Basic JWord ideas

This page is a focal point for ideas about JWord, the upcoming basic word processor for JFA

Preliminary features list

The high-level design concept, is to have independant GUI, middle layer, and file I/O modules. We plan to allow multiple GUI's: AWT, SWING, and whatever else someone is willing to write. Similarly, we plan to support as many different file formats as people are willing to write code for! ;-) That will be managed through the DocInterface interface, above.

For a little more depth into the design, see the detailed design plan

I am also looking towards a new version, Jword v2. This will be improving on design holes in jword v2.

Or, for a small feel of the code, here's some Interface code to look at. These interfaces handle file format translation.

Preliminary DocInterface definition.
(Interface used to transfer a document between different objects)
Sample of using DocInterface to read text
Sample of using DocInterface to write text

The following documents are just "talking paper". We don't really directly implement any of the stuff here, but it's nice to have a centralized point for these.

potential object listing
[other doc deleted]

Volunteers

If you are someone who is

already somewhat experienced with java programming
writes readable code
has both the time, and inclination to WRITE CODE, NOW

Please send an email to phil@bolthole.com

In particular, a special "layout manager" is needed. that is kind of like an AWT layout manager, except it is more abstract. Email phil if you are interested, and have past experience writing efficient java code.

Additionally, we are looking for people who have a "favourite file format" that they want to implement support for. The obvious formats we still need support for:

microsoft word (any version)
word perfect?
HTML

For other projects that Phil is involved with, you should check out the top level of "bolthole.com"

In fact, Phil is kinda spread rather thin these days. So any encouraging email is appreciated. Noone else is currently known to be writing code on it, and I'm spending most of my spare time on some of my other programs, recently.