[screenweaver] Help docs generator - current status.

[Campbell Anderson]

Wow, looks good,

My only concern is what will happen to people who are working away from
the net? Could there be base content which is static/local to the user
and then the liveDocs?

just my thoughts

Cam.

> Here's a screen capture demo of what I'm currently working on
regarding the SWOS documentation.
> 
> Thomas provided me with the MySQL data that they used for previous
versions and I started creating a UI for it (in flash).
> http://www.muzakdeezign.com/swos/docs_demo/demo01.html
> 
> I wrote some remoting services (currently in Coldfusion) and hooked
that up with Flash.
> The api can be viewed here (is a snapshot of my network server, so not
live)
> http://www.muzakdeezign.com/swos/docs_demo/docs_select_api.html
> 
> For those not familiar with the database structure it probably won't
say much though :-)
> 
> Anyway, the most important remote method for now is 'getTreeData'
which returns all the data from the database in an xml format that 
> can be used in a Flash Tree component. Just call the method and throw
the result in a Tree, as simple as that.
> 
> At this point, no editing possibilities have been implemented, but
that's the goal.. eventually.
> 
> And here are some thoughts on what we could do with this:
> 
> - online viewing of help documentation (no need to generate/upload
seperate .html files to a server as it hooks straight into the 
> database)
> - online editing of documentation data (restricted with username/password)
> 
> - generate help for Flash IDE (.xml, .html, etc..). This will most
likely not be the online app, but a desktop version, which 
> connects to the online services (remoting) and stores the generated
files locally.
> 
> 
> As mentioned above, the remoting services are currently written in
Coldfusion, but - if needed - can be rewritten in PHP later in 
> case we need to relocate the application to another server.
> I don't mind hosting this on my server (which has Coldfusion support)
though.
> 
> Let me know what you think ;-)
> 
> regards,
> Muzak
> 
> 
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