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Petr Krontorad replied on December 19, 2008 21:11 to the question "I want to help!!!" in Amy Editor:

Hi,
there's no such thing at the moment, nor is any development running. I'm planning to restart it again during christmas, the new domain http://www.amyeditor.com is up and running (that was the easy task) ;).

Concerning your question - what do you mean by Python support? There's a Python bundle so the language is supported, the backend code is however not ported, it runs on top of Rails or PHP5. There will be C# and Python backend version (for your server) port, but I can't give any estimate.

Anyways, thanks for your concern, and I'm more than open to any help from anyone, gracias:)

Saludos,
petr

Petr Krontorad replied on November 04, 2008 22:58 to the question "What is the status of Amy Editor? Still supported/developed?" in Amy Editor:

none of these at the moment due the fact there's no spare time :(.

A comment on the question "Amy Pear Requirements" in Amy Editor:

yes, prototype library cannot be used along with amy. it uses my own Fry JavaScript Framework, and there are naming collisions. It's the same with combining mootools and prototype etc.

There's no easy way of solving it. Both prototype and Fry were uknown of each other at the very similar time of their creation and the $ for core element function is simply too popular :). – Petr Krontorad, on August 20, 2008 23:33

Petr Krontorad replied on August 20, 2008 23:28 to the question "Problems getting DB/collaboration working" in Amy Editor:

What version of PostgreSQL are you using? It should work with anything after the least 8.0.5 (haven't actually tested with the absolute latest, but there shouldn't be any difference). One thing that comes to my mind - you should have plpgsql stored procedures language installed in your database - check postgres documentation, it's this simple command (`createlang plpgsql amyEditorDevelopment `). Once the language is installed, try running the setup again.

However it should be noted, that the version available for download is pretty old, the version of Amy currently running on aprilchild.com server is much more enhanced. I just didn't have time to put it online for grab. The whole project is a little bit stalled, but I'll revive it in couple of days (and announce it on the blog).

Petr Krontorad replied on August 12, 2008 00:08 to the idea "Upcoming features for Amy Editor - Beta" in Amy Editor:

hi guys,
thanks for you support!
i've set up a standard PayPal Donate button (to be found in "About Amy") window where people can make donations. However, I'm planning to announce a little bit more soon, so maybe it would be best to wait a little. Just to see if any money sent are really money worthy to spent :).

thank you,
petr

Petr Krontorad replied on March 10, 2008 02:12 to the question "Amy Pear Requirements" in Amy Editor:

There are no PEAR packages used. The error messages only display in what paths they're looking for given file (library.php). Check if it's where it says it should be. If so, I haven't really check installation on Windows PHP distro, just correct it how it's usually done. I don't remember PHP development on Windows machine, it's too long since I've done it.

Petr Krontorad shared an idea in Amy Editor on March 02, 2008 17:39:

Upcoming features for Amy Editor - Beta

Updated keyboard support - due rewritten keyboard handling, Amy now works in any browser since 2001 - that is IE6+, FF, Safari and Opera (+bunch of related on these). I had to postpone work on other features due regular work necessities (like paying rent and such ;), beta release is unfortunately affected by it and not to be even scheduled now. Unless I can find some other source of financing, there's no way Amy will be further developed.

Petr Krontorad replied on March 02, 2008 17:17 to the question "Coldfusion MX8" in Amy Editor:

Hi,
ad 1) no, it would have to be created. It usually involves couple of regular expression chunk rules to define and it's not terribly complicated.
ad 2) that depend on kind of project you create. It should be fairly easy to create one connected to any source control protocol you wish. Only basic project types are supported right now, but this task shouldn't be difficult to accomplish.
ad 3) what do you exactly mean by that? Amy is extensible without touching the source code of the editor itself without no practical limit. Some more info could be found via manual starting at http://www.april-child.com/amy/websit...

Unfortunately developer's manual is not finished yet :(.

Petr Krontorad replied on March 02, 2008 17:09 to the problem "Ruby collapse/expand fails with for loops" in Amy Editor:

Well, I don't know, there might be something wrong with the way bundle definition is loaded via ajax calls, maybe the regular expression are wrong themselves. To be brutally honest, I cannot look into it any more at the moment, but will update the definition asap since ruby is a must for the "big thing" project Amy is only a small fraction of..

Petr Krontorad replied on January 30, 2008 01:26 to the idea "Concerning alpha releases..." in Amy Editor:

:) also, there's no support for mime types on your webhost, simply return 'text/plain'; on line 29 of lib/amy/amy_util.php script. and don't forget to remove echo "hello" from your files.

Petr Krontorad replied on January 30, 2008 00:51 to the idea "Concerning alpha releases..." in Amy Editor:

actually no, php cannot catch fatal errors, it ends before amy_frame.php is finished, otherwise it would print the second ; - the error must be somewhere in the included files. you should see it if you'd put all @ before commands out.

Petr Krontorad replied on January 30, 2008 00:35 to the idea "Concerning alpha releases..." in Amy Editor:

it could also be permission problems, apache should have access for writing to cache directory. my fault i haven't provided much installation info, i just grabbed it from svn repos and uploaded it.

Petr Krontorad replied on January 30, 2008 00:32 to the idea "Concerning alpha releases..." in Amy Editor:

try remove @ from includes, focus on amy.php and amy_frame.php in root, then lib/amy.php. it's weird.

Petr Krontorad replied on January 30, 2008 00:19 to the idea "Concerning alpha releases..." in Amy Editor:

weird, try putting echo "!" at the end of pg.php file and see if it compiles by visiting the page http://www.thakertech.com/amy_editor/... .

however, it looks like you have 5.0.2 version of php, not quite sure if it'll work with this, they made a bunch of changes in php object model (or lack of it;) since then.

it definitely looks like some issue with php. you can also try to remove leading @ when include, include_once etc is written. put include "dsd" instead of @include. this should yield more errors.

Petr Krontorad replied on January 29, 2008 23:49 to the idea "Concerning alpha releases..." in Amy Editor:

ok, it seems like you have no support for postgresql compiled on your webhost. go to the lib/amy/support/pg.php file (!! it's not in the support directory at /home/jumpo/public_html/amy_editor/support, it's under lib subdirectory, you might have got