[dbdoclet] Re: How to use TidBits GUI

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your reply. I have now made some headway with using the TidBit
generated Ant build file. I can successfully generate the PDF output now. :)

Some minor problems with the GUI:

I am using TidBit with J2SE 5.0 and it is quite hard to "add" directories on
the source and classpath tabs. Most of the time when pressed, the "add"
buttons don't actually add any entries to the list of directories in either
tab.

Also the ClassNotFound exception for the regexp library hasn't gone away in
the latest version of TidBit. For example TidBit generates the following
line in 3 places in the Ant build file:
<doclet name="org.dbdoclet.doclet.docbook.DocBookDoclet" path="${
dbdoclet.home}/jars/jdk${java.specification.version}/dbdoclet.jar">

I added ${dbdoclet.home}/jars/regexp.jar to each of these doclet path
entries to make the exception go away. TidBit clobbers these lines whenever
I use it to edit an existing XML file.

Many thanks,
Mathur

On 5/18/06, Michael Fuchs <michael.fuchs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

Hello S. Mathur,

the Swing application (tidbit) creates and opens an ant build XML file
itself, not a DocBook XML file.
Perhaps you can create a small new project with tidbit and then have a
look at the generated project file. You then can reuse the targets for
generating PDF in your build file or integrate the one created by tidbit
via the  <ant> target. tidbit was designed to generate an ant file,
which covers the generation from javadoc to the resulting media. You are
already one step further.

If you need more information, please let me know.

Regards
Michael

S Mathur schrieb:
> Hi Michael,
>
> I used the Ant Javadoc task and dbdoclet to successfully create an XML
> file from my Java sources.
> I am now unsure of how to go from XML to PDF via the GUI or using the
> command-line
>
> After using 'Open Project" to load the XML file in the GUI, what
> should I do? Simply hitting the PDF button does not help.
> It seems to require the source paths and the class paths all over
> again, even though the XML already exists.
>
> I will appreciate some help on using the Swing application.
>
> Many thanks for this software
> Mathur

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