New CPAINT Release?

[Paul Sullivan]

In an attempt to breathe some fresh air into CPAINT and hopefully revive it, I am working up a new feature list for a release in the next few months.  In addition, I am seeking help!

 

* Fix NS_NOT_AVAILABLE_ERROR that's occuring in some Gecko based browsers (apparently, you have to wait a second after the page loads for the XMLHTTP object to become available.  I haven't been able to reproduce it myself, but have a few reports of it happening).

* Finish out WSDL & SOAP support in the backend

* Add some sort of security "key" for accessing the backend (the basic idea here is that the client must send the server a key in order to gain access to the backend functionality - I'm sure there's more than one way to do this, so we need to figure out the best way)

* Port the backend and proxy to Classic ASP

* Create a plugin architecture for custom data converters/processors (had a concept last year, but never finished it)

* Create a language independent settings/INI file (to configure the backend, proxy, etc...)

* Anything else on the current TODO list not listed here (http://cpaint.net/doc/todo.html)

 

 

The following ideas could be done, depending on how many people we can get to help out:

 

* Add/distribute a JavaScript widget library with CPAINT (have the code to a custom developed one, but needs lots of cleanup)

* Port backend and proxy to other languages (PERL, ASP.Net, Ruby, etc)

* New examples and more in-depth documentation, possibly a book

 

 

If you are interested in helping out or have some ideas, please let me know.  I'm going to attempt to make things a bit more formal and work up a design document once the features have been decided upon.

 

 

Thanks,

Paul

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash
http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV
_______________________________________________
Cpaint-developers mailing list
Cpaint-developers@...
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cpaint-developers