That sounds great, but do we actually have contact info for these  
people?  (I'm hoping it's embedded in the plugins.)  If not, and they  
haven't left it in the tickets, we're kind of out of luck.  Like you  
brought up before, it makes me wish it was easier for people to sign  
up for trac accounts...  This is the sort of thing that people would  
lave to have included.

Doug


On Oct 14, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock wrote:

> While looking through the open 0.96 tickets today, I noticed there  
> are several new plugins that have been attached to tickets and which  
> have largely been ignored. Specifically, I found:
>
> Media, a plugin for inserting various types of media, e.g.,  
> QuickTime movies, sound files, flash files, etc. Also supports  
> playlists, interestingly enough.
> - Ticket: http://trac.xinha.org/ticket/1168
> - See also: http://www.jljsolutions.co.uk/xinha.html
>
> FlashEdit, for embedding Flash files. This actually saw a decent  
> amount of activity when it was first opened three years ago...
> - Ticket: http://trac.xinha.org/ticket/669
> - See also: http://xinha.webfactional.com/ticket/685
>
> OpenUrl, for opening and editing webpages inside of Xinha.
> - Ticket: http://trac.xinha.org/ticket/996
>
> New Character Map plugin, a replacement for the current character  
> map plugin that has better support for Celtic languages, and a few  
> other updates.
> - Ticket: http://trac.xinha.org/ticket/1235
>
> These are in various states of completion (and since they're pretty  
> old, I believe they all use the old popup dialogs). For the  
> meantime, I've moved from 0.96 to 1.0. However, in the longer term,  
> it might be a good idea to 1) assess just how far along/good these  
> plugins are, and 2) contact their authors if possible and ask if  
> they're interested in completing/updating them so they can be  
> checked into the respository.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -Nicholas
>
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Hello,
the media plug-in development ground to a bit of a halt for a couple of
reasons. 
1) I've only done solo work, so when asking about how to contribute I may have
scared James by my total lack of knowledge/experience with svn etc. So I think
he could have been reticent  (probably quite rightly) in giving me a developer
password (or whatever it is you need). I did manage to produce (after some
coaching) a valid diff against the trunk of the time (dunno if he still has
this - must have been 0.96).

2) there was some question about whether my work could be allowed within Xinha
as I've admitted to using a plugin within Tiny-MCE as a concept base (the two
licenses aren't compatible). The finished product is however (obviously)
significantly different from the Tiny-MCE version - in terms of code if not
look - which can obv be changed.

On that note the playlist work may-not be admissible as the flv player is only
free if used for non-commercial products. I know there are absolutely free flv
players out there that I could implement, but not so sure about playlists.

Other than that the plug-in (as far as 0.96 was concerned) is ready to go
failing input from other developers. It relied on some changes with plugins
'ContextMenu', 'ExtendedFileManager' and 'DoubleClick' so someone would need
to review these with the newer versions.

I'm willing to address this again as and when I have time if people are
interested. It's received positive feedback from people who have downloaded
it.

With regard to FlashEdit, I was the last person to have a go at doing
something with it I think (http://trac.xinha.org/ticket/1097), it was my first
attempt at playing with a xinha plug-in. It's a bit of a mess, but I used a
couple of bits for the Media plug-in,
If Media gets up and running it won't be needed, the only advantage is that I
got it working with script detection/placement instead of an old school embed,
but I think I could get this going in Media if I could be bothered.

Hope this sheds some light,

John


On Oct 14, 2008 04:02 PM, Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock wrote:
> While looking through the open 0.96 tickets today, I noticed there are
> several new plugins that have been attached to tickets and which have
> largely been ignored. Specifically, I found:

> Media, a plugin for inserting various types of media, e.g., QuickTime
> movies, sound files, flash files, etc. Also supports playlists,
> interestingly enough.
 - Ticket: http://trac.xinha.org/ticket/1168
>  - See also: http://www.jljsolutions.co.uk/xinha.html
> 
> FlashEdit, for embedding Flash files. This actually saw a decent amount of
> activity when it was first opened three years ago...
 - Ticket:
> http://trac.xinha.org/ticket/669
 - See also:
> http://xinha.webfactional.com/ticket/685