Re: Questions: was Re: EdSharp 3.2 and FileDir 3.8 released
- From: "qubit" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:43:30 -0500
John -- I'm curious, what is the gnome GUI like for your libraries? and the
apple GUI as well? I have another thought... I'll get back to you when I
flesh it out.
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: Questions: was Re: EdSharp 3.2 and FileDir 3.8 released
Jamal,
What do you think of having edSharp call the liblouisxml library
functions? It would p;rovide us with a good GUI to start. Laura and I
would do this work, if she thinks it's a good idea. The result would be
called louisSharp. It would be good to have a command-line-like window
in which to run the liblouis tools, which are used for testing and
debugging translation tables.
Are C# and Visual Basic supported on any platform besides Windows? I
think, though, that trying to write a mult-platform GUI would be an
exercise in frustration. There is already a liblouisxml GUI for the Mac,
written in AppleScript by Greg Kearney. Eventually there will also be
one for Gnome, but I think it will have to be written using the Gnome
functions.
Thanks,
John
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 09:54:03AM -0400, Jamal Mazrui wrote:
> Hi John,
> EdSharp is mainly written in the C# 2.0 language. There are also a
> couple of assemblies in Visual Basic .NET and JScript .NET for small
> tasks. The source code by default is at the following location:
>
> C:\Program Files\EdSharp\EdSharp.cs
>
> (Strangely, Mozilla Thunderbird seems to be doing odd things with the
> backslash character in the above path, but I think you get the idea --
> just look in the EdSharp program folder.
>
> EdSharp supports navigation by HTML or XML tag. That is about the only
> XML feature that presently comes to mind. Much configurability would
> allow you to add more XML support, e.g., code snippets or an XML
> "compiler" setting from which any command-line utility may be run
> against the source code in the current document.
>
> Let me know if you have more questions.
>
> Jamal
>
>
> On 4/10/2010 5:06 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >Jamal,
> >
> >I am looking for a good print-side editor to include in the GUI for my
> >liblou8isxml braille translation library. EdSharp fulfulls one of the
> >requirements - open source. What language is it written in? Where can I
> >obtain the source to look at? This might provide valuable information on
> >how to write the GUI for liblouisxml. Laura Eaves will do the actual
> >writing, but I'm following up any leads that look promising. Does
> >edSharp have special features for handling xml files. As you can guess
> >from its name liblouisxml is designed primarily to translate and format
> >xml documents, though it can fall back to text documents.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >John
> >
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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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