Week 10 (8/4 - 8/8)

Goals for the Week

Clean-up the template for an alpha release.
Look at the custom task pane design and see how to get access to the current node in the document and what attributes from the schema are present and valid.
Figure out how to attach the attribute value to a node that is inserted.
Write down the approach to the project on the wiki and explain why certain decisions were made.

I worked on the macros to have the attribute values be added at the same time that the automatic marker tags the given thing.
I looked through additional sources online to see about how to access the attributes menu in Word so that it can be included in the window on the bottom of the screen.
I went over the approach to the project and added some of the reasoning for why certain decisions had been made. I also included what advantages and disadvantages were a result of those decisions and then how those were dealt with.
I went through the macros and looked at ways to deal with errors in all cases so that the program can recover if some sort of unexpected error is encountered while in use.
I looked into some techniques for dealing with errors in VBA and thought about what options would work the best for certain situations throughout the template and macros.

I worked on the error handling for the macros and looked into what kind of set-up would provide the best options for users. This will also the tools to continue working even on exceptional cases and will give the user some advice about what needs to be fixed.
I reworked the toolbar and button functionality to make it more organized code and appearance wise. I also looked more through the macros and the VBA to make sure all the code is as efficient and neat as possible.
We met with Dr. Mandell and talked about various options that we could continue to work on and what things that we can currently improve.
I also looked into different formats for some of the layouts and thought about form creations for different functionality that we might be able to provide later on down the road.
I looked at the different parts of the TEI header and tried to make it as complete as possible and fill in any areas that might have been unfinished or where I wasn't sure before what elements belonged there.

I worked on the layout design for the attributes window in Visual Studio.
I considered the different aspects of the design to make the layout of the window as best as possible and looked into what needs to be done to include the information about the attributes in the window.
I ran through the debugger for the add-in to see what things I can access using this type of set-up and how it can be as useful as the template approach.
I looked more at the form information for the boilerplate and made sure that everything was complete and arranged in a useful way.
I need to see what other options can be a part of the tool and that will make it easier to use.

I went over how to set some security features for the macros and template.
I read through some more of the book for other ways to access different parts of the document to see if there was any information about being able to read what attributes are available for certain elements.
I worked more on the Visual Studio project to see if there were better layout options for how the window is setup. I feel right now that the window is taking up a lot of space and that it becomes difficult to see the document and the markup.
I thought about how the information might be stored in a better way and allow the user to see the attributes but not have it take up so much of their view.
I went over some of the documents that Dr. Mandell sent me and looked at how they will work with the tool.

I worked on a summary of the project and got different screen captures of the toolbar.
I also worked to show how the literature would be presented in Word and what the appearance of it would look like with the XML tags and without them.
I reviewed what the project covered and how that applied to the ending result of the project.
I worked on a document to combine the screen captures and the information that the research covered.