Am Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:02:12 -0400 hat Marc Delisle DelislMa@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