Kevin’s Blog

Well, I finally got some coding done today. I’m about 1/2 done with the networking/backend code, it’s just that the final 1/2 is kind of tricky.

Tomorrow, I hope to get some basic command structure completed, and then I can start passing commands around and simulating user interaction.

Ahhh… so little time left.

1. Have both Google Desktop 2 and Google Talk installed.
2. Put Google Desktop into Sidebar mode by right clicking the Google Desktop Search taskbar icon and selecting sidebar, then clicking the down arrow in the title bar of the sidebar and selecting the dock option you want (right or left). You can also select Down Arrow -> autohide if you don’t like it taking up space on your screen.
3. Click the down arrow in the title bar of the Google Desktop sidebar and select the option Add/Remove panels.
4. Check Google Talk.
5. Uncheck Gmail - Google Talk takes over for incoming email notification.
   

Troubleshooting:
If at first the option “Google Talk” does not appear as a panel to be added, just close the sidebar and open it again. The option should appear. - thanks Rohan

You can also try restarting Google Talk to get the add panel option to appear. - A Commenter

Current: Jxta work done, using p2p sockets (virtual tcp/ip sockets built on top of JXTA)
Plan:
August
24 - Use simulated commands from the server to make things happen in a view in Eclipse.
25 - Make client broadcasting through server work.
26 - Make client commands work: joining meeting, quitting meeting. (display in peer group status window)
27 - Use input listeners to gather input events and broadcast them to peer group. 1-cursor collaborative text editing prototype.
28 - multi-curser editing
29 - package into Eclipse RCP (need help)

—– remaining time —–
simple example JPEG editor (brightness?)
simple example SVG editor (different color lines?)

Basic Program Layout
The Interface Selector will probably be a simple row of tabs, one for each open document.
The Main Editor View will probably be non existant, since I can bind the individual plugin’s editing views to the tabbed editor panes.