zdt and Firefox

I made a post on Chinese-forums.com advertising the new zdt release. One poster, Trusmis was reporting that he couldn’t get the zdt launching from his Debian system. Turns out the problem was that the Browser widget was trying to use Firefox as its underlying browser. Since I had only ever tried using Mozilla (with zdt) on my Gentoo box, I did a test with Firefox. Lo and behold, it didn’t work. I can’t remember what prompted me to try this, but I saw that I had the binary version of Firefox on my system. So I uninstalled that version and emerged the source version of it. And for whatever reason that worked. I still don’t know why, so I made a post on the Eclipse SWT newsgroup. So far no responses yet.

Trusmis was kind enough to create a shell script for me that sets the two environment variables needed to run the zdt on Linux. I need to figure out a way to incorporate that. Plus I need a way to gracefully disable the browser plugin if the user doesn’t have a required browser version.

Add comment August 22nd, 2005

zdt 0.3.1 release

I put the released of zdt 0.3.1 up on sourceforge on Thursday. On Friday, I decided that I wanted to remove the popups from the Dictionary view and the Category Editor because they were annoying the heck out of me. So I made a one-line fix to change the popups from appearing like a tooltip to just appearing when you double-click. Not sure if that’s the best way (non-obvious) but I think it’s ok for now. I re-built the installers and put them up again very early Saturday morning. So now the 8 people who downloaded the program in that window of time have a version with the hovering popups.

Add comment August 22nd, 2005

Welcome

This is the first entry for my new zdt blog. I plan to talk about anything related to zdt development. Feel free to leave your comments so I won’t feel lonely talking to myself.

Add comment August 21st, 2005