Obviously I've taken this subject way off corse, so I'm changing the subject
line.
Don't be sorry - discouragement is part of life.
1. Can you think of any way it can become an add-on? I'm probably not
much
help, but I'm very willing to try and help.
I've thought and thought, but have no solutions to making seperate add ons
that modify core code. Although I'm curious if anyone responds to my prior
question, Can Javascript functions be overloaded?. Everything I could
abstract to an XML, I did.
2. Does it only pull stuff from web pages? Can it pull stuff from Word,
other apps, etc.?
You can paste anything into it. It will contain the HTML that Word pastes
to the clipboard - which is the equivalent of Word's Save As Web Page.
For the most part, it will look in the snippets nearly identically to what
was in Word - although this isn't always the case (as you'll know if you've
ever used the Save As Webpage function).
3. Where can I get it? Where can I get a 3.0 beta 24 flavor of it?
I haven't upgraded it to v3, but it is on my to-do list. Currently I'm
using an old version of DQSD. :(
4. What other DQSD utils do you have.
I have tinkered (emphasis on tinkered) with:
- fold-out folders (basically a drive explorer on the menu, with a
pre-defined starting point...My Favorites, My Documents, etc.)
- changing the textarea to a DIV with contenteditable=true. This looks
better and is more functionable than a textarea or input. It can include
HTML content (links, pictures, etc) but can still be typed into. Mozilla
1.1 is going to support this - after that you are going to see these
everywhere. Remember that word, contenteditable. :)
- making DQSD work as a Search Frame in Internet Explorer. This is
different than a search bar. We are talking about that pane that can show
things like history and such.
But mostly I just have I deas that I haven't had time to work on. As I've
mentioned before, I work in RD - it's my job to let my mind wander and
cause scope creep while people such as yourself tell me why it won't work.
:) Probably my next attempt will be attempting to display RSS news feeds in
DQSD. I've already written an ASP based RSS newsfeed reader - and I think
it would be cool - despite the scope creep - in DQSD.
-Dan
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John W.
Bairen, Jr.
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 4:56 PM
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Subject: RE: [DQSD-Users] dsdq and knowledge management ?
Dan,
I was one of the original opponents to the Snippets feature. But then I had
a use for it, so I was forced to change my opinion. I have a few questions
for you about it.
1. Can you think of any way it can become an add-on? I'm probably not much
help, but I'm very willing to try and help.
2. Does it only pull stuff from web pages? Can it pull stuff from Word,
other apps, etc.?
3. Where can I get it? Where can I get a 3.0 beta 24 flavor of it?
4. What other DQSD utils do you have.
Sorry if I discouraged you when you were working on Snippets. I do software
testing for a large company and am always fighting the battle of function
creep and scope creep because 1 customer wants it and is willing to pay for
it.
Thanks,
JB
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Martin, Daniel
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 5:09 PM
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Subject:RE: [DQSD-Users] dsdq and knowledge management ?
Why don't you package the Snippets add-on (similar to the googlespell
example)
so that it can be independently packaged, downloaded, and installed from
SF?
If it were a separate set of XML files, this would work fine. Unfortunately
it alters search.htm and helpmenu.js. Given that, if it's not part of the
base code, it has to be updated with every release. To dqsd's credit, that
is far too frequent to make it practical. The RSS news feed stuff might be
possible as an add-on. I honestly haven't had a chance to try it.
Does JS support overloaded functions? It's perhaps the only way I can think
of effectively doing things like this.
Go for it.
Forking is...never the best solution, IMHO. This is why I've kept my
current fork pretty much to myself.
-Dan
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Glenn Carr
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 3:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [DQSD-Users] dsdq and knowledge management ?
As it relates to DQSD, I've found the DQSD direction to
be focused on pure searching. I maintain a separate build
of DQSD with an add-on I wrote that I call Snippets.
Snippets allow you to save chunks of web pages (without
knowing HTML). When I introduced it originally, some felt
it was outside the scope of DQSD.
Dan,
Why don't you package the Snippets add-on (similar to the googlespell
example)
so that it can be independently packaged, downloaded, and installed from SF?
Your example was one
