Monday 2 August 2010

I've uploaded a tiny bit of Opensource - a very basic outliner.

The code is designed to be very simple and to create a minimalist outliner - pretty much a one trick pony. What it does it opens up with a "default" outline. There is nothing to do but add items to this outliner. When you open the outliner by double clicking, this outline is opened. When you close the outliner, it is saved. To create a new outliner file, create a new text document and change the file extension to ".meo" The file can happily be empty. The outliner will then open this file when double clicked.

All of this was inspired by the spiffing BeMail client from BeOS. BeMail used the entire file system as an inbox, and messages were just specially formatted files. Double clicking on a file opened the client and loaded the message. This simplistic approach is what I went for.

I'll add new features as I need them, but as it stands - enjoy!

Props to the couple of opensource projects I borrowed some of the code from - nothing I couldn't have got through myself, but I was having a bit of a brain fart this morning.

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