<div dir="ltr">Hi list,<div><br></div><div>ScribeUI is a tool meant to help the editing and management of mapfiles, supporting <a href="http://www.mapgears.com/en/blog/archive/2013-03-12-scribe">Scribe</a> and Standard mapfile syntax, and also <a href="https://github.com/mapserver/basemaps">basemaps</a> in the near future. I am currently developing this tool as a <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013">Google Summer of Code</a>
project. In the last few weeks, I worked on the GUI of ScribeUI, trying
to make it as good and smooth as possible, and it is now ready to test
and try out by the community!<div style><br></div><div style>Please keep in mind that this is far for complete, but we felt that
it was important to release early, as this allows to gather opinions on
what the users want and need. Any feedback is welcome, should it be new
feature ideas, general comments or bug reports.<br></div><div style>
<p>I would love to see many people play with ScribeUI, but I would
advise against doing any critical work for now, as the software might be
a bit unstable at times.</p>
<p>I listed below a few bugs and unfinished tasks that are currently known.</p><p></p><h2><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Work in Progress</font></h2>
<ul>
<li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The map list (in the Manager) is just a bunch of blank file icons for now. These will become map snapshots.</font></li>
<li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Scribe syntax errors for now are not clear. This is solved in a
new version of Scribe which I will integrate in the next release.</font></li>
<li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Basemap support is on hold until next release, it has to be tested more.</font></li>
<li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">For now only one template is available for each map type.</font></li>
<li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It is not yet possible to edit workspace or map name, description or password.</font></li>
<li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">UI error messages need more work to be clear to the user.</font></li>
</ul>
<h2><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Known Bugs</font></h2>
<ul>
<li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The layout was mostly tested in Firefox. Scrollbars and other oddities appear in Chrome.</font></li>
<li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Sometimes the backend start giving out errors 500 on open, save, or pretty much any ajax call to the map.</font></li>
<li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Long map names don’t display very well in the map list</font></li>
<li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Resizing the window completely breaks the layout.</font></li>
<li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Web browsers’ default handling of ctrl-z results in loss of layer groups.</font></li>
<li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It is only possible to close the secondary editor (map, variable,
scales, etc… ) by selecting the empty option in the select menu.</font></li>
<li><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The browser font is too small</font></li></ul><p></p><p></p><h2><font>Download and Links</font></h2>
<p>To get ScribeUI 0.1, you can either clone <a href="https://github.com/mapgears/scribeui">the repo on github</a> and checkout v0.1 or download an archive: <a href="https://github.com/mapgears/scribeui/releases/tag/v0.1">https://github.com/mapgears/scribeui/releases/tag/v0.1</a></p>
<p>ScribeUI and its installation instructions are available on github: <a href="https://github.com/mapgears/scribeui">https://github.com/mapgears/scribeui</a></p>
<p>The Scribe syntax is described here: <a href="http://www.mapgears.com/en/blog/archive/2013-03-12-scribe">http://www.mapgears.com/en/blog/archive/2013-03-12-scribe</a></p>
<p>Bug reports can be made on github: <a href="https://github.com/mapgears/scribeui/issues">https://github.com/mapgears/scribeui/issues</a></p><p style>Updates will also be published on the blog: <a href="http://mapgears.github.io/scribeui-site/">http://mapgears.github.io/scribeui-site/ </a></p>
<p>Discussion is encouraged on this mailing list. If there is a lot of interest and discussion, we'll see about creating a separate list.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot!</p><p style>Jessica</p><p></p></div></div></div>