Excerpts from Hernán Morales Durand's message of 2014-12-25 17:24:18 +0100:
a desktop application that can search a given collection of text and browse the search results. Do you have a prototype screenshot for the UI? A mockup? It could be interesting to see what do you expect to see.
i don't have any mockups. the UI is very simple. in the final version i expect the following: some intro text about the application, a search-box and a selection of categories, a directory to browse the contained documents without searching. when pharo starts, this should come up automatically, and any development tools should be invisible. in part that means, the world menu should be hidden and only accessible through a keyboard shortcut, or ideally only available when pharo is started with an extra commandline argument (eg --devmode) the user can then browse the documents or search. search results should be a long scroll-list and clicking on a result should expand the document at the location where the term was found, allowing to scroll back and forth from that point. the initial version will only support plain text, but future versions may support html text to allow for cross-links in documents. a generic use-case would be something like an encyclopedia. it has lots of articles in various categories, and it makes sense to deliver it as a complete application with all assets contained in the image. there is also a mobile component which is essentially the same idea but designed for a mobile phone. this is currently being worked on using javascript/phonegap to be cross-platform. i don't know if pharo can run on a mobile phone. i'll explore that when the desktop app is functional.
I would only list the one that are maintained. Because it is not fun to work with dead projects. agreed, however iliad happened to have a very good tutorial which included serving static files, which is one of the features needed for the website. Iliad is not unmaintained and is not a dead project. Please subscribe to the Iliad mailing-list to keep updated of latest changes. We are exploring options to migrate the old web-site to a new server. I am integrating changes for working with modern (responsive) CSS frameworks.
that is good to know. it is an interesting project. i didn't see much traffic in the google group, and with the website down and no updates to the code on github for years or visible release announcements it is difficult to get a good impression. what is missing to get the website back up? just a host? greetings, martin. -- eKita - the online platform for your entire academic life -- chief engineer eKita.co pike programmer pike.lysator.liu.se caudium.net societyserver.org BLUG secretary beijinglug.org foresight developer foresightlinux.org realss.com unix sysadmin Martin Bähr working in china http://societyserver.org/mbaehr/