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dchandler
02558a1d78 Jskad supports <7, >8, etc. again; it no longer supports the punctuation
'<' and '>'.  The current keyboard implementation makes this an either-or
proposition, when fundamentally it need not be.

Added a <?Numbers?> command and an <?Input:Numbers?> command to
tibwn.ini; broke the numbers apart from the consonants.  This facilitates the
new-and-improved Tibetan->Wylie conversion.

Tibetan->Wylie is now done by forming legal tsheg-bars.  A legal tsheg bar
is converted into perfect THDL Wylie.  See code comments to learn what
it thinks is a legal tsheg-bar, but it inlcudes bskyUMbsH minus the trailing
punctuation (H), e.g.

Illegal sequences, such as runs of transliterated Sanskrit, are turned into
unambiguous Wylie; each glyph is followed by a vowel or a disambiguator
('.').

I've made it so that the illegal sequences are as beautiful as possible.  You
get 'pad+me', for example, not the equivalent but uglier 'pad+m.e.'.
2003-07-08 14:30:17 +00:00
dchandler
c04a3f189b Rearranged the topics. 2003-07-08 12:50:27 +00:00
dchandler
24ac6fd06c The Trie of possible inputs fixed this bug. 2003-07-06 16:31:13 +00:00
dchandler
d88141512b Small changes w.r.t. clearing preferences. Some code cleanup. 2003-07-06 16:24:29 +00:00
dchandler
086f4bb6ec Renamed the Info menu Help.
Now using CalHTMLPane to surf the offline and the online help.
2003-07-05 22:25:21 +00:00
dchandler
8c4ab30a52 Rearranged the Tools menu; made the converter smart about "find some..."
and "find all..." modes.
2003-07-05 21:02:46 +00:00
dchandler
72d2eee503 Code cleanup. 2003-07-05 19:26:58 +00:00
dchandler
a463b686b3 Jskad now ships with both TibetanMachine and TibetanMachineWeb fonts
by default, not just TMW.  Thus users need not install these fonts on their
systems.
2003-07-05 18:00:29 +00:00
dchandler
9effee0564 If you opened a file from the recently opened files list and very quickly
mouse-clicked on the new Jskad window, you could cause an infinite
regression of requestFocus() operations because the menu would try
to get focus back.  I grab focus from the menu now.
2003-07-05 02:30:00 +00:00
dchandler
51679c158b Final fixes completed; recently opened files can now be selected from
Jskad's file menu.
2003-07-05 02:15:33 +00:00
dchandler
4410b52c07 There's still a small bug in this, but here's the real stuff:
Recently opened files can now be selected from Jskad's file menu.

A Jskad now gives the focus to the DuffPane when that Jskad gets the
focus.
2003-07-04 03:29:25 +00:00
dchandler
d863446d25 I think *this* compiles... 2003-07-04 02:32:40 +00:00
dchandler
407020108f I didn't mean to commit the previous revision; I'm still tweaking it. 2003-07-04 02:32:03 +00:00
dchandler
9f0b1c3250 Recently opened files can now be selected from Jskad's file menu.
A Jskad now gives the focus to the DuffPane when that Jskad gets the
focus.
2003-07-04 02:31:23 +00:00
dchandler
7500b4e06b Jskad won't allow you to exit by closing the last window anymore. Instead,
you get a dialog box saying to use File/Exit.
2003-07-04 00:21:07 +00:00
dchandler
6c286573ba Fixed Javadocs. 2003-07-04 00:12:59 +00:00
dchandler
0a1bc0d30b getWylie now takes a parameter for error detection; I'm not detecting errors
here though.

