[brailleblaster] Re: MDI
- From: François Ouellette <braille@xxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:49:41 -0400
Keith: this is great, it means it used the liblouisutdml translation process!
François.
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Keith Creasy <kcreasy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I used "Open".
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of François Ouellette
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 11:08 AM
> To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: MDI
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> I tend to agree with the single document approach for now. I am not sure if a
> majority of users really need to work on multiple documents all at the same
> time. I would venture to say that a single-document tool with tons of
> features is better than a MDI with weaknesses.
>
> Keith: how did you open the book, using Open or Import?
>
> François.
>
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Keith Creasy <kcreasy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Just FYI, some of the large NIMAS files-over 2 MB-seem to just about bring
>> down most of the software that I've tried to use. This is mostly because
>> it's XML and has over 1500 images. I really can't imagine that many people
>> are going to need multiple documents open at once-at least not in our
>> context at APH. My suggestion is to make as much progress as possible
>> getting a single document interface fully developed. Maybe keep the MDI
>> framework but disable it for now.
>>
>> I was able to load and translate the 2.2 MB book with BB so that's a good
>> sign.
>>
>> BB doesn't display images yet does it? That would be an important feature to
>> add since describing the images is a lot of what transcribers need to do.
>>
>> Just a suggestion.
>>
>> Keith
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vic Beckley
>> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 9:56 AM
>> To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [brailleblaster] MDI
>>
>> I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but the MDI isn't working correctly
>> at all. Here are three major problem I have found so far.
>>
>> When you have multiple documents open closing one document closes all
>> documents.
>>
>> If you have a document open with text and Braille, then loading a second
>> document with text and Braille won't load the Braille.
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>> If you have several documents open and try to save one of the documents, BB
>> saves the wrong document. I tried to save document 2. It presented me with
>> the name of document 1. I thought it just was confused about the name so I
>> changed it to the name of document 2 and saved it. When I brought up
>> document 2 again it was actually the text of document 1.
>>
>>
>> Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,
>>
>> Vic
>> E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx
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