On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 07:41 -0700, laurel wrote: > I think it would be up to the group to decide if this is critical > functionality to be added to the authoring tool. Based on previous > discussions, I think yes. However I'm not sure if there is a time > restriction on the goal, such as a date when this functionality is > required. Does anyone know? >
> As for how to do this with javahelp - I'm not attached to any > technique. If we can make it work using a javaxpcom browser or JDIC it > doesn't really matter. Scott - do you have any timeline on the > javaxpcom work? It is hard to say, we have seen postings of a few people that successfully have it working. However we have not yet got it working on mac, windows, or linux. Given our time schedule here, we are going to either have javaxpcom working or some other native browser within a month. (~ mid April) If we can't get javaxpcom working we'll probably revert back to jdic and try to fix as many of the crossplatform issues as we can. > > Another alternative would be to find a wiki that might render pages > better in the current javahelp browser or to make a wiki space in > confluence that doesn't have lots of crazy formatting requirements. > I'm skeptical of these techniques because the html in most wikis > doesn't seem to be well formed anyway. I haven't looked into this at > all so if anyone has ideas there, it would be nice to hear about them. This would be a nice alternative. If we have control over the wiki it is definitely possible to generate html which renders nicely in the HTMLEditorkit. Because wiki text is a small subset of html it is possible to generate html which the htmleditorkit can handle. We are actually doing this already with the DIY sites here. We are using textile (a wiki markup language) to generate html which renders nicely in the HTMLEditorKit. Any open source wiki should customizable to generate pages like this. Perhaps even confluence can be customized to do this. This approach might be better than using a native browser, because it will be lighter weight and more portable. However, the last time I checked HTMLEditorKit does not support forms well. So if you wanted to edit some of that help text you would have to jump out to a regular browser. Scott --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SAIL-Dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SAIL-Dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
