Sounds like it’s coming along nicely.
yea, sound great so far Arthur. keep up the good work! 
Um… that sounds contradictory to me.
hehe… how so? Serialized objects are the machine’s representation of objects written to disk, entirely dependant on the implementation of the classes (at least if you want to read them back in)… xml is generally human-readable, and thus wouldn’t be affected by changes to the class structure.
The format of the xml really doesn’t matter in relation to the class structure, as long as it remains consistant from version to version.
public class Dream
{
String title = "a dream";
//this is a class
}
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<dreamjournal>
<dream>
<title>a dream</title>
<text>this is xml</text>
</dream>
</dreamjournal>And don’t worry, that’s not the real dream class.
I would have expected the classes to have a function “Export” which returns a string representation of the object. That’s why it seemed a bit odd.
Ah, I see… I think it’s better to have a separate class do the exporting, using the storage classes, and just retrieving the information from them to generate the output. That makes it a lot easier to export to different formats anyways.
Hoy you coming along with it? Percentage?
It’s slow going, as I’m only working on this in my free time. I don’t want to rush development and end up with useless software either.
I have all the dream/character/sign storage working nicely now. I’ve also set up some very extensive search capabilities. I just recently got the internal links (like to a dream sign in the dream text) working.
Next I’m going to do the export and the backup/restore features. After that, I’m going to write the interface (which will probably be the bulk of the time I spend on this)… I hope to have a beta version ready in about a month, but how soon it actually is ready depends on how much free time I end up with.
I’ll be starting a new topic once the beta version is ready, check back now and then, you won’t miss it.
-Arthur
How’s it coming?
Well, he hasn’t been at the forum since April 22, so he was probably caught up with something else.
Just another idea 
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You could have an export function that exports to bb code format with all the colours and everything.
I havn’t read anything that’s been said before this, so I’ll just tell you what I think would be good features
An inducer (from awake to lucid)
An “Export selected to LD4all forum dreamjournal” function 
choosable themes 
Smilies!!! 
Freedom from Microsoft!!!
Intuitive interface
love in every line!
Heh, yeah… I ended up getting pretty busy with school towards the end of the semester, and I’ve been trying to set up a small business. Thus, I’ve been stuck at approximately the 50% mark for quite some time.
I’m only taking one class during the spring semester, so I should have some free time to get some more work in on this. With a little luck, I can probably have a beta ready in about a month, maybe less? I seem to remember saying something similar quite a while back though 
I love it, and easily added!
Absolutely, this will run on any OS with a JVM.
As for an inducer… An interesting idea, but I’m not sure what exactly it would be. Probably a sound played after a certain period of time. Could probably be done as a simple extra, but likely not until a later version.
-Arthur
So, hows this going?
Heh, haven’t done much since my last post… It seems like I’m a lot more busy than I think I really am.
I’ll try to put some time in on it in the next few months. But I make no more promises I’ll post again when I have something that is ready to use.