to put out the call for beta testers. I'll post a =20 note on ATI. This is all very, very cool, Alex. :) john On May 19, 2006, at 9:21 AM, Alexander E Genaud wrote: > Hej Michael, > > Thanks for the feedback. Glad it works out for you. The icons, images, > and content is primarily John's doing. I've taken his bulk ATI content > and done some massaging and filtering, but not much. Below is the > relevant bit of your code minus style: > > <form method=3D"get" action=3D"/search"> > <input name=3D"query"> > <!-- <input type=3D"image" > src=3D"../../../images/searchbutton2.gif" align=3D"top" name=3D"submit" > alt=3D"submit" width=3D"39" height=3D"23"></p> --> > <input class=3D"only-online" type=3D"submit" value=3D"Search" = /> > <input class=3D"only-offline" type=3D"submit" value=3D"»= > Search online" /> > </form> > >> As you can see, I would like to use an image for the search =20 >> button, but when >> I try to do this it does not search properly. > > I'm not sure what's wrong. Try to remove the other two submit input =20= > nodes. > >> Also, what is the function of the two input classes? > > That's a John Hack (tm). He simply changes one or two lines in the CSS > file to "convert" a webapp to on-line or off-line. Basically the > only-offline is invisible to the user when online and vise versa. I've > not bothered to mess with it too much. > > I intend to make a generic product that simply searches it's own > documentation if I get any hint that this project has captured the > imagination of anyone outside of the ATI peanut gallery. The download > would be substantially smaller. > >> To avoid confusion for the user it might be better >> just to lable both 'Search'. > > Yes. I would recommend that to both you and John. As I've been > automating all of these tasks, I found it too tedious to modify his > page variations. > > http://vicaya.sourceforge.net/doc/CHANGELOG.txt > > The entire download (with ATI but without the dev or creation tools) > is 35.5 MB. Which is less than double that of the basic bulk download. > Thus, it might be possible to use the same code base (including PDF) > in the near future. > >> I keep thinking that the search will take me on line... > > That it will not do. > >> Maybe you could brighten up the icon in the system tray a tad, >> use yellow in stead of copper ... > > The content is not my department. I'm hoping to pique the interest of > those who can do things as you mention and help with development. > >> just speaking about the icon. Right now it looks gray >> and one is not easily able to see what the image actually is. > > Gray? It should be slightly golden or bronze. At least on my machine. > I've noticed that these images look better on a Mac. I suspect these > images are using a system or custom palette. > > Alex > -- > 55.67N 12.588E > CCC7 D19D D107 F079 2F3D BF97 8443 DB5A 6DB8 9CE1 > -- > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, =20 > security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your =20 > job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache =20 > Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=120709&bid&3057&dat=121642= > _______________________________________________ > Vicaya-user mailing list > Vic...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vicaya-user |