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==Plan==
:Create the general framework

:Implement User Stories:
::{|border="1" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0"
|-style="background-color:#ff7d7d"
|align="right"|1
|User wants to use all the normal html functions (text, images, headers, tables etc).
|MUST
|}

:''Estimated Duration: 20 hours''

==Progress==
===Week 1===
:'''Searched Internet for an open source HTML editor in .NET or similar'''
::*Not many results
::*Mostly web based editors
::*Source forge did not find anything useful
::*Didn't find anything we could build off

:'''Decided to try start a new application using Visual Studio 2005'''
::*Application to be called "Orangeberry" during construction
::*Need to learn Visual C++ and Visual Studio interface design
::*Created basic menu items and icon
::*Played around with dialog boxes

:'''Found we had created wrong type of project'''
::*Created a 'Win32 Project'
::*But a 'Windows Form Application' provides more native windows tools
::*Decided to remake project of this type
::*Not too much work because other project was barely started

:''''Experimenting' with Windows Forms'''
::*Easy enough to create the menus etc.
::*Followed a tutorial to make an application with an exit button (amazing....)
::*After a few hours we had an application with an 'Open File' dialog that did nothing.
:::- Used code from the tutorial to do this, but it kept causing errors, VS would not tell us the specific problem and we could not resolve.
::*A lot of time wasted on basic things that should not have taken a long time to implement (if we were using Java).
:::- We would still rather use Visual C++ as it is easier to deploy/install than a Java application.
:::- Might need to do some more Visual C++ tutorials before we begin implementation as it is taking a lot longer than expected, we will probably need to increase iteration 1 time frame.

===Week 2===
:'''Searched for more open source HTML editors'''
::*After experimenting with VS we decided it would be too time consuming to implement an application from scratch
:::- basic functions like open, save, copy, paste etc
:::- could leave these functions out for the prototype but they seem too important to ignore ('''we have no stories for user to open/save''').
::*[http://www.nvu.com/index.php Nvu] (pronounced N-view) is an excellent editor, however source code is very complicated
:::- would take ages to understand it
:::- Nvu seems based around Mozilla somehow, should look further into the Mozilla license to see if that gives some insight into code/folder structure
::::- Nvu is based on Mozilla Composer (Mozilla Composer has been aborted) [http://www.nvu.com/about.php Reference]
:::- Nvu latest version was released in 2004(5?), no bug fixes etc since then by the original creators.
:::- Nvu '''does not''' support php files
::*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/kompozer/ KompoZer] is an ''unoffical'' bug fix release of Nvu and may provide a better starting point and is meant to support php.
::*[http://www.w3.org/Amaya/Overview.html Amaya] is an average editor, the source is slightly easier to understand than Nvu
:::- Lacks basic features like resizing (or they were harder to find than Nvu).
:::- Probably not the best starting point, would need to add a lot of the basic functions Nvu has.
::*Saw a thread where a user suggested OpenOffice as an html editor. Seems kind of bloated for what we need and source is probably as confusing as Nvu.

::*Wikipedia has a list of WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) html editors.
:::- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_WYSIWYG_HTML_editors Comparison of WYSIWYG HTML editors]
:::- We checked the other open source editors and found they were not that useful.
:::- Nvu is definitely the best choice to start working from but will take awhile to fully understand the source and where we can begin editing.

::*Also another list of free html editors:
:::[http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/htmleditors.shtml html Editors]
:::- Not all of them are open source.

===Week 3===
:'''After discussion with Gill decided to make prototype using Java'''
::- Easier for us to work with
::- Previous experience will help us code faster
::- '''Restarting prototype in Java'''

:'''Searched for Java WYSIWYG HTML Editors'''
::*[http://editor.kafenio.org/ Kafenio]
::*[http://www.hexidec.com/ekit.php Ekit]
::*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/unufree/ Unufree]
::*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jhtml/ Jhtml]

:'''Choose to use Kafenio for base'''
::*Kafenio has the most functionality and the file structure is easy to understand.
::*Imported into Eclipse, but it require a few modifications before we can begin implementing mashup functions
:::- Mashup functions are not part of this iteration, will give us time to understand code base and make modifications

==Results==
:Obtained an open source application for our general framework

:User Stories Completed:
::{|border="1" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0"
|-style="background-color:#88ED76"
|align="right"|1
|User wants to use all the normal html functions (text, images, headers, tables etc).
|MUST
|Completed
|}

:''Actual Duration: 29 hours''

==Testing==

:'''Testing performed manually'''
::- We tested the open source base manually
::- All the functions were working correctly as expected
::- Edited icon images for "Bold" and "Italics" buttons as program did not use standard buttons

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