Am Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:02:12 -0400 hat Marc Delisle
<DelislMa(a)CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca> geschrieben:
Garvin Hicking wrote:
Regarding the whole Java-thingie, I just have this pragmatic point of
view: What is the alternative to providing an applet for easy PDF
positioning (which is important for everyone seriously using the PDF
feature? I don't see how this can be done with today's techniques, even
though you all keep saying you don't like Java. :)
I did not _say_ it :)
nuke all Java applets! ;-)
Can't easy positionning be done without dragging? just with js and some
clicking?
see
http://javascript.internet.com/games/battleship.html
OK guys, I think, I'll be busy trying to beat this battleship AI for a
while... don't expect quick answers...
Marc, could you code something like that for our PDF creation mechanism?
Personally, I'm not that good at JS. :-(
>
> I mean, it's not that we are forced to develop that applet, but we are
> offered an allegedly working software. I agree with what nijel said
> about maintainability. The suggestion to make a cfg switch for it and
> add a link in our Documentation and/or inside the config file is good
> for me. If we ever decide to upgrade our pdf page generation so that the
> java applet becomes unusable, we are still free to drop it.
>
> How about waiting if this person ever mails back (which he hasn't done
> so far) and let's evaluate that applet from a user's view?
If he/she/it does so, please ask, if someone would keep on working on the
applet in the future. I'm not that experienced with Java, so I won't be
able to work on incoming bug reports etc and I guess I'm not the only
one... :-)
Regards,
Alexander M. Turek
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