ADF MAGE-ML Tool Blog

Updated CVS

2005-10-30T16:42:00.000+01:00

The CVS stable module has been updated with the Release 1.0.

Release of the ADF MAGE-ML Tool version 1.0

2005-08-23T17:45:00.000+02:00

The ADF MAGE-ML Tool version 1.0 is ready. In addition of the GUI to command the tool, Users can also configure the tool through it.

Several bug fixes have been done.

Release 1.0 almost ready

2005-08-15T20:15:00.000+02:00

The ADF MAGE-ML Tool will be release soon in 1.0 version (Time to have broadband connection to updload).

Fix most of bugs about the GUI. Allow internationalisation and language change at run-time.
Includes Resources update and tool configuration.

ConfigurationFrame: change integer representation by Spinner

2005-08-12T15:23:00.000+02:00

In the configurationFrame, properties with integer type value are now displayed as Spinner.
Previously, value was displayed has TextField.

Update JLocaleChooser to display only GUI available locales

2005-08-12T15:19:00.000+02:00

The JLocaleChooser is a combobox with a list of locales. It uses to localized to GUI at run time following selected item.

In previous version, every locale with a directory in the etc/lang/i18n (contained a directory named by the locale, with the flag.gif icon)was displayed.

Now, only locales available to translate te GUI are displayed, aka English and french.

Updated Jxl api to 2.5.7

2005-08-12T14:31:00.000+02:00

The JXL api (Excel workbook reading and writing) has been updated to the last version : 2.5.7.

Version 2.5.7 (July 2005)

Handled variable arg functions which have zero parameters, such as row() and column()
Fixed WritableHyperlink so that it would handle file links (in particular file links located on a different drive letter)
Made XFRecord handle uninitialized records, and enhanced the equals() method for Font and Format to allow better copying between sheets
Detected a corrupt biff file format to throw an exception, rather than hanging in an endless loop
When writing a sheet, added to check to stop the addition of a null WorkspaceOptions object
Ignored the type object type MSOFFICDRAWING (as distinct from PICTURE) when reading/copying spreadsheets with pictures in them
Ignored, and warned, when processing charts on non biff8 workbooks
Display a warning when standard property sets aren't present in the original sheet
Display a warning about spurious block chains the small block stream
Fixed a bug when copying dates which consist of just a time - one day was subtracted from the value
Applied contributed fix for copying cell borders with colours
Added the ability to remove a comment from a cell
Applied Adam's patch to add support for horizontal/vertical centring when printing

Fix JLocale Chooser - to select GUI language

2005-08-06T19:25:00.000+02:00

The JLocaleChooser is used to select and change current locale at run time.
The JLocaleChooser did not work under MS Windows platform or if directory containing i18n data was not found.

The JLocaleChooser has been modified to handle correctly URL (change file separator to '\') and only display current, if the i18n directory is not found.

There is still a bug with de_CH flag, which do not display.
In the future, only available locale will be displayed/selecteable.

Missing internationalization resource message now displays as debug

2005-08-01T12:25:00.000+02:00

Missing internationalization resources (finishing as .label, .mnemonic, .tooltip) are not longer logged as error. These are logged as debug message, as they can be optional and can mislead the user.

Improved GUI visual presentation

2005-08-01T01:25:00.000+02:00

The button size has been fixed (in previous version, some buttons were pretty big). Improved component organization.

The project does not compile with Java 1.5

2005-07-30T22:58:00.000+02:00

The project does not compile due to generic types added in Java 1.5. But, the compile tool works with it.

The Java 1.5 will be supported in the 1.1 release.

Updated CVS

2005-07-29T01:07:00.000+02:00

The CVS server has been updated to prepare the 1.0 release.

Updated CVS

2005-07-28T00:48:00.000+02:00

The CVS server has been updated with the last development release.

Still trying to find out if cvs checkout is working.

Fixed bug with Java 1.5

2005-07-28T00:46:00.000+02:00

The source might not compile with Java 1.5. It complained about enum keyword.

Most of the enum code have been removed

Update CVS

2005-07-24T22:14:00.000+02:00

The CVS server has been updated with the last development version. It is mainly code cleaning. External api and Ms workbook have been set as binary to avoid check out error.

log4J api updated to 1.2.11

2005-07-11T17:58:00.000+02:00

The log4j api (for logging) has been updated to the version 1.2.11.
("Log4j version 1.2.11, is identical to version 1.2.9, except that the class org.apache.log4j.or.jms.MessageRenderer is now explicitly contained in the 1.2.11.jar. In previous releases of the 1.2 branch it was sometimes include and sometimes left out (bug #34491).")

Update CVS

2005-07-07T18:11:00.000+02:00

The development branch on the sourceforge cvs server has been updated.

http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=120387

Updated Jxl api to 2.5.6

2005-07-01T23:39:00.000+02:00

The jxl api has been updated to the 2.5.6 version.

New window to add configuration property

2005-06-30T18:38:00.000+02:00

A window has been added to the GUI. From the Configuration frame, the user will be able to add new property to the configuration, for exemple: update resource property....

A window to update resource will be added soon and a bug in the GUI size will be fix before 1.0 release.

SimpleGUI: Properties can be set in the GUI

2005-05-21T17:23:00.000+02:00

A Configuration Frame has been added to modify tool configuration.
Properties are ordered by module.
Some properties are unmodifiabled.

Once set, the user may only apply modification to the current instance of the tool or save configuration to file to reuse configuration next time.

Updated Jxl api to 2.5.5

2005-05-09T23:31:00.000+02:00

The jxl (Java to Excel) API has been updated to 2.5.5 version.

ADF MAGE-ML Tool available on P2P

2005-05-07T15:02:00.000+02:00

ADF MAGE-ML Tool can now be downloaded on the edonkey network.

Edonkey links:

sources:

ed2k://|file|ADF_MAGEML_Tool-1.0-RC3-source.tgz|14961363|86BBB0DCD8FC10A34051AAE01AF314F1|/

bin:
ed2k://|file|ADF_MAGEML_Tool-1.0-RC3.tgz|11787735|3666BC095AA87281EC5274D9726DBB52|/

installer:
ed2k://|file|ADF_MAGEML_Tool-1.0-RC3-installer.jar|20480630|2C71D43BFA6BB59D7CCCBFC171F52660|/

Updated Unix script

2005-05-06T12:30:00.000+02:00

For a better portability, a space has been added between "#!" and "/bin/sh".
It is mandatory for old Unix system.

Updated wiki - Added MGEDOntologyManager and ApprovedDatabaseManager

2005-05-03T00:52:00.000+02:00

MGEDOntologyManager and ApprovedDatabaseManager paged has been added to the wiki.

They describe the MGED Ontology Manager (how it works, what it provided) and the Database Manager (presents Approved Databases, how they retrieved, available information, checking,..)

Updated wiki - Added DataFileChecking

2005-05-01T01:12:00.000+02:00

The DataFileChecking page explained the checking of tabular data file (no specific to ADF).

ADFCheking page will follow,as well as MGEDOntologyManager and Approved Databases/DatabaseManager.

bug in the windows commandline script

2005-04-26T01:21:00.000+02:00

The path to the adf mage ml tool is detected as incorrect, if the path contained space. double quotes are missing.