[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Diacriticals IISH sources

[Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley]

Joscha,

Thanks very much for providing this.  This is a very neat feature that
I've seen demo'ed in person, and I look forward to trying to get this
running myself this week!

-- 
Lebbeous

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:48 +0200, Joscha Filius <eaglegrip at gmail.com>
wrote:
> In the attachment there is a .diff file containing patches with changes
> made
> to a version of release 2.0.3 running on a server at IISH. I've tried to
> select the changes and files that are relevant to a diacritical insert
> overlay. (I hope I have not forgot anything)
> 
> *What does it do?*
> It adds a menu in the marc editor. The menu consists of a pallet of
> diacritics which users can change by right clicking and selecting
another
> diacritic from a menu. Once selected the diacritic appears on the
palette
> and when they insert it by selecting it on the palette the value of the
> menu
> button is persisted.
> 
> *The files consists of:*
> a javascript file that adds a listener to ctrl-s that opens up a menu in
> marcedit fields and some code to insert selected diacriticals.
>  and a xul file containing the menu structure and also all diacriticals
> codes. Strings still need to be externalised for internationalisation
etc.
> 
> *Bugs:*
> A known bug is that is you switch marc edit styles back and forth the
> listener trigger won't work anymore. Also for a far as I know there is
at
> least another bug concerning layout which is as far as I know not the
> result
> of my doing.
> 
> *Here comes a possibly nasty part*, to ensure that the diacriticals
remain
> intact throughout the persist I've changed global_util.js to URL encode
and
> URL decode all stored values. This might cause backwards incompatibility
> with values that are already stored for other purposes without encoding.
> This needs to be checked.
> 
> kind regards,
> Joscha Filius
> 
> PS.
> There are some other changes I've implemented for IISH that you might
want
> to implement
> Like minor bug fixes and making the new marc template selection for
> cataloging sticky.