Danish Monsters

[richmond62]

cardScript modified to take into account new glyphs:
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[richmond62]

SHOPPING LIST:

1. Replace ugly buttons:
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2. Allow end-user to make stack taller so text field can accommodate a number of lines of toext.

[richmond62]

Homework:

Did Grendel have a brother?
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Answers (Minimum 5,000 words) on my desk by Monday.

[tperry2x]

Homework
Answers (Minimum 5,000 words) on my desk by Monday.

Haha, gone are the days of homework.
ChatGPT can only manage 936 words (but frankly, any more would just be superfluous waffle)

[richmond62]

Sorry: that was NOT meant to be about the Ogre Grendel in the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf: it was about a metaphorical Grendel who is not stalking the hall of the Geats, but the Mall in Washington.

And my experience of A.I. is that computers are not very good at metaphor (mind you they are pretty awful with facts as well).

I have removed the A.I. generated "metaphorical stuff" as, while it was entertaining, it had little or nothing to do with the job in hand.

[richmond62]

This is a very important thing to look at re the job in hand:
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It is the start of Beowulf: https://www.neh.gov/news/old-english-new-influences

which, while being a precious document both in itself (i.e. the physical thing) and in terms of the text, is not terribly useful for digital work:

so, the job in hand, is to create a method for digitising text of that type (Anglo-Saxon) in a way that closely resembles the original, does NOT involve funky keyboard drivers that involve the digitiser having to mess around with abstruse modifier key combinations, and is readily accessible for markup, interposing comments, and so on.

The more long term job in hand is for the same tool to be able to do the same things for
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Gothic, Runes, and Old High German.

[richmond62]

Resized and moved title page images to take into account increased width (1200 pixels):
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Removed 'Licence' button and accompanying image as this is no longer a commercial thing.

Resized and moved menu page images to take into account increased width:
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[richmond62]

If you are feeling funky and want a peep into Grendel's future here's a picture of the Gothic alphabet:
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Any characters that are NOT present in Junicode-Bold will be incorporated into my modified Junicode font as and when they are needed.

The relevant Unicode chart is fairly comprehensive:

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10330.pdf
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Looking at things I assume Bishop Ulfilas only had 9 fingers.

[richmond62]

Expander routine:
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Note 'trap' for small screens:

Code: Select all

on mouseUp
   set the itemDelimiter to ","
   put item 4 of the screenrect into HITE
   if HITE < 800 then
      answer "Your screen will not be able to display the bottom of this program." with "OK" and "Cancel"
      if it is "OK" then
         EXPANSION
      end if
   end if
   set the vis of img "EXPAND" to false
   set the vis of img "CONTRACT" to true
   EXPANSION
end mouseUp

command EXPANSION
   set the lockScreen to true
   set the height of stack "GRENDEL" to 920
   set the top of stack "GRENDEL" to 100
   set the top of img "XHTML" TO 817
   set the top of img "XTEXT" TO 817
   set the top of img "IMHTML" TO 817
   set the top of img "IMTEXT" TO 817
   set the bottom of scrollbar "FONTSIZER" to 804
   set the bottom of img "scrolllller.png" to 805
   set the bottom of img "FS" to 802
   set the height of fld "OUTP" to 360
   set the top of fld "OUTP" to 400
   set the lockScreen to false
end EXPANSION

[richmond62]

Contractor routine:
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on mouseUp
   set the vis of img "EXPAND" to true
   set the vis of img "CONTRACT" to false
   CONTRACTION
end mouseUp

command CONTRACTION
   set the lockScreen to true
   set the height of stack "GRENDEL" to 768
   set the top of stack "GRENDEL" to 100
   set the top of img "XHTML" TO 665
   set the top of img "XTEXT" TO 665
   set the top of img "IMHTML" TO 665
   set the top of img "IMTEXT" TO 665
   set the bottom of scrollbar "FONTSIZER" to 652
   set the bottom of img "scrolllller.png" to 653
   set the bottom of img "FS" to 649
   set the height of fld "OUTP" to 200
   set the top of fld "OUTP" to 400
   set the lockScreen to false
end CONTRACTION

[richmond62]

Repositioned QUIT button to bottom-right-hand corner:
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[richmond62]

You will notice that when the stack is resized to make room for a larger text-entry field the buttons are moved as well, using my code in the EXPAND and CONTRACT images-as-buttons: this is because I have never had a satisfactory experience with the Geometry Manager.

AND what this should demonstrate is that, as long as any resizing in a STATIC suituation (i.e NOT using a system where, for instance, the stack can resize to fit all and any screen resolutions), the whole thing can be handled very simply.

[richmond62]

Added code to the 'MENU' image-as-button to ensure that IF the stack has expanded it contracts to the default size before it goes to the 'menu' card:
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on mouseUp
   set the lockScreen to true
   set the useUnicode to true
   set the unicodeText of fld "store" of card "MENU" to the unicodeText of fld "OUTP" of card "ANGLO-SAXON"
   send "mouseUp" to img "CONTRACT"
   go to card "MENU"
   set the lockScreen to false
end mouseUp

I intend to release the stack for anyone who wants to fiddle around with it sometime on Sunday.

[richmond62]

IMAGES-AS-BUTTONS are the best guarantee that your 'buttons' will look the same regardless of which platform they are deployed on:
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[richmond62]

Complete aesthetic rehash for that card:
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Shopping List:

1. Enable the LOCK button: this will alloow the user to toggele back and forth beween the virtual keyboard in the stack and their physical keyboard.

2. Rejig aesthetics for the MENU card.

3. A floating palette for text viewing.

[richmond62]

As promised:
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[richmond62]

Mucking around bunging Gothic letters into my font:
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These are far too uncial for Bishop Ulfilas and his bunch of hairies (an academic's font that I an 'pinching' glyphs from), so, having initially inserted those I will spend quite a lot of time 'chamfering' them so they look a bit more like this:
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This one is even more 'hairy' and as such thrills my gorilla (who is also hairy) a lot more than a 'Romanised' uncial something:
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[richmond62]

BEFORE:
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AFTER:
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certainly a bit better.

[richmond62]

I have also popped 4 diacritics into the Unicode private Use Area (E000 - F8FF):
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as the current Unicode standard does NOT have a place for these characters:
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I would assume that they are NOT in the Unicode standard at the moment as there is almost no evidence for them being used in surviving Gothic manuscripts and are largely 'things' for academics to demonstrate how they feel stress may have been put on vowels during speech/reading.

Here is the new version of the font:

[richmond62]

Inevitably, generating buttons for Gothic the diacritics are 'off' (which they should be) so buttons will have to be made withe a preceding space:
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