[brailleblaster] A Requirement For Creating App Bundles On The Mac With Eclipse
- From: Alex Jurgensen <asquared21@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:18:35 -0800
Hi All,
I sent this with a not very descriptive subject line, so here is the message
again.
It is below my signature.
Regards,
Alex,
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Alex Jurgensen <ASquared21@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: November 30, 2010 2:10:42 PM PST
> To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [brailleblaster] Re: A Milestone Idea
>
> Hi JOhn,
>
> In order to create a *.app bundle on the Mac Eclipse requires a valid launch
> file. has someone prepared one already or should I prepare one?
>
> Regards,
> Alex,
>
>
> On 2010-11-29, at 11:05 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:
>
>> Alex,
>>
>> Thanks for the idea. We can do even better than Louis on the Mac. The
>> liblouisutdml tool file1brl will be available as a subcommand. This is
>> basically the same as the old xml2brl. It will produce nicely formatted
>> braille from a template. The embosser would have been set beforehand. So
>> the command would look like
>>
>> brailleblaster file2brl templatename inputfilename
>>
>> This should be simple enough to do. The big problem would be getting the
>> embosser driver. I can help someone who wants to work on this feature.
>> My own work will center on laying the groundwork for the word processor.
>>
>> John
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:22:26PM -0800, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I was thinking that it might be a good idea to produce a quick-Braille mode
>>> at the command-line for a first version. We can always add this later into
>>> the binary if we feel like it.
>>>
>>> My idea is a Command-Line tool that can be a sub-command of Braille Blaster
>>> that would allow the user to quickly emboss ad document without needing to
>>> format it. This is similar to the functionality of Louis for Mac
>>> http://www.cucat.org/projects/ but without the GUI.
>>>
>>> For example, a user could enter:
>>>
>>> $ brailleblaster quickemboss --width 40 --height 25 --embosser tiger_pro
>>> myFile.txt
>>>
>>> This would send the document "myFile.txt" to a Tiger Pro embosser with 40
>>> cells across the page and 25 down.
>>>
>>> I think this would be a good first goal of the Braille Blaster project as
>>> it would allow both the input classes and embosser driver classes to be
>>> written while creating something that can be used right away.
>>>
>>> The only downside to this idea that I can see is the fact that the UI will
>>> not be developed at the same time, because work on the UI related classes
>>> would stop while the quick-emboss feature is written. However, if someone
>>> continues to work on the UI classes while others work on the quick-emboss
>>> feature, I think that we can avoid the problem.
>>>
>>> If this does not sound good as a first goal, I suggest that we should
>>> include this feature in the final release of Braille Blaster.
>>>
>>> Please let me know what you think.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Alex,
>>>
>>>
>>> Alex Jurgensen,
>>> VoiceOver Trainer,
>>> ASquared21@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>> Visit us on the web at: www.vipbc.org
>>>
>>
>> --
>> John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
>> Abilitiessoft, Inc.
>> http://www.abilitiessoft.com
>> Madison, Wisconsin USA
>> Developing software for people with disabilities
>>
>>
>
> Alex Jurgensen,
> VoiceOver Trainer,
> ASquared21@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Visit us on the web at: www.vipbc.org
>
Alex Jurgensen,
VoiceOver Trainer,
ASquared21@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Visit us on the web at: www.vipbc.org
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