Recent changes to patches

Patches to enable embedding

Bertalan Fodor — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 13:07:38 -0000

I still work on embedding Multivalent into my jEdit plugin.
However, jEdit has its own classloader and resource
handler, so the attached patches are needed for
Multivalent.

icons, splash screen image/logo, etc.

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:00:31 -0000

Hi,

Here are the files that I use to give multivalent a
little more pizazz and reality in the Windows environment:

URLs.toURI() patch for embedded spaces and absolute form

hemisfear — Sun, 28 Dec 2003 14:23:30 -0000

URLs.toURI() is getting passed URLs with embedded
encoded spaces and is producing URIs with "%2520" since
it is re-encoding the percent sign.

URLs.toURI() is producing URIs without "/" as the first
character thus URL.checkPath() is rejecting it because
it things the URL is in relative form.

Attached you'll find an updated URLs.java with the
appropriate changes to workaround these two issues.

Tested in WebStart as an embedded component (where the
the problem initially exposed itself...multivalent jar
was in "Documents and Settings" directory and
Splash.html coulnd't be loaded) and standalone too.

See how I launch multivalent in "embeded" mode

Tor Nichols — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 19:46:21 -0000

I created a -e switch that can be sent to multivalent
via the first part of an argument:

multivalent.jar -e systemresource:/sys/Splash.html
will load the splash.html file from the archive and
the -e tells multivalent to enable standalone_ mode
*after* the browser is initialized so that when a
quit/close/or exit is performed it doesn't shutdown the
program that called it.

This way multivalent can be launched using a jarrunner
from inside another program. For all intents
Multivalent loads looking and feeling like it would
normally.

The if statement I used could be updated to a for loop
that looks through all tokens of all arguments for a
-e... and the same process could check for the -v
argument at the same time and act accordingly. (this
would be a more robust way to allow commandline
parameters) Do you have any interest in it if I make
the nested for loops required to check each string for
the -v and -e arguments?

The attached code works like a champ for me. When I
run multivalent by itself and exit the program java
exits like normal. If I run it from inside another
program and pass it the -e it loads wonderfully, and
exits without closing my program.

All places that I made changes or additions are
commented with tor2 as the beginning of the comment.

Updated Graphics (Logo, Splash.html, icon file)

Tor Nichols — Fri, 21 Nov 2003 21:48:45 -0000

Hi Tom and folks.

In the jar archive the Splash.html file was causing
multivalent to load the homepage after the page
specified in a commandline argument because of the
meta-refresh tag.

I updated the splash.html and put a little work into
making it an html based logo for you. It's is somewhat
basic, but I think it looks nice.

Would you consider using this splash.html file instead
please? (or some variation)