LEMDO

May 9, 2018

Conversion

Posted by on 09 May 2018 in Activity log

Lots and lots of work on the conversion code and converting the DRE texts. Tried three (1HW, 2HW, AHDM) and they only required a few small tweaks to get them working. The annotations and XWiki documents are also working, which was a nice surprise. The code had to be tweaked a fair bit and it certainly requires some better documentation, but it's coming along

Also created a new build in conversion/buildEverything.xml. This code calls the three other builds (buildSgml, buildApparatus, buildXWiki) so that we can build a number of documents fully. There is now a parameter for works, which is a list of works (AYL, H5, MND) and the build iterates over the list, doing the full conversion for each work. Worked well for DRE. (To note: each individual build works by itself and does not depend on buildEverything in any way.)

May 8, 2018

ANT Java dialogs appearing behind oXygen fix

Posted by on 08 May 2018 in Activity log

Pop up dialog boxes created from embedded Javascript in Ant were appearing behind oXygen, which wasn't very user friendly. I posted a ticket on the Oxygen forum (https://www.oxygenxml.com/forum/topic16346.html) and the solution suggested worked. Basically, I had to create an empty JFrame and then place the other dialog boxes on top of them. It slows down the process slightly, but I'd rather sacrifice speed for usability. Code below posted for future reference:


                //Create a new Jframe

                var frame = new javax.swing.JFrame();

                

                //Set it on top

                frame.setAlwaysOnTop( true );

                

                //Set location

                frame.setLocationByPlatform( true );

                frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);

                

                //Close it when it closes

                frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

                

                //No decoration

                frame.setUndecorated(true);

                

                //Display it

                frame.pack();

                frame.setVisible(true);

                

                //Now get the inputter for the message

                var inputter = new javax.swing.JOptionPane();

                

                //Put the dialog there and show the message with the frame as its parent.

                var message = javax.swing.JOptionPane.showInputDialog(frame, "Please enter a short message summarizing what you did today.");

                

                //If the message is empty, break.

                if (message.isEmpty()){

                    javax.swing.JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "No message entered. Aborting.");

                    throw "Process cancelled. Aborting!";

                }

                

                //Set the message property in ANT

                project.setProperty("message", message);

Jenkins job and new build

Posted by on 08 May 2018 in Activity log

Got the Jenkins job working with the LEMDO name and a new build up and running after a request for the id page from JL. I've split the id list generation code out from diagnostics.

I've also combined the username and password getting Javascript into one dialog box, which is much nicer for the user--it's a much more familiar look and feel.

May 7, 2018

More work on editor packages

Posted by on 07 May 2018 in Activity log

Editor packages are working well now on my machine and the instruction documents are starting to come together. We need to start testing cross-platform, which is the next step.

May 6, 2018

Editor packages in oXygen

Posted by on 06 May 2018 in Activity log

Lots of work done today on editor packages in oXygen. I've now put the schematron within the ODD file, have it building out in the proper files (thanks to MH's code), and have a nice validation suite working. In data/tools/, there's a file called "validate.html"; editors can open it up, press the play button, and all of their files are validated.

I've modified MH's process schematron code slightly so that it doesn't fail immediately if it finds an error; it compiles all the errors first and prints out the message, and then fails. I like this a bit more, since I would likely use this code when debugging/testing the ODD, etc, and it's nice to see all the errors all at once.

The setup and updating builds are both working nicely; still not cross-OS compatible, but otherwise they're nearly ready to be used, I think. However, the committing stuff is melting my brain. I've looked at both svnant (http://subclipse.tigris.org/svnant.html) and svntask, and tried nearly everything I could find online, but nothing seems to work. More work to be done there.

Edit: I was misspelling the variable (I was passing ${password} and not ${pwd}). A very silly mistake, which I will chalk up to the combination of travel, conferencing, and sun over the last few days.

May 4, 2018

Work on SVN packages

Posted by on 04 May 2018 in Activity log

Got the first SVN package working, thanks to MH's advice yesterday. It is working on my machine, but we'll have to test consistently across machines and OS. Still need to make it compatible for Windows, but so far it's working nicely. I still need to write the code to get schemas and oxygen XPR files. That will still take some time, but I think the commit / up stuff should go faster. I'll write these three first, and then do the template files.

Working on summer plans

Posted by on 04 May 2018 in Activity log

With JJ and MH, figured out summer plans for LEMDO.

May 1, 2018

LEMDO restructuring

Posted by on 01 May 2018 in Activity log

The LEMDO repository is now restructured and renamed. Save for a likely few errant strings, everything should now be "emd"(early modern drama) or "lemdo". It came together quite quickly and enabled me to fix some things in the code. We'll still have to fix the conversion code (esp. in regards to paths), but that should be fairly straightforward.

Also started to work on the oXygen/ANT utilities for editors. oXygen editor variables (even the password ones) are not right; they are passed as parameters to the ant build, which show up in the ANT text stream at the bottom of oXygen, which is no good. The ant input element doesn't work either, since there is no way for ANT to work through the oXygen IDE (as far as I can tell, at least). After some research, I found an okay solutioon using javascript; although I struggled with the whole Nashorn/Rhino thing. I did this
load("nashorn:mozilla_compat.js"); which I got from stackexchange here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14835882/apache-ant-gets-frozen-while-running-this-script and here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22503100/java-8-javascript-engine-backwards-compatibility. I'll need to consult with others though, since I'm not all too familiar with this stuff. It works, however, and seems secure. Lots more work to do.

April 30, 2018

Playing around with ANT/CSS/Author mode

Posted by on 30 Apr 2018 in Activity log

Attempting to work with author mode, CSS, and ANT. It only works if the ANT file isn't prefixed by "build" (i.e. not associated with ANT in oXygen) and you have to work around the lack of flexibility in the ANT's XML. You can more or less force it by putting an @el='blah' on the description element; you don't get hierarchical XML, but it might be enough for a simple ANT file with some documentation.

Data structure

Posted by on 30 Apr 2018 in Activity log

Met with JJ and MH to discuss the repository structure for the LEMDO project. There was confusion to be hashed out, but we ultimately came up with a structure that I think works well. It is being forwarded to the major stakeholders to be approved.

We've also come up with the short form "emd" as a prefix