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I'd like to announce my project of new skin for report generator.
It is based on current one, but has lot of modifications and changes.
Primary goals:
-Remove all frames
-Make it more css dependent, so it will be more customizable for any user
-Speed up opening pages, by loading content on left sidebar by using AJAX
You can check now, how it looks on http://familytrees.genopro.com/Quayle/dev
Config.xml is slightly modified, but not Dictionary.xml, so all the translations will be valid for it.
Any comments are welcome. 
Edit:
Changed dev-site address.
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Edited: Thursday, October 7, 2010 by
Quayle
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I see a potential use of an abstraction layer, not in platform variations, e.g. Windows vs. Linux, but in genealogy database variations. This approach could potentially permit 'hijacking' the GenoPro Report Generator to generate similar reports from databases other than GenoPro. The problem will be in defining the abstraction layer data model and interfaces. As Gedcom is the lowest common denominator it would be a good starting point, with perhaps 'extensions' for the various differences between packages, e.g. genograms and relationships, social entities in GenoPro.
A few comments on how GenoPro Report Generator works: Files in the skin folder that are not under the Code folder or referenced in a Template in Config.xml or as an INCLUDEFILE are copied to the output folder. So for jquery, css etc just place in an appropriate folder in the skin. I have taken Quayle's skin and tweaked it a bit with these points in mind and using INCLUDEFILE (see attachment), although I think a better approach maybe to provide the abstraction library (lib.js) as a separate 'plugin' to the report rather than trying to generate it inline. I have added a few lines to index.html to produce some output, a page with a simple sorted list of names. edanite Also, you've used new ActiveXObject in generate.htm, that almost certainly won't work outside of JScript (Microsoft's JS engine).
It is being used in the Windows abstraction
'lego audio video erro ergo disco' or "I read, I listen, I watch, I make mistakes, therefore I learn"
Mindless Skin JS.zip
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Ron (9/18/2010)
I see a potential use of an abstraction layer, not in platform variations, e.g. Windows vs. Linux, but in genealogy database variations. This approach could potentially permit 'hijacking' the GenoPro Report Generator to generate similar reports from databases other than GenoPro. The problem will be in defining the abstraction layer data model and interfaces. As Gedcom is the lowest common denominator it would be a good starting point, with perhaps 'extensions' for the various differences between packages, e.g. genograms and relationships, social entities in GenoPro.
Well, my opinion is, that this data model layer should be maintained by the GEDCOM standard committee - define the core dataset and add the other genogram package related extensions by collaborating with the developers of the other packages . Later some 3rd party datasets can be incorporated into teh next core standard dataset. However, currently I do not see, whether the GEDCOM team is going into this direction...
Feri
Edited: Sunday, September 19, 2010 by
fbukolyi
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