Fixed a typo in a property name.
2003-07-01 23:20:08 +00:00
dchandler
a48ec641d5 Better error messages in TMW->Wylie conversions. The user knows what's
up.
2003-07-01 03:43:33 +00:00
dchandler
e7e7c2bf15 The command-line tool runs in headless mode by default, so it will
work on a Linux console, e.g.  The JUnit tests will too, though 'ant
check' still fails because we don't sneak the -Djava.awt.headless=true
into the process early enough.
2003-07-01 02:50:09 +00:00
dchandler
6151a7bc94 TMW->Wylie now occurs in the TibetanDocument, not in DuffPane,
which means that the command-line tool can finally function with a headless
graphics device.  Hopefully it will speed things up, too.  It also means that
entering Roman text into the TMW->Unicode conversion and TMW->TM
conversion will be easy.
2003-07-01 01:21:57 +00:00
dchandler
dc03083433 I've validated by hand the TM<->TMW mappings. A few things changed, so
no previous TM->TMW conversions can be trusted.
2003-06-30 02:22:09 +00:00
dchandler
58644a6ef9 Better error handling. 2003-06-30 02:20:52 +00:00
dchandler
aedef4b44d An error now appears if you try to convert from format A to format B but no
glyphs in format A appear.  In this case, it is likely that you meant to convert
a different file or do a different conversion.
2003-06-29 21:31:48 +00:00
dchandler
ee14b7b97f Jskad now has the ability to open its buffer with an external viewer, e.g.
Microsoft Word.

Better OOM error handling in the GUI converter; untested, though.
2003-06-29 20:49:30 +00:00
dchandler
646e23b4a4 Tweaked the converter GUI so that you can open the old and the new files
with the external viewer.
2003-06-29 16:45:15 +00:00
dchandler
b841a7f14b The converter GUI can now be run standalone or from Jskad's Tools menu.
The converter GUI gives nicer error messages in at least one case.
2003-06-29 04:18:36 +00:00
dchandler
7938648ca8 TM->TMW conversion has no known bugs. Oddballs have been
comprehensively handled.
2003-06-29 03:03:07 +00:00
dchandler
c39d8d6326 My earlier code cleanup introduced this bug; TMW->TM conversion was
busted.
2003-06-26 22:48:51 +00:00
dchandler
25510542b2 Now with a nicer error message in one case. 2003-06-26 22:48:05 +00:00
dchandler
c34259b105 Code cleanup. 2003-06-25 01:04:24 +00:00
dchandler
9e6c3009ac Added an About button. Code cleanup. Changed the Cancel button to the
Close button.
2003-06-25 00:49:11 +00:00
dchandler
33beb7b782 Bye bye debugging output. 2003-06-24 12:23:37 +00:00
dchandler
f547734043 Added Than's converter GUI code; adapted it to work with Jskad's
converters.

TMW->Unicode now uses Ximalaya by default.
2003-06-24 03:02:29 +00:00
dchandler
917864574c Fixed a logic bug in mapTMWtoTM and mapTMtoTMW.
You can now specify which Unicode font to use via 'java
-Dthdl.tmw.to.unicode.font=Ximalaya ...'.
2003-06-23 01:58:11 +00:00
dchandler
afe73c2228 The pseudo-file '-', referring to standard input, is now accepted as a
command-line argument.
2003-06-22 21:05:16 +00:00
dchandler
900f7492b0 'ant clean check' was failing because I hadn't updated the
--find-some-non-tmw and --find-all-non-tmw baselines.

Code cleanup.
2003-06-22 16:11:58 +00:00
dchandler
66287f3cc9 Small TMW->Wylie performance improvements. TMW->Wylie is *much*
faster than TMW->Unicode etc.; this is because many fewer replacements
are made (i.e., more text is replaced each time a replacement is
performed).

I must find a way to still preserve formatting but do many fewer
replacements in TMW->{Unicode,TM} and TM->TMW.
2003-06-22 04:32:59 +00:00
dchandler
dfe64a1927 Added --find-some-non-tm and --find-all-non-tm modes to the converter to
help ensure worry-free TM->TMW conversions.
2003-06-22 00:14:18 +00:00
dchandler
9a41f512d9 It used to be the case that you could select 'Close', and then when asked
"do you want to save?" you could press yes and then press cancel and
Jskad would still exit.  That's no longer the case.

