currently I am working on a plugin for Spark (2.0.7+) together with Plazes (a location based service, that is able to match your current network connection to a specific location). Unfortunatly I only have limited resources in terms of test an qa equipment.
If you do not have a plazes.com account feel free to contact me - and I will forward you an invitation.
Currently the plugin is in a POC stage. So it should just demonstrate that it could work - The coding is horrible - and it is actualy just a reuse of JWSPlazer. This leads to the limitation. It is expected to work on either Windows or Linux.
With the plugin you are able to:
Make your presence available (Showing others where you are - AKA: WHEREAMI)
Place a TODO - like: “as soon as I am at home feed cat” - that gets displayed as soon as you connect at home.
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Dear Jive: This is the only resource I see to get in touch with SparkDevs - So please do not remove this thread.
yes, the source code is available - due to no SVN/CVS share at the moment I could only forward it by mail (it’'s small enough). But I will try to put it on either sourceforge or similar.
And: Yes - the code looks horrible at the moment - because I just forced to get it to work. (Now the 80% of further development is required to make it nice).
If you send me a private message with your E-Mail I forward you the code.
I to would be very interested in this plugin and to be updated with it’'s development. When you are finished, I would love to take a look and maybe make it publicly available.
This is very very cool. I went ahead and created a plazas account and downloaded the plugin. I can definitley see where you are heading with this. I have some initial feedback.
a) Creating the 3 tabs within the Workspace pane takes up too much horizontal room, I would recommend creating one “Plazas” tab and then adding Collapsible Panes within that UI.
b) What is the Bean Scriptor for?
c) When I try and Map my location, it brings up a browser with localhost. Obviously, this doesn’'t do anything.
d) For the list of friends, I would use a JList along with a sweet JPanelRenderer. This would allow for better selection management.