[vtp-dev] RE: I have returned from vacation

[Brent D Metz <bdmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds good. I am at home today but
we can go over what's changed. You've summarized it pretty well, but here
are a few comments on the changes:

- The externalization of strings I did
was a quick job and needs to be eventually cleaned up as the project grows;
this goes for the entire VTP codebase. "Error " + name + "
detected" type code should really be MessageFormat.format("Error
{0} detected").

- I changed the 'call completed' dialog
to be a log event so you could automatically drive the browser if need
be. It's not perfect; other cases pop dialogs up. But I wanted something
that would work well for simple cases and would be minimally invasive to
the codebase.

- Trim the log to remove events related
to redirecting from the scratchpad. You might remember I tried this out.
I kept using it locally and it was working very well so I put it in. Along
with this I added some simple eventing. Like the dialog issue my hope is
that these will enable examples to be built that take advantage of the
infrastructure.

- There ended up being two getting started
guides; the one you put together in .tellme.doc and the one I put together
for the web site. I think they both need to be merged together eventually,
but there was no time to sort that out and so I cleaned up the opening
paragraphs of mine and put it under Getting Started in the online help.
If I recall yours was more in depth in the prerequisites and mine was more
in depth inside Eclipse. Yours is still there but I commented out the table
of contents.

- One thing you missed that I was proud
to get in: moving the text in the launch configuration dialog to links
so you can click on them. It had been in the back of my mind for months.
We'll have to see how this works on other platforms.

--
Brent D. Metz
Enterprise Voice Tools
bdmetz@xxxxxxxxxx
"Simple things should be simple, and complex things should be possible."
- Alan Kay

"Michael Greenawalt" <mgreenawalt@xxxxxxxxxx>

02/27/2006 08:02 PM

To	Brent D Metz/Boca Raton/IBM@IBMUS
cc
Subject	RE: I have returned from vacation

Brent –
 
I have taken a look at the
comparisons of the current source of the tellme plugin with what I have.
Looks like you have been busy! I see a lot of extractions of strings, and
I notice you changed the dialog at call completion as well as trimming
down the log content. I would like you to go over what you changed, as
some may conflict with the “to do” list I left behind to resume work
on. 
 
Also, I cannot find the documentation
material that I put together at the very last. What is up with that? The
release candidate is missing the info on setting up Skype, etc.