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Improved RIFE in-depth session movie

Following the RIFE 1.0 release, many people perused the website and I received some useful comments about the tutorial movies.

I thus made a new version of the in-depth session that creates a simple blog.

This are the improvements:

  • added callouts with additional textual information,
  • spliced the movie up into relevant parts that are auto-loaded,
  • increased the frame rate to make the animation smoother,
  • provided instructions for local viewing, and
  • created a quicktime and an avi version.

It can be seen in our theater section.

Have fun with the improvements!
posted by Geert Bevin in RIFE on Sep 2, 2005 7:17 AM : 7 comments [permalink]
 

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Re: Improved RIFE in-depth session movie
Hi Geert,

I just downloaded X-develop and your RIFE-Plugin. At least in the video you seem to have much more autocompletable templates (for Java code (e.g. cmf...), for XML (e.g. datasource...), maybe even more for HTML) which are not part of the currently released X-develop Plugin. At least I can't find them. Would you mind giving them to me or releasing them? They look very cute. In return I will (try to) port it to Eclipse's WTP project.

Michael
posted by Michael Mayr on Sep 3, 2005 9:00 PM
Re: Improved RIFE in-depth session movie
Hi Michael,

sadly this is a limitation of X-develop's plugin system. It's currently not possible for a certain file type plugin to provide code templates for other file types. I entered an issue for enhancing that in X-develop's issuetracker: http://jira.omnicore.com/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?key=XD-696

However, you can use them by using my X-develop's configuration file. I uploaded it here: http://rifers.org/downloads/rife/configuration-1.1.xml

You simple have to copy this to your user's X-develop configuration directory ($HOME/.xdevelop on linux and osx).

Hope this helps.
posted by Geert Bevin on Sep 3, 2005 10:30 PM
Re: Improved RIFE in-depth session movie
Thanks. Obviously the trial version of X-develop seems to not pick up such a "foreign" configuration file. Your extensions never show up under preferences (but they are in the file) and when I close X-develop your version is overwritten with the old standard one (which I deleted before). Deleting mostly everything in the xdevelop folder doesn't help either, still the same. I don't know where that comes from. But since I now have your contents and because XML is human readable I can start porting it. Maybe another user can tell if this simple configuration file exchange works for him.
posted by Michael Mayr on Sep 4, 2005 12:14 AM
Re: Improved RIFE in-depth session movie
You should replace the file when X-develop is not running. The configuration file is read at startup.
posted by Geert Bevin on Sep 4, 2005 12:17 AM
Re: Improved RIFE in-depth session movie
That's exactly what I did. However I found in the log file that there occurs an exception at startup. I think the above reported behavior is what X-develop does when it encounters an error on config file parsing. It then generates a standard config file and overwrites the existing "not parseable" one. After reading the exception I thought it might be good to add content for the recentlyOpenedFiles.

So I changed
<recentlyOpenedFiles>
</recentlyOpenedFiles>
into
<recentlyOpenedFiles>
<policy>0</policy>
<limit>15</limit>
<string>HelloWorld.java</string>
</recentlyOpenedFiles>

Now it works :-)

Here's the exception I got before:

04.09.2005 00:58:19 Starting X-develop Professional 1.1 build 163

com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.ConversionException: Index: 0, Size: 0
---- Debugging information ----
required-type : JS
cause-message : Index: 0, Size: 0
class : com.omnicore.xdevelop.configuration.ApplicationConfiguration$ConfigurationDataRoot
message : Index: 0, Size: 0
path : /configuration/recentPaths/recentlyOpenedFiles
cause-exception : java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException
-------------------------------
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convertAnother(Unknown Source) ....(shortened)

Cheers
Michael
posted by Michael Mayr on Sep 4, 2005 1:18 AM
Re: Improved RIFE in-depth session movie
Ok, sorry, my fault, I removed the list of recently opened files and didn't test, sorry :(
posted by Geert Bevin on Sep 4, 2005 1:21 AM
Re: Improved RIFE in-depth session movie
Never mind. I like doing brain exercises in the evening :-)
posted by Michael Mayr on Sep 4, 2005 1:30 AM

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