Great! Can't wait to see it! On 12/15/05, Alexander R Pruss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having worked on a variety of shareware projects (mainly FontSmoother > and mySkin), I'm back to Plucker coding, continuing to plug away at > new annotation code. I am using Mike's (I think) idea to have a > database coded by uid, paragraph, and index in paragraph, so we can > do quick binary searching for any given annotation. The annotation > databases will be shareable, though they are keyed to a particular > version of a document. The current code will not allow overlapping > annotations, but there will be room to grow. The annotation database > format will be straightforward enough that it will be possible to > write an extractor on the desktop side, and to write merge software > (at least once overlapping annotations are done). > > One thing I really hate doing is UI code. (Yes, I am sure you can > tell. FontSmoother is ample testimony.) There is one bit of UI code > that should be done. Currently, there is code to attach an > annotation (or highlight--highlights are just no-text annotations) to > a word, but no code to attach an annotation to a range of text. It > would be nice if it were possible to drag-select a bunch of text for > annotation purposes. This isn't as easy it sounds as we do not have > character positions available anywhere, except in the actual > rendering code. (In fact, word-selection was harder to code than it > seemed. I originally coded it for dictionary lookup, but since it > has been extended for use with annotations.) If anybody who knows > the paragraph.c code well has ideas on how best to do range > selection, those would be welcome. If anybody wants to volunteer to > write that part of the code, that would be even more welcome. :-) > > Any thoughts on overlapping annotations and overlapping anchors > (annotations get converted to a special kind of anchor by the > rendering code) are welcome, too. > > Best wishes, > Alex > > > -- > Alexander R Pruss > Assistant Professor > Department of Philosophy > Georgetown University > > www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85 > > > _______________________________________________ > plucker-dev mailing list > plucker-dev@rubberchicken.org > http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev >
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