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What are the files in this directory for?
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is directory contains a very buggy text editor
which may be able to save to an ssh server.
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What is the main application class here?
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The EditPanel class is the main application file. It contains
a main method which should start the editor. The SimpleEditPanel
is similar but does not contain any support for saving to
an ssh server.
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What is the status of the editor?
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The editor is not really usable because it does not save
properly.
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What does the WindMillLabel class do?
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It provides a gui label which animates an ascii character
spinning around. It was intended to provide information to
the user when some process is being carried out.
It should become a general ProgressDisplay class or implement
the ProgressDisplay interface. A ProgressDisplay would
provide a way to show the work being carried out by another
object, such as a Task object, but the ProgressDisplay would not
need to know about the nature of that work. It could have
methods such as 'showTotalWork' and 'showChunkWork'. In a console
environment, the showChunkWork method might just print a dot
or other marker to the console to indicate that a chunk of the
work has been carried out, for example, a certain percentage or
number of bytes of a file has been downloaded.
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Do the batch scripts work?
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In this directory are a number of batch scripts such as
'compile.bat' and 'run.bat'. Obviously these only work on a
Microsoft Windows computer. The point of them is to make the
setting of the classpath slightly more easy. However, the
path to the javac compiler is hardcoded in the scripts and therefor
will not work if the path on your computer is different from the
path on mine. Also, under very old jdks such as 1.1 if you set the
classpath on the command line it appears that you also have to
set the path to the 'classes.zip' file in the jdk lib directory.
In other words the batch scripts are very unlikely to work without
modification if you try to use them. Probably something like the
ant http://ant.apache.org build tool would be a better idea.
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Can the editor run as an Applet?
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No, but the SimpleEditPanel should in theory be able to run as
an applet eventually. The page edit.html contains the
applet. Generally ssh requires access to the local file system
in order to store the host key, so an unsigned applet would not
be able to use the ssh function.
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Why not just use FTP to transfer files to the server?
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Mainly because the sourceforge server does not support FTP and
also because ssh is more secure, in that the password for the
server is encrypted and the file contents as well I believe.
This means that your transfers would be secure from packet sniffing
attacks, but ssh would not help you against local keyboard loggers
which are a real possibility in internet cafes.
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What needs to be done on the text editor?
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- When a file is loading some kind of progress
messages should be displayed.
- The editor should make backups of files on the
server before it overwrites things.
- The sshtools should be reduced to their absolute
essentials in order to make the jar file smaller
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