MuLTiFlow Files

MuLTiflow Version 1.0 dated July 2010, Copyright @ S.K.Venkatesan, B. Manoponni and G.K.Venkatesan (TNQ Books and Journals, Chennai: http://www.tnq.co.in, skvenkat@tnq.co.in or suki.venkat@gmail.com)
Licensed under GPL version 3 (see COPYING.txt)
 
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                      Installation Notes                     
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Standalone MuLTiFlow application
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We support standalone MuLTiFlow application as a Debian Package.


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For standalone debugging use:
$ multiflow -jsconsole
For debuuging on Firefox set these options (using about:config URL):
javascript.options.showInConsole
javascript.options.strict
nglayout.debug.disable_xul_cache
browser.dom.window.dump.enabled
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How to use MuLTiFlow as a Firefox add-on
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(i) Open multiflow.xpi using Firefox Browser File->Open command and Install MuLTiFlow extension

(ii) Restart Firefox

(iii) In Firefox click on the menu, Tools->MuLTiFlow Editor

(iv) MuLTiFlow editor/browser will by default open in its own independent window. If you set "Editor in Tab" to "Yes" in the Addon preferences/options, then it will open in a tab in Firefox.

(v) MuLTiFlow comes with its own browser (ctrl+q to toggle for browser/editor), so you can even close Firefox that triggered MuLTiFlow and use it for Browsing instead of Firefox.

(vi) In the Windows menu there is also another Scratch pad for rough work. This is also used extract BibTeX references from Google Scholar, so beware, it is not safe to hold content there!

(vii) You can set "Multi Columns" to "Yes" in the Addon preferences/options, then it will use multicolumn layout in the editor with horizontal mouse wheeling.


User Notes
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(i) BugZilla entry is yet to be created... so report bugs to skvenkat@tnq.co.in or suki.venkat@gmail.com

Developer Notes
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(i) MuLTiFlow menu is at  chrome/content/editor.xul

(ii) Most of the Javascript coding is in chrome/content/js/editor.js

(iii) multiflow.xpi is a zip of the files+folders in the SVN trunk


Acknowledgments
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(i) Amartyo Banerjee (amartyo@gmail.com) convinced me beyond doubt that MuLTiFlow must be released under GPL v3 and taught me all the open source conventions.
(ii) Simon Pepping (sam.pepping@gmail.com) provided the Dutch, German and French translations apart from other useful contributions.