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1. February 2004

Did some improvements to the GUI today:

• Ganesha can be given a file to open at start up as a command-line argument. Great timesaver for my testing work! :)
• Ganesha remembers the last directory you opened a file from and (if it is different) the last directory where you did a "Save As". Before Ganesha defaulted to the user's home directory every time.
• started work on the resource editing windows. It's early days yet, but here's a screenshot anyway! Note how the layout of the toolbar and table columns can be changed by the user!

30. January 2004

I've done a lot of work on the GUI these past few days. Ganesha's finally starting to look a bit more like a real app now! :) Here are some screenshots to prove it:

• Shot of Ganesha just after it starts up
• Shot of Ganesha with a sample file loaded
• Shot of Ganesha with its skin switched to "Motif"

Note that not all features have been implemented yet! Those windows with "Just testing" written in them will eventually hold the contents of a resource and allow the user to edit it.

26. January 2004

Apologies once again for the very infrequent updates to this page! Eventually I'll make some nice dynamic news page thingy - right now I'm updating this by hand! :/

Ganesha is coming along quite nicely now! The coding I did over xmas has been tidied up and nicely documented with javadoc. I'll probably make the documentation available here soon! Most of the recent work has been on Ganesha's internals (the functionality sub-package) - I now (almost) have a clean and simple interface to working with RDF files which the GUI can then interact with!

Ok, gotta go now! Must code.....

16. December 2003

Don't let the big gaps between the last few news items fool you - I've done a lot of work on Ganesha in the mean time... I just haven't bothered to update the site. Sorry!

The coding is well under way now. The 'skeleton' of the GUI is up and running now - by that I mean stuff appears on the screen and you can click menus and buttons but they don't do much behind the scenes yet. Have a look at this screenshot from about a week ago for your first glimpse of Ganesha!

5. December 2003

The project progress report document has been completed and handed in. Due to departmental rules I can't post it on the site until it has been marked. That should hopefully be sometime in January.