September 13, 2004
Announcing SolVE
Eric Dolecki asked the question, Darron Schall answered.
I'm pleased to announce a preview release of SolVE v.1. SolVE is a local shared object viewer/editor that runs on both Mac OS X and Windows. Built in Java with IBM's SWT, SolVE looks and behaves like a native application - it should be transparent to the end user that SolVE is powered by Java under the hood.
Currently at version .1, SolVE is still under development but should be stable enough to start using regularly. Not all of the data types are supported yet (the more common ones that I use are), but I'm getting there... There are lists of things I want to do yet and some known issues I need to fix before the 1.0 release on the project page.
If you want to translate SolVE to another language, please let me know. I have almost all of the resource strings defined at this point, so translation should be relatively straightforward.
Full details (as well as download links) are available at the SolVE project page. Stay tuned for more updates...
Comments
nice one!... i hadn't really jumped on the swt bw until i started hacking around with the rcp and so can't believe i hadn't started playing around with this earlier... but yeah! just like u to come up with this one :)... nice one! gotta go have a look at the code... being darronisque, there shd be quite a few to take from it
cheers,
eokyere
Posted by: eokyere at September 13, 2004 11:05 PM
Hi,sir~
[solve]: Can't display Chinese(UTF-8) correctly.
http://dengjie.com/temp/SolVE.gif
Posted by: Danger at September 14, 2004 01:09 AM
Hey Darron - Sweeet! Nice work!
Posted by: Robert M. Hall at September 14, 2004 08:50 AM
The source code isn't available just yet but it's coming - I want to finish the data type buildout before releasing the code. Once that's done I'll apply for a sourceforge page as well to host the project page and CVS repository.
So far I've received offers to translate into French, Bulgarian, and Chinese. Thank you to everyone who has offered support for translations.
I'll investigate the Chinese character display bug. Is it a text display only issue? I'm curious if .sol files support read/write of those characters and if Flash can open a .sol file with double-byte characters, or if I just need to tweak the UI components.
Posted by: darron at September 14, 2004 09:45 AM
Awesome work Darron!
Posted by: Robin Debreuil at September 14, 2004 02:46 PM
About Chinese(or other utf-8 encoded) Characters:
sol always encodes varname and string data as utf-8, (Not A Double-byte),so you must decode it first,(At least in python I should).
I'd written a small python one to handle sol, xml:
you can take a look at http://icube.freezope.org/temp/s2x/s2x.py (full)and a zope ver. at http://icube.freezope.org/temp/util/s2x (parser only)
BUT, if All these works about sol really valuable, I'm wondering.
Posted by: iceeLyne at September 15, 2004 12:06 AM