raw notes | The following will probably only make much sense to me...Modification Notes:- v.1.0 - 29/10/2000:
- Now copes with escaped quotes and nested braces.
- Source code is now managed using CVS.
- Barely room to compile it at home!
Needs a brief manual/README and some unix screen-shots!SHOULD:- Allow merging with other .bib files (+filter?). (data from bids!)
- Make cursor keys behave sensibly when the search filter is on.
- try to avoid it showing the browser in init
BUGS:- The whole filename/dir thing gets rather confused when 'saving as' under RISCOS.
- On Acorn: Save As.. saves in the wrong place! Tends to use / instead of . when saving under 'Save As...'.Praps a VM problem?
- Stop the selected entry from being offscreen (This appears to be a general non-characteristic of any Java VM).
COULD:- Handle abbreviations ('@string') properly, ie at all.
- Add a 'Revert'.
- Ask when you quit it, and delete all editors and generally exit gracefully.
- Should always use a pointer to the current entry, instead of copying it off etc.
- Should remember at least the last selected type and use that for new entries.
- Make search-string filtering work live, (no filter button) requires speed!
- Really should sort out ways to minimize redraws etc.
- Store the nav-string in the DatabaseEntry, and only calulate it when edited.
- Add sorting facilities.
- Implement the 'Info...' dialog.
- Rank 'close-up' list entries by required/optional/spurious.
- Allow full cursor-key nagivation.
- Implement multiple selection.
- Allow proper insertion, cutting, pasting, copying etc.
- Implement the mini-editor.
- Check for double entries, mismatched parenthesis, conflictions etc.
- Know when something has been changed. Obviously, it should know when unsaved and go ALERT! when required.
- Warn before deleting an entry(?).
- Tie together/indicate and/or fields.(Radio icons?, extra two columns may solve the spacing problems.)
- Use a messages file for language portability.
- Allow references to be grouped into 'Folders', storing the information in BibTeX comment lines.
- Allow import of BIDS data (any others?).
- Allow formatted export?
- Implement the 'Help...' and 'Preferences...' dialogs.
- Guess the \cite string according to some rules.
- Ability to look-up cite definitions and fields meanings etc (i.e. Help system.)
- Specify the order of the fields for each type in the def file, or somewhere.
- Also, a decent bib-style file generator would be good.
ALSO:- Supply various notes about how well it implements the allowable field combinations (in a brief manual).
- All errors should be reported in a standard SightError Dialog box.
- Is there any way to get remove to work for lists?
- The group may be interested.
- Compiler notes: Sight.java:31: class DatabaseEntry is defined in Database.java. Because it is used outside of its source file, it should be defined in a file called "DatabaseEntry.java".
- The version compiled at work doesn't produce FileDialogs at home (vica versa?)
- When home version is run under Solaris, it produces a NullPointerException in/just after initSightFrame, but not in the Compaq JVM.
- How do I do the SHIFT_MASK stuff (look for KEYDOWN.CONTROL instead?
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Sight: A BibTeX citation file manager
Written in Java 1.0 by Andrew N Jackson
Being run on an OS other than RISC OS…
user.name= anj
user.home= /Home/anj
user.dir = /tmp_mnt/phys/alpha/anj/anj/Docs/Thesis
os.name= Compaq’s Digital UNIX
os.version = V4.0
java.version = 1.1.7B-2
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Being run on an OS other than RISC OS…
user.name= anj
user.home= /Home/anj
user.dir = /phys/alpha/anj/Ideas/Sight
os.name= Solaris
os.version = 2.x
java.version = 1.1.6
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Being run on RISC OS…
user.name= root
user.home=
user.dir = raFS::Sight.$.!Sight
os.name= RISC OS
os.version = 3.x
java.version = pwombwel:11/08/98-13:16
[[Lots of #237 characters]
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Just a thought - could rewrite LivePlot so that is uses stdio, or rather this could be a feature of Danse. |