Added File->Exit to Jskad.
2003-06-21 02:07:51 +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
eg3p
fbb6245fdb Added cut() and copy() methods to override JTextPane's methods of same name. 2003-06-20 15:27:20 +00:00
dchandler
ced830a7d3 Renamed TMW_RTF_TO_THDL_WYLIE TibetanConverter. 2003-06-15 19:19:23 +00:00
dchandler
34a7b5da9b This converter now performs TMW->Unicode conversions. 2003-06-15 18:38:42 +00:00
dchandler
da70434e52 Jskad now allows for TMW->Unicode conversion. 2003-06-15 16:27:36 +00:00
dchandler
651a599188 Fixed usage info. 2003-06-08 23:23:12 +00:00
dchandler
212414edef TMW_RTF_TO_THDL_WYLIE now converts TM->TMW. 2003-06-08 22:43:27 +00:00
dchandler
0f724989b5 The Wylie 'M' used to map to TMW7.91, when it should map to TMW7.90.
I've fixed that.

I've also added a couple of Unicode mappings to give a flavor for how
multi-codepoint mappings will be represented.

TM->TMW conversion takes about 1 second per thousand glyphs on my
PIII-550.
2003-06-01 23:05:32 +00:00
dchandler
7a8264d87c Fixed typo. 2003-06-01 03:30:49 +00:00
dchandler
0235263ddf TM->TMW and TMW->TM conversion in RTF is now supported. I've
noticed that formatting is mostly OK but sometimes gets bungled slightly.
I tried everything I could think of, and now I'm passing the buck to Java's
RTF support.

TMW_RTF_TO_THDL_WYLIE (now misnamed) support TMW->TM
conversion (but not TM->TMW).  There is an automated test case for a
TMW->TM conversion.

I have full confidence in this conversion.  Even the smallest glitch in the core
functionality (not formatting) would surprise me.

Note that the JUnit test TMW_RTF_TO_THDL_WYLIETest sometimes fails
due to one- or two-line diffs between the actual and expected outputs.  This
is because Java's RTF support is not deterministic, I'm guessing, and is not
a real failure.  I'm too lazy to make a more elaborate sed/diff mechanism
that works on all platforms, and that would complicate the build anyway.
2003-05-31 23:21:29 +00:00
dchandler
08d2ea3e2d Jeff C. H. Wu found a bug whereby typing 'cuig' just after starting Jskad fails
(by producing 'cug') although typing 'kcuig' succeeds.

This is now fixed, and test cases now exist to ensure that the problem
doesn't reappear.
2003-05-31 12:58:36 +00:00
dchandler
bc9a8f4754 Jeff C. H. Wu found a bug whereby typing 'cuig' just after starting Jskad fails
(by producing 'cug') although typing 'kcuig' succeeds.

This is now fixed.
2003-05-31 12:49:44 +00:00
dchandler
6f0390c5d6 By default (controllable via options.txt), Jskad now fixes the Tahoma curly
brace problem upon opening any RTF document.

The TMW_RTF_TO_THDL_WYLIE test baselines changed because
I fixed (a while ago) some inconsistencies between the EWTS standard and
Jskad.

Conversion of TibetanMachineWeb8.40, @#, to Wylie now works correctly.

Unfortunately, though, typing @# doesn't produce 8.40, it still produces
8.38 and 8.39, two glyphs.
2003-05-28 00:40:59 +00:00
dchandler
ec7fec695f Added some automated JUnit tests for TMW_RTF_TO_THDL_WYLIE. 2003-05-18 17:17:52 +00:00
dchandler
e2a9720d9b I've added a command-line converter,
org.thdl.tib.input.TMW_RTF_TO_THDL_WYLIE.  It converts RTF files
consisting of TMW characters to the corresponding THDL Extended Wylie.

