[brailleblaster] Putative Java tree for BrailleBlaster
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:26:09 -0600
I've started to build a putative Java tree for BrailleBlaster, partly
because I feel that we are ready for such an attempt and partly to learn
by doing. So far I have a bin subdirectory for compiled classes, a lib
subdirectory for jar files and a few classes from elsewhere, and a src
subdirectory. Both the bin and src subdirectories are proper Java
hierarchies.
Under src/org/brailleblaster I have the following packages: startbb
liblouisutdml and editor The first contains the StartBB class, which
contains the main method and gets everything ready to run. It may have
other classes as time goes on. The liblouisutdml package contains
classes for dealing with the liblouisutdml library, such as converting
its input and output from and to JDOM documents and handling errors
reported in the log file.
The editor package contains the classes Editor, DaisyWindow and
BrailleWindow. Other classes will be added, such as Commons to handle
operations common to the two windows. A method in the Editor class is
called from the StartBB class to start the editor. This Editor class is
the Control in MVC. The two window classes are the view. The Commons
class is the model.
The editor's basic function is to display JDOM documents and trees and
to modify them according to user input. Producing them and generating
various types of output from them is the job of other packages. Besides
this basic function, the edotor also acts as the general user
interface. It therefore displays dialogue boxes and menus that are
actually produced by other packages, such as the help package, which has
yet to be added.
At some time I may want to push this tree to the project repository, but
I don't seem to have a password.
At present the lib subdirectory contains jdom.jar swt.jar and
Jliblouisutdml.class Jeuclid.jar will be added later, as will jar files
containing classes to deal with other C libraries, such as itex2mml.jar
and hunspell.jar
All right, maybe I'm making a fool of myself again, but this is a
start.
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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