On Feb 14, 2004, at 15:43, Dan Carlson wrote:
In a nutshell, my idea is this: Use FileMaker Pro
Developer (probably
version 7 when it comes out in a few months) to create a read-only
offline browser for my Memory Alpha wiki content.
If you want a self-contained little app (custom interface, data
compression?, no monster file trees), there are embeddable databases out
there and certainly embeddable HTML viewers. Magnus Manske has written a
couple of experimental offline/alternate readers; one which grabbed text
out of a pre-indexed database dump and displayed it in a wxWindows-based
GUI (which has an HTML widget), another which uses an SQLite database
and a lightweight web server. You might want to check out the Waikiki
module in our CVS (
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/)
which has Magnus's lightweight Wiki->HTML converter (in C++).
wxWindows is cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Unix at least) and includes
an HTML viewer widget, so a minimal viewer probably wouldn't be that
hard to write. Magnus's old code might still be around somewhere...
WINOR? Something like that.
Actually, I gave up wxWindows for this purpose, as the integrated HTML
display is not *that* complete in supporting tags (table alignments
etc.). The waikiki package compiles to a command-line executable, which
can work in tandem with a tiny web server that needs no installation.
You can use your favourite browser this way.
It also has editing capability; I used to keep a copy with a blank DB on
an USB stick for taking notes. Quite handy, actually.
Magnus