Hi Don,
That's awesome! I was thinking of a cross between the UI of WinZip (i.e.,
big toolbar icons, etc.) and 7-Zip (small cheesy icons, big file browser area).
The idea would be to have clean, flat icons and maybe a split pane window with
potential source files on the left and target (compressed files) on the right?
Or maybe you have two tabs at the top: "Compress" and "Decompress" which would
switch these two panes around.... I'm not sure, just throwing ideas around.
But definitely if you have ideas, please feel free to experiment.
But, given that Pivot has several forms of file browser available,
including one that leverages Commons VFS, it might be better to have the main
window be the compressed targets and use the file browsers for the "Add To"
file list and the "Save To" / "Expand to" target directory. But again, just
thinking aloud.
I should mention that the VFS file browser is not in the released Pivot
code (i.e., the 2.0.4 version or the 2.0.x branch), but only in "trunk". But
building "trunk" is quite easy once you get the code: put Junit in the class
path and run "ant clean package".
So, I guess I'd like to see the Pivot Commons VFS file browser really put
to the test also -- I wrote it, but have only really used it with my own VFS
file system, and for HDFS files. But, it would be awesome to be able to
navigate to an HDFS file system, open up a zip file from there and expand it to
a local directory (for instance). I don't know of any other utility out there
that can do that....
I'd like to help however I can, plus definitely if you need help with
Pivot, don't be afraid to ask. You can subscribe to the Pivot mailing list(s)
as well for help....
Many thanks,
~Roger
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From: Donald Freeman <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 2, 2015 1:04 PM
To: Commons Developers List; Commons Developers List
Subject: Re: [COMPRESS] Compress GUI?
Roger,
I did go back and look at your previous email and had seen that you mentioned
pivot. I started the initial workings of a project last night and started to
read a little about pivot. I think I could pull it off given a few weeks time.
Do you have any ideas of what you were thinking of from the design standpoint
or should I just work something up and see where it goes? Thoughts???
From:"Roger Whitcomb" <[email protected]>
Date:Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:41 PM
Subject:Re: [COMPRESS] Compress GUI?
Well, being that I'm the Apache Pivot PMC Chair, I was looking for
"cross-fertilization" opportunities. So, my preferred GUI environment would be
Apache Pivot. Of course, you're probably not familiar with it, but I think the
resultant GUIs are easier to build and better-looking than Swing. And one of
the original architects of Pivot then went on to work on JavaFX, so we're
pretty sure that Pivot has a good pedigree....
~Roger
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From: Donald Freeman <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2015 5:07 AM
To: Commons Developers List; Commons Developers List
Subject: Re: [COMPRESS] Compress GUI?
I could possibly come up with some time over the next several weeks to work on
the UI. What technology were you thinking Swing, JavaFX??? I am not really that
familiar with compress so I may need some help with the library itself.
From:"Stefan Bodewig" <[email protected]>
Date:Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 7:22 AM
Subject:Re: [COMPRESS] Compress GUI?
On 2015-10-30, Roger Whitcomb wrote:
> Any thoughts? Anyone who might be interested in helping with such a
> project?
TBH, I hate doing GUI stuff. :-)
I can easily see that a GUI for Compress would be nice, though. If
people want to work on a GUI and need help dealing with the Compress
library itself, I'll be happy to lend a hand. The GUI and the Compress
library should be separate artifacts IMHO.
Stefan
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