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dchandler
0f3c4174b6 Made the comments in the my_thdl_preferences.txt file more useful. 2003-06-24 23:48:00 +00:00
dchandler
19d7cabfe6 Forget the final=faster myth. 2003-06-24 03:01:13 +00:00
dchandler
45b87b0fb4 In Jskad, you can now clear the preferences and return to default values. 2003-06-21 01:26:17 +00:00
dchandler
78dc46a979 Jskad keyboards are now configured via keyboards.ini, a file that has
comments that explain its function.  It's quite simple.  This is in
response to Jeff C. H. Wu's request.
2003-05-14 03:25:36 +00:00
dchandler
efa8fc1f25 DuffPane now has the start of a unit test suite. Invoke it via 'ant
clean check'.  Right now there are tests to ensure that typing certain
sequences of keys in the Extended Wylie keyboard gives the expected
Extended Wylie back when "Tools/Convert Tibetan to Wylie" is invoked.

The syntactically illegal d.wa now converts to Tibetan and then back
to d.wa (not dwa, as it did); likewise with the illegal g.wa.  wa
doesn't take any prefixes, but I prefer clean end-to-end
behavior. (jeskd doesn't go end-to-end, though.)

Note that you cannot successfully run the DuffPane tests on a Linux
box unless your DISPLAY variable is set correctly.  Thus, my nightly
builds will fail with an Error (as opposed to a Failure).
2003-04-14 05:22:27 +00:00
dchandler
d200b03d66 Updated the build system so that you must do a cvs checkout of the
'Fonts' module inside the 'Jskad' module.  I.e., you must now have the
tree like so:

Jskad/
   source/
   dist/
   Fonts/
       TibetanMachineWeb/
   .
   .
   .

This is because the THDL tools now optionally (and by default) load
the TibetanMachineWeb fonts automatically.

Updated the build system so that the 'web-start-releases' and
'self-contained-dist' targets JAR up optional JARs to create
double-clickable, self-contained joy.  Even the TMW fonts are in the
JARs now.

Changed the strings describing two Jskad keyboards so that "keyboard"
is no longer in the description.  It's in the label next to the combo
box.

Jskad now saves preferences on exit or when the user selects a menu
item (that is there for debugging mainly) to ~/my_thdl_preferences.txt
on *nix or C:\my_thdl_preferences.txt on Win32.  I don't know the
correct Mac location.

There's a new paradigm for telling org.thdl.util.ThdlOptions that a
user preference has been changed.  If, for example, a combo box is
manipulated so that the ACIP keyboard is selected, then you must call
a certain method in ThdlOptions.
2002-11-18 16:12:25 +00:00
dchandler
cfa4ba4fdb Fixed Javadoc comment. 2002-10-14 05:23:58 +00:00
dchandler
08e4e2fc57 Added a flexible mechanism for persistent boolean-, integer-, and
string-valued preferences built atop java.util.Properties.

How it works: the jvm is asked first, and then the user's prefs file, if it exists,
then the system-wide prefs file, and then the built-in preferences.  Finally, for
robustness, a default may be optionally hard-coded in the source.

I made several things configurable, too:

the default Tibetan keyboard
the default font sizes and faces
whether you want developer-only features enabled
Savant's file extension (.savant)
etc.

The only known problems are the following:

The default location for the user's preferences file is windows-specific,
arbitrary, and not in the user documentation.  Likewise for the location of the
system-wide preferences file.  You can change them using 'java -D', though.

There is no "Save preferences" option yet, and closing the program does
not save preferences either.
2002-10-14 04:06:05 +00:00