On 2 Apr 2008, at 8:38 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > Alexandre and I have made some progress on the DBLP front offlist, and > I'll hopefully have a working search group to contribute in the next > couple of days. > > Question: DBLP queries need a start/end year as input. What would be > good UI for that? Inventing another custom query syntax is possible, > but not very attractive. > > One route would just be to add a couple of date pickers, but that gets > messy with the various controller/group/document interactions, since > it > would only be used for one group class. > > Having a token-field-like searchfield that passed token objects to the > groups might be an option, if groups could handle the transformation > to > CCL or WoS queries. With that in mind, I wrote a Lex/Yacc parser a > long > time ago for WoS search strings, but it crapped out on non-ascii > characters. I never finished converting the grammar to ANTLR, which > at > least supports UCS-2. > > Maybe the 10.5 NSRuleEditor would be useful, with a group class as > delegate. I haven't looked at it in any detail. >
These questions are precisely why I want to stay away from any servers that don't support a query string. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-develop mailing list Bibdesk-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop
