Prototype Stuff in Repository 
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PNG WCKER flickerbook
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Java versions of Page 1 (simplest and complete) and Page 7 (most complex and under
development) of the PNG WCKER flickerbook (that's storyboard for the cineasts amongst us)
are now under version control on:

http://waterbuck.conted.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/browser/repo1/trunk/prototypes/swt/

"make page1.run" will compile and run the code to draw Page 1

"make page7.run" will compile and run the code to draw Page 7


XML Access from Java
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Some prototype code is in here.

http://waterbuck.conted.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/browser/repo1/trunk/prototypes/jdom/

"make" will make the code; "run" will execute the code.

Beware
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You make have to change some of the scripts to match the environment on your machine.

Conclusion and Next Step
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The SWT looks much more promising as a robust GUI for WCKER. There are still a few
things I've got to persuade it to do ... but I suspect they should be possible.

The point of putting things in the repository is so Dave B. can pick these bits
up and run with them. There are a number of areas where help would be useful and
welcome and I have communicated these to Dave B.

The Eclipse API is documented on:

http://jlab.net/eclipse/doc/2.1/api/index.html

It's not that fast a web-site - can you locate me a faster one! :-)

Anyhow, I imagine that drawing "Page 7" will take to the end of this week
(a horizontal slice) and that by the end of next week we should have a
tall-thin application (vertical slice). It is that presence/absence of this
"vertical slice" the will convince me whether the project as a whole
has been sufficiently tightly specified or not!
	

			David




				David

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