JGuiGen Demo

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• Screencast ... just a placeholder for now

• notes made during creation of demo script
• notes made during moves of files on 20060410
• notes made attempting to compile with java 1.5 on 20060411 (not as bad as i expected)

1. Assumed to have installed: sdk, eclipse 3.1.2
2. svn checkout https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/jguigen/JGuiGen/trunk/ jguigen
3. cd jguigen
4. unzip JGuiGenMisc.zip
5. ./build.sh
6. classpath=".:"`echo lib/*.jar | tr " " ":"`
7. java -cp $classpath JGuiGen
   1. details
8. run the User -> UserLogData and watch an empty screen popup
9. Datadictionary -> Generate Application
10. Model - creates a class containing an abstract table model for one table.
11. Order - sort columns into the order you want them to appear in your GUI.
12. Create Java - actually generate the GUI class
13. choose .java
15. JGuiGenMisc - hsql text files, containing JGuiGenDB: Data_Dict, JGuiGen_i18n, UserLogData, CodesBank
16. tar xf JGuiGen.tar; cd JGuiGen; unzip JGuiGenMisc.zip
17. classpath=".:"`echo *.jar | tr " " ":"`
18. javac -classpath $classpath com/*/standard/*.java com/*/standard/XML/*.java com/*/src/*.java JGuiGen.java
19. vi JGuiGenIni.xml, add table name "Lead", add class name "Lead", add table model name "LeadTm"
20. launch db admin. sh ./runUtil.sh DatabaseManager ... type: "... Standalone", driver: JGuiGenDb ... Ok
21. cut and paste new table "Lead"
22. cut and paste new columns: id, date, address
23. run JGuiGen from the command line java -cp $classpath JGuiGen
24. Basic flow ... run JGuiGen and start in the Data Dictionary Menu
    1. Mark Tables - place a check amrk on the "Process Table" field for your new Lead Table
    2. Check Data Dictionary, Leave Flags, Run Now
    3. Edit Data Dict ...Select the Lead table, Do a bunch of stuff for each column
    4. Generate Application (Model, Order, Create Java)
    5. Exit from the Internationalization causes a write
    6. Generate HTML (optional)
25. Compile and run the new gui
    1. show out-of-the-box features of the gui
    2. View, Add, Edit, Delete ... right click duplicate
    3. Search for some rows
    4. Oh ... what's this? ... Reports!
    5. try closing a window after a change
    6. try changing the row to edit after a change
26. wash, rinse, repeat ?, ?, ?, and ? showing features
    1. Quickly adding a column, such as: ssn, phone, address
    2. Internationalization
    3. Hot keys
    4. Change validation error message and Test
    5. blast the coffee cup
    6. run test scripts against the gui
    7. show test script output
27. launch eclipse

• shameless plug - Hale Pringle's web site

Notea about getting JGuiGen installed on SourceForge. I ran into two "issues" while moving a new project to SourceForge as a Subversion version control project. 1. SourceForce wants a Subversion dump file to start with which menat I needed to place JGuiGen into subversion locally. I created a repository using the Tortisesvn client. I imported the files into the repository and checked them out again. Then it was time to create the dump. TortiseSvn doesn't create dump files so I needed to use the command line. No problem. The instructions said use the svnadmin tool to create the dump file. The issue came with figuring out what folder to be in when I ran svnadmin. I finally found out that being in the main repository folder worked. That seems like a strange place to work from but it worked.

2. The instructions on uploading a new project said to use scp and copy the file to scp FILENAME.ZIP USERNAME@shell.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/P/PR/PROJECTNAME/FILENAME.ZIP

I tried this and it didn't work scp jguigen.zip Halepringle@shell.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/P/PR/jguigen.zip.

What they don't mention in these instructions is that the "P/PR" are the first letter and first two letters of our project name. This worked scp jguigen.zip Halepringle@shell.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/J/JG/jguigen.zip.

3. To update the SourceForge web site I used Winscp and logged into shell.sourceforge.net using my sourceforge username and password. That placed me in /home/users/h/ha/halepringle. I navigated to /home/groups/j/jg/jguigen/htdocs and uploaded the web pages. Hale 4/10/2006