It supports --find-some-non-tmw mode, which allows you to ensure that no
unusual characters will spoil the conversion.  The converter has built-in
intelligence that allows it to handle Tahoma '{', '}', and '\\' characters
properly.

The converter works on mixed Roman/TMW also, but --find-some-non-tmw
and --find-all-non-tmw modes are not as useful.

Invoke org.thdl.tib.input.TMW_RTF_TO_THDL_WYLIE, which resides in
Jskad's jar, with no command-line options to see usage information.
2003-05-18 14:14:47 +00:00
dchandler
17ea8fdf2a Copying from Word XP used to crash Jskad sometimes. Now you get a
dialog box telling you something about RTF support in Java.
2003-05-15 01:41:56 +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
8275afeb41 Bad RTF files cause a polite error message to appear instead of an
exception to be thrown.

Jskad windows now always have "Jskad" in their window titles.
2003-05-14 01:34:39 +00:00
eg3p
3e847ed009 DELETE was not working properly in Roman entry mode.
Now it works ok.
2003-04-17 19:48:22 +00:00
amontano
0bacdcc229 fixed the paste problem for the translation tool 2003-04-17 11:12:59 +00:00
dchandler
59175ccfd6 Added a few tests for the ACIP keyboard, which I've improved a bit.
Noted some failures.  "Fixed" the code to do what I want it to do for
the (no sanskrit stacking, tibetan stacking) case [which is exercised
by this keyboard only].
2003-04-14 23:55:00 +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
644c0d3801 Updated the HTML help file; removed some useless code. 2003-04-13 01:17:10 +00:00
dchandler
66e34aadfd Code cleanup -- removed cruft. 2003-04-12 16:28:56 +00:00
eg3p
995817eb98 no message 2003-04-08 12:14:03 +00:00
eg3p
df4f8b8a45 processRomanChar now sets aside formatting
like TAB, ENTER, etc.
2003-04-07 19:41:48 +00:00
eg3p
275cf9d79d Improved handling of backspace based on my understanding
of various known Java bugs. Those who mess around with
backspace take note of the following:

The Java bug database has several related bugs concerning the treatment
of backspace. Here I adopt solution based on fix of bug 4402080:
Evaluation  The text components now key off of KEY_TYPED with a keyChar == 8 to do the
deletion. The motivation for this can be found in bug 4256901.
xxxxx@xxxxx 2001-01-05
2003-04-07 16:41:49 +00:00
amontano
341bea3c16 Added a line to the paste method so that if text is selected, the pasted text substitute the selected text. 2003-04-03 05:17:40 +00:00
eg3p
7a495bc720 Made the following changes: (1) renamed DuffPane's copySelection, pasteSelection, etc. to copy, paste and so forth, which override JTextComponent's methods by those names: Andres, please change the translation tool accordingly to use these new methods if that it necessary; (2) in order to allow for easier integration of Jskad with other tools such as QuillDriver, I changed DuffPane to rely on a Keymap instead of a KeyListener for its default key intercepts; this addresses the comments to bug 617156. Note that I have been working on Mac OS X and have not extensively tested my changes on a PC yet. 2003-04-02 20:37:14 +00:00
dchandler
9e0dc68d12 Feature Request 697358 is done. The working directory for Jskad is
now a preference.

In addition, Jskad now raises an error dialog when you try to "Save
As" to a bad place or open a file that doesn't exist or isn't
readable.
2003-03-11 01:03:19 +00:00
dchandler
e6a10d052f Added a "Help" menu item that pulls up jskad_doc.html, which is now put
into Jskad's JAR file.

