[brailleblaster] Re: Braille Fonts
- From: Brandon Roller <brandon.r.roller@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:21:53 -0500
A log file exists the folder that is created when BrailleBlaster is
initialized.
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Michael Whapples <mwhapples@xxxxxxx>wrote:
> Further to that, in the long term you may want such information to be
> added to a log file so it is easy for people to send the exception
> information to you. Would be a similar exercise.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 25/01/2013 17:16, Michael Whapples wrote:
>
>> Short answer yes.
>>
>> Longer answer is depends how much work you want to spend on it.
>>
>> Simply put, have a try/catch block catching all exceptions/errors
>> (exercise: find the class all exceptions and errors inherit from) at the
>> appropriate level (may be even in public static void main, although you may
>> find recovering from there is difficult) and have code within the catch
>> block which gets the exception information and puts it inside a message box
>> and does what it can to recover if possible.
>>
>> Michael Whapples
>> On 25/01/2013 15:56, John J. Boyer wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Brandon,
>>> What class is this dialog in? I'll have a look at BBIni . When I get
>>> this dialog BrailleBlaster terminates.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to make the program pop up a dialog box when an exception
>>> occurs instead of just quitting?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> John
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 09:48:32AM -0500, Brandon Roller wrote:
>>>
>>>> John,
>>>> I have seen that dialog too.
>>>> I think there are bugs in the BBIni.java file and how it finds a path to
>>>> the BB directory.
>>>> So the braille fonts are there, it's just that the correct path was not
>>>> established on initialization.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Brandon
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Vic Beckley <vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> John,
>>>>>
>>>>> Strange. I'm not getting this. I am also running from the latest
>>>>> repository.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From:
>>>>> brailleblaster-bounce@**freelists.org<brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> [mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@**freelists.org<brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]
>>>>> On Behalf Of John J. Boyer
>>>>> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 8:59 AM
>>>>> To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> Subject: [brailleblaster] Braille Fonts
>>>>>
>>>>> I have just updated to the latest newdesign repository. When I run
>>>>> BrailleBlaster to debug the crash I get a dialog saying that the
>>>>> Braille
>>>>> font cannot be found. Whatever font this is, it should be in the fonts
>>>>> directory in the repository, since it won't change.
>>>>>
>>>>> I see from the liblouis list that there is a font to display dot
>>>>> patterns for Unicode Braille. Do we have this? If not, it should also
>>>>> be
>>>>> in the fonts directory.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> John
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> 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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