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Building on the Java TOC Applet

Although the Java TOC Applet is used for the table of contents, it could theoretically be used for the index, as well.

I explored this direction for a short time with the voyant_indexer.pl perl program. It still outputs m_idx.script which can be plugged into the Java TOC Applet (such as on a m_idx.html file) in the same manner that the m_tree.script files are plugged into the m_toc.html file.

I stopped pursuing this because:

1 Some of my projects create large indices on the order of 20,000 entries or more, depending upon whether or not word-chunking is turned on. It may have necessitated breaking the index into nested script files by letter, much like the table of contents, which introduces further loading delays.

2 The script files cannot be searched from the browser. Therefore, it can be more difficult to locate entries in a large index even after expanding it.

3 The window for the applet (even if put into a separate browser instance) place limitations on the display region and scrolling.

4 Most important of all, the present design of multiple HTML files for the index works; the pages load fast, scroll easy, and can be searched.



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01/13/2003

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