Doing so required that I cut out a lot of fancy HTML code.  The correct fix
is to use XML to store the meat and then use XSL to generate two forms of
HTML: one dumb enough for Java, one for use on the THDL tools website.
2003-02-01 06:42:07 +00:00
dchandler
53aa2e2309 Added jskad_doc.html (a revision of which is up at
http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/tools/jskad_doc.html) to the repository.  The
build puts this into Jskad's JARs, but Jskad itself does not allow for viewing
it.  In Java, that's a ten-minute job, but I haven't done it.
2002-12-07 17:53:24 +00:00
eg3p
d14aa87fda Removed egotistical self-reference from About Jskad text. 2002-12-04 16:02:16 +00:00
amontano
c13adf9d14 now having copied a selection, if you paste it over selected text, the selected text is substituted with the text being pasted. 2002-11-27 23:29:31 +00:00
dchandler
07fe242596 Very minor cleanup to fix Javadocs and make the source code more
readable; comments added.
2002-11-18 21:33:44 +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
5ffb813019 Jskad's "About" dialog box now lists the time of compilation. Ant
creates source/org/thdl/util/ThdlVersion.java when you execute the
jskad-compile target.
2002-11-16 19:18:44 +00:00
eg3p
c9349f6846 These files are not used. 2002-11-12 16:47:02 +00:00
dchandler
04da61688d A DuffPane is now a TibetanPane. A TibetanPane is much more lightweight
but does line breaks correctly.  I.e., I refactored DuffPane into two classes.

I did this trying to track down a subtle bug in line breaking: 'gye ' breaks
after 'gy' sometimes, with the dreng bo on the next line, but only when you
resize the window certain ways, and only in Savant (and maybe QD and the
translation tool, I don't know) but not in Jskad.

I was not successful in finding the bug, but it still exists when I use
TibetanPanes instead of DuffPanes in org.thdl.savant.tib.*.
2002-11-08 04:05:06 +00:00
dchandler
86e384352b Jskad's "Do you want to save your changes before you quit?" dialog is now
optional.
2002-11-08 03:58:35 +00:00
dchandler
22141248e7 Terribly minor cleanup. 2002-11-03 17:05:44 +00:00
dchandler
7adfddfb43 Fixed my fix to the "Jskad freezes on impossible input" bug.
Typing 'lKU' in Extended Wylie is now equivalent to 'lU'.  I'm not sure if
this is a change or not.
2002-11-03 17:05:05 +00:00
dchandler
de6ae79959 Fixes bug 624133, "Input freezes after impossible character". Try 'shsM' in
ACIP or 'ShSm' in Extended Wylie to see the new behavior.

We use a trie to store valid input sequences.  In the future, we could use
the same trie as a replacement for the more inefficient HashSets we use to
store characters, vowels, and punctuation.  For example, we'd use
'validInputSequences.put("K", new Pair("consonant", "k"))' when reading
in the ACIP keyboard's description of the first consonant of the Tibetan
alphabet in 'TibetanKeyboard.java'.

Note that the current trie implementation is only useful for 7- or 8-bit
transcription systems, and works best for tries with low average depth, which
describes a transcription system's trie very well.  If you used arbitrary
Unicode in your keyboard, you'd need a different trie implementation.

Improved the optional keyboard input mode status messages.
2002-11-02 18:44:24 +00:00
dchandler
a6cc4a7ff3 Removed/commented out/tagged some unused local variables.
Added a JUnit test for the new Trie that fails at present since the Trie is
case-insensitive.  Running JUnit tests is not something our build system
knows about at present, but Eclipse 2.0 makes it very easy.

Fixed a few compiler errors due to imports I'd forgotten.
2002-11-02 16:01:40 +00:00
dchandler
29042638e2 In the ACIP keyboard, 'KEE' and 'KOO', which are equivalent to Wylie's
'kai' and 'kau', now work.

The optional status messages have been improved.
2002-11-02 05:21:12 +00:00
dchandler
abcf8f19b3 Factored TibetanDocument into two classes, one that is a
DefaultStyledDocument, and another consisting entirely of static utility
methods for processing Tibetan text.  Moved TibetanDocument.DuffData
into its own class.

