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| 2 | Dave W. was interested in some "gap analysis" for the WCKER |
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| 3 | prject. Here is a brief first pass - any comments or improvements |
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| 4 | would be much appreciated. |
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| 6 | David |
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| 9 | WCKER Gap Analysis |
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| 10 | ================== |
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| 12 | The "conceptual gaps" at moment between where we are now |
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| 13 | with WCKER and where we have to get before the project is |
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| 14 | tightly specified enough to steam ahead with the implementation |
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| 15 | are roughly as follows (IMHO) :- |
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| 17 | (1) Being able to correlate EXACTLY the XML and GUI design |
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| 18 | to establish semantics of wizard XMLs and completeness and |
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| 19 | sufficiency of both. |
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| 21 | (2) Having an XML mechanism within the wizard to relate GUI |
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| 22 | wigits and corresponding data items within course manifests. |
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| 24 | (3) Becoming familiar enough with RELOAD source to:- |
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| 26 | (i) integrate WCKER |
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| 27 | (ii) use pre-existing RELOAD software for leverage |
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| 29 | I think Dave B. has (1) and (2) much more in hand than I |
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| 30 | and he is gradually refining his ideas so that by the time |
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| 31 | I see the design documents, they should hopefully be in a |
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| 32 | form that can be "spoon fed". |
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| 34 | The Current Situation |
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| 35 | ===================== |
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| 37 | I now have "PAGE 1" of the GUI written using SWT. The wigits |
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| 38 | are all there but the layout has still to be sorted - task for |
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| 39 | tomorrow! |
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| 41 | Possible Future Direction |
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| 42 | ========================= |
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| 44 | http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-JFace%20Wizards/wizardArticle.html |
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| 46 | Eclipse supplies a LOT of high level functionality. There are Java classes |
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| 47 | to help with Wizard development documented here, and what looks like wizard |
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| 48 | descriptions in XML! Perhaps Dave B. may like to check this out. |
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