Recent changes to feature-requests

Make Jar Apple-compliant

Michael Lockhart — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:28:02 -0000

When running under MacOS X in GUI mode, the application menu is named after the main class name "net.sf.dvorcode.Main". The Jar should be packaged such that MacOS gives it a proper name, as explained in Apple's Java developer guidelines. An Icon would be nice too.

Package libs in same Jar

Michael Lockhart — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:13:04 -0000

It would be nice if the included libraries were incorporated into the one dvorcode.jar file. This would make distribution and installation even more trivial, since there would not be a need to keep 3 files in a special directory relationship.

Use Factory pattern to decouple transcoder from UI

Michael Lockhart — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:08:01 -0000

The GUI/CLI are fairly tightly coupled to the Dvorcode encoder. This is fine because the program is only supposed to handle one type of encoding. However it would probably make a better design to use a trans-coder interface and a factory pattern to decouple the user-interface classes from the Dvorcode class. That way, the UI stuff could be re-used for different trans-coder projects (just slot in a replacement class that implements the trans-coder interface).

This should be a low-priority code-improvement exercise, as it will add zero features to the program as well as introduce some complexity.

Highlight the latest transcoded entry in the answerArea

Michael Lockhart — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:03:23 -0000

The newest (top) entry should be highlighted without the text scroller being the active GUI element, if this is possible in Swing? This will make it more clear which answer was newest.

Make the actionListener functions into Swing Actions

Michael Lockhart — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:01:51 -0000

To facilitate item #2101401 the GUI event handling code needs to abstract the actions from the events. Then menu items and button actions can both be pointed at the same Actions, and extra features such as action enable/disablement and keyboard bindings can be added.

Add pull-down menus to be Apple HCI compliant

Michael Lockhart — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:59:23 -0000

Need at minimum File -> Quit and also Help.

It would probably be wise to test this code out on an actual Mac, but can start by reading Apple's Java guidlines.

Get rid of code smells

Michael Lockhart — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:57:34 -0000

The Main.main() method still has some code smells, mainly due to the way that the command-line options have been parsed. It needs cleaning up possibly breaking down into subroutines to reduce the repeated code as well.

Probably research how other people have tackled this problem, surely someone's done a much more elegant job?