I think this makes things a bit more transparent, and gets us a little closer to
making clean use of Swing.
2002-11-02 03:38:59 +00:00
dchandler
1ecbfe6a7c Fixed some Javadoc comments in preparation for putting up new Javadocs
on http://thdltools.sf.net/.
2002-10-28 04:49:24 +00:00
dchandler
0ad135f8f1 This may well be a fix to the "Improper line wrapping" bug. The fix
is basically that we use our own special ViewFactory, with a new
subclass of LabelView (the view RTFEditorKit uses for the nitty
gritty) that is aware of Tibetan.

There are a couple of nasty hacks still here, and Swing's
documentation for doing what I did was quite poor.  I searched the web
for hours, read the Javadocs and the tutorials, and consulted a Swing
reference book, but I still don't have tremendous confidence in this
solution.  If it fundamentally doesn't work, though, we have to define
our own first-class Document, Element hierarchy, ViewFactory, Views,
and EditorKit.  So let's hope it *does* work fundamentally.

I can't say for sure if this even works, as I have yet to run this
code on a machine where Jskad works properly.  I had major trouble
installing the TMW fonts on Linux, and have yet to resolve it, even
after verifying via xlsfonts that the fonts were installed and then
changing TibetanMachineWeb.java to look for them.  Because I haven't
tested this yet, a lot of nasty code is tagged 'DLC' and commented
out.
2002-10-28 03:08:04 +00:00
dchandler
f26dd53da3 Changed the build so that Savant and QuillDriver's builds include
Smart*Player.java, which are accessed via reflection.  Cleaned up the
code a bit so that it would compile in so doing.

Changed the 'options.txt' preferences file to reflect the new method
of selecting media players.
2002-10-27 19:12:13 +00:00
amontano
7336d27a33 fixing the copy-paste issue for the translation tool. 2002-10-26 18:15:34 +00:00
dchandler
b6b8cd73ff Moved JskadKeyboard-related code into separate files; made many things public. 2002-10-26 17:40:51 +00:00
eg3p
27dfa66b02 Ongoing work with Andres to change paste so that
isRomanEnabled = false implies auto conversion
of Wylie to Tibetan. Doesn't work yet.
2002-10-25 19:47:14 +00:00
eg3p
91b8fd3cd9 Edited JskadKeyboard code slightly so that it is
easier to use these keyboards outside of Jskad
(for example from QuillDriver).
2002-10-25 19:41:43 +00:00
amontano
a2e8acca39 almost working but not quite 2002-10-25 17:59:27 +00:00
eg3p
d45a58e1ba Changed paste so that if (isRomanEnabled = false),
it will assume the text is Wylie and convert it to
Tibetan.
2002-10-25 17:34:30 +00:00
dchandler
f6bcc49119 Fixed a bug I introduced when I made Tibetan keyboards more modular. 2002-10-23 04:03:17 +00:00
dchandler
4eda412cb5 The enter and tab keys were causing edits regardless of setEditable(false);
this is now fixed.

Minor clean-up resulting from my aborted refactoring of the keyboard event
handling code.
2002-10-22 03:53:33 +00:00
dchandler
4c0026ab4f Removed the old installKeyboard routines. 2002-10-20 08:25:10 +00:00
dchandler
dc53ded878 Adding a new Tibetan keyboard now requires merely copying and pasting
3 lines.  Quick reference .rtf files (on the Info menu) are optional.

Added a first try at an ACIP keyboard.  At the very least, ACIP's "GHA"
is busted.
2002-10-20 08:02:16 +00:00
dchandler
0097be4266 Fixed bug 617156, "DuffPane ignores setEditable(false)".
I fixed this the easy way, by checking the value of isEditable() before
cutting, pasting, or adding typed text.  I may have missed a spot, but
checking at a lower level is a bit less efficient.

Fixing this the hard way, the keymaps-and-overridden-default-action way,
seems like it will make the code uglier, not cleaner.  And it won't get us
closer to fixing the killer bug, 614475, "Improper Line Wrapping".
2002-10-20 05:54:29 +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