Release of the CUF (font & text rendering) mod tool

[Tellos Athenaios]

Update of the tool. The update itself is fairly small, but the main changes are worth updating for: a bug squashed and the tool is easier to use.

Main changes

• Update Macro, StringMapping and RawHandler to give better error messages.
• Fixed a bug in FontToolkit.fixChartableCompatibilityFor where it could end up inadvertently dropping characters from the chartable. The method was renamed into fixChartable.
• Use SortedMaps for chartables in the tool (most of the CUFSources already did this, but some used HashMaps). This ensure that the order of characters in a chartable is maintained for instance when compacting a font.

Misc changes

• Move algorithms out of FontToolkit, and together with WrappedSource to the font.impl package. Now there is an AlgorithmSource for these operations. (This change allows the code of the algorithms to be simplified and also makes the code elsewhere a bit neater.)
• Remove some redundancy in the error messages for bad file types.
• Fix cuf-impl.xml Ant script which suffered from bit rot. The update-licence task works again on Ant 1.8.1. This has otherwise no effect on the tool.

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I've identified & fixed a new problem with the tool: the ScriptRunner component would kill its host shell too soon meaning that the exit code of the program could be 0 (indicating no errors) even if errors did occur. This is sufficiently serious for me to release a new version of the tool.

This update also contains a few other changes to the tool. The main ones involve the Shell and they are: fork always expects a boolean argument to accompany the CallBack argument (it indicates whether it the CallBack must run in the same thread as the shell on which you call fork), and there is a blockUntilExit method now if you need to block a Shell until another one exits.

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The tool has not seen major action over the past few months but it did accumulate a few useful fixes so I'm calling it a release:

Bugs

• Fix malformed URI bug which could prevent XSLT stylesheets from completing normally.
• Fix a repaint bug, which prevented preview screens from being updated in specific corner cases.
• Fix behaviour of the GUI code in SystemFontUI so selected font and list synchronise properly if you select from the list after selecting a file/typing something manually.
• Fix a few cases where exceptions were thrown.

Misc

• Changes in how Macros are written to remove the date field. This is useful for versioning these files (as copies which are identical except for the date stamp are now identical). Additionally most all data is now in Unicode escape format, which means that all data is now ASCII. Both changes have no effect on how the Macros are read or used, and old files continue to work normally.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Another release with some more fixes and a few changes in behaviour.

Bugs:

• Fix scrolling artifacts by forcing more repaints.
• Center JavaHelp window properly
• Fix loading of unit tests on the commandline. (You can tell I used NetBeans to run unit tests directly... )
• Shells now use each their own PathParser, instead of relying on a globally shared one.

Features

• Rewrite of cuf.sh and cuf.wsf to be more flexible. This brings added flexibility in the commandline syntax and allows you to pass in options for the program using the -Doption.name=value syntax. The switches -nox, -gui, -tty and their long form counterparts --no-chrome, --with-chrome, --headless are now simply shorthands for a bunch of such options.

Misc

• Changes in how Macros are written to disk: now the code sorts them. This further improves ease-of-use in versioning, as equivalent macro files will end up byte for byte identical.
• Change in how message strings are loaded from resource bundles, and attending change in program startup logic: now the program attempts to load them through the
  custom classloader (as soon as possible). This is not directly useful for end users, unless you happen to be writing code that wants to let the CUF tool load its own message strings.
• Add the ability to load XSLT stylesheets from URLs directly. Only available to code extending the XSLTOption class of the CUF tool. This change enables code based on the CUF tool to load predefined “well known” XSLT stylesheets directly.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Bug fix release, after a report on the TWC:

Fixes

• Fix the System font GUI to show loaded Width and Weight settings properly.
• Fix the System font GUI to not squish the lists under certain conditions
• Disable the Back button in the first page of the FontWizard GUI.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Almost a year on the CUF tool has accumulated a fair few bug fixes. This release contains:

Fixes

• Fix bad key/value counting check when attempting to write empty values to Strings files.
• Fix possible error when writing empty (null) values using IdentityMapping macro.
• Fix bad handling of the `?' switch in launch scripts.
• Fix race in CompileJob between trying to flush pending progress messages and queuing (adding) new ones.
• Fix race between forked scripts trying to link the same library.

Feature

• Launch scripts now allow you to pass the path to the Java program to use, with the `-j' or `--java' switches. This is particularly useful on Windows where Java may not always be on the PATH and trying to invoke it as `java' would fail.

Misc

• Move to NetBeans 7.2

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Minor update:

Tweaked project.properties file so the project builds with Java 7 right away, without need for head scratching. (Culprit: -Xlint:depreciation.)
Binary only release now contains the Unit tests (and related auxiliary code) by default. This is part of the ground work needed for releasing another tool.