[brailleblaster] Re: Draft 2 of BrailleBlaster Design
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:33:06 -0600
Yuemei,
I'm glad you like the design in general. The WPManager's main function
will be to co-ordinate the Daisy and braille windows, move them about on
the screen, etc. It's the controller in the MVC design model. Since the
Daisy and Braille windows will both need some of the same facilities,
these will be placed in the Commons class.
I'm not sure I understand your second question. The Daisy and Braile
windows will appear to the user aas described in the specification.
John
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:03:08PM -0800, Yuemei Sun wrote:
> Hi, John,
>
> Looks great! I have a couple of questions for the WordProcessor
> package, though.
>
> 1) What's the main purpose of WPManager? Does it act like the main
> editing platform, which will call the appropriate display window? Would
> it have all the other UI components (menus, tool bars, etc.)?
> 2) How do we accommodate when users want to see both the braille and the
> original? Will the Braille Display do this, ie, show the original when
> user chooses to do that, hide them otherwise?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yuemei
>
> On 11/28/2010 8:25 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >It is attached. A few things have been added and some classes have been
> >fleshed out a bit. The build.xml file for Ant is incomplete. I'm having
> >trouble getting Ant to work. The version on my machine is 1.6.5. I
> >installed openjdk-1.6 and it doesn't like that. I'm trying to install
> >ant 1.8.1 and hopiing for better luck.
> >
> >The org.brailleblaster.wordprocessor package has two new classes,
> >StartupScreen and TextEditor. As previously explained, the latter is a
> >bare-bones text editor for advanced users, asnd it can be invoked only
> >throuth subcommands. It does not affect the rest of the wordproceessor
> >package. I'm thinking of coding it first because of its simplicity and
> >because it will give me experience with SWT. This first version will be
> >standalone. When it is tested I will move part of it into the Commons
> >class and have WPManager call the rest on receiving appropriate
> >parameters.
> >
> >John
> >
>
> --
> Yuemei Sun
>
> Software Engineer
> yuemei.sun@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 541-754-4002 ext 229
>
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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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