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Description
JDisplay displays Java, HTML, bat, SQL, ini, csv, properties... files a variety of colours, fonts, sizes and weights to help make them more presentable and readable. Why would you use it? For the same sorts of reasons you use colours and fonts in an IDE like IntelliJ or Eclipse. They make the code much easier to understand. There is no server-side code used. Java utilities parse the code snippets into compact binary tokens, assigning colours, fonts, sizes and weights to each token. Then the tokens can be rendered three ways: 1. using a Java Applet. This is usually best for very large listings. 2. as piece of CSS style-decorated HTML code you include in your html as an iframe. This is usually best for intermediate listings. 3. inline in your HTML. This is usually best for short listings. The problem, in the process of editing the html it is fairly easy to damage the generated listings. They must be regenerated before every upload. I have been using the JDisplay suite of utilities for many years. I did not write it for public use. I offer it on an as-is basis. The code itself in well documented, but there is no step-by-step documentation on getting it to work. I presume the user is familiar with bat and ant files and Java building. I have not included the enormous HTML static macros package which I use for deciding the sizes and display rendering method for each snippet, though I did include the code to make those decisions hooked into your own framework. The parsers are rough and ready. They need to work on code snippets and erroneous code, not perfect code the way a standard parser does. If improve the parsers, or add new ones, please pass them along for the public distribution. JDisplay is enormously more complicated than it appears on the surface. You can spelunk and discover all manner of interesting code you can cannibalise.
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