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.
release have been updated. The .war file is now deleted after the build
mines it for the goodies. If we use Tomcat or another app server down the
road, we'll be ready to go.
At present, dist/*.jnlp refer to my own personal web server, and the build
system is aware of my personal keystore because creating a JWS release
involves signing JARs. It will be very simple to change this once we have
a real PKI certificate and once we deploy on thdl.org.
Note that Savant and QuillDriver's releases are only half-done right now;
they do not include the XML and JMF libraries yet.
The binary JARs now contain license docs.
There are now four builds for the four faces of the translation tool.
By default, class files will now be compiled for the 1.1 JVM, even if you
use J2SDK 1.4 to compile them. 'ant -Dtarget.jvm=1.2' gives you 1.4's
default. I'm not sure what 1.2 buys us, but it means we don't work on
a large number of JVMs in the field.
Added a 'releases' target that builds Javadocs, binary JARs, and a source
zipfile. It generates double-clickable Jskad and translation tool JARs, but it
does NOT generate double-clickable Savant or QuillDriver jars because
that would require putting jdom/xalan/xml-apis/xercesImpl/jmf JARs onto
the Class-path attribute in the manifest files. That would be a relative path,
though, and until we have an installer, I don't know what to put in there.
That means that, for now, you invoke Savant with
'java -cp jdom.jar;jmf.jar;....;Savant-2002XXXX.jar
org.thdl.savant.SavantShell'
BUT, I've added targets to run all four programs: savant-run, qd-run, tt-run,
and jskad-run.
No longer uses manifests/*. Ant has a <manifest> task that we use instead.
Now uses the source/overview.html file in Javadoc builds.
Added Apache Ant build file, with tasks to do all the usual, plus tasks to make all-in-one binary JAR of Jskad, binary JARs of Savant, QD, and Jskad, several types of source distributions, some fairly nice Javadoc API docs, etc. It's still a work in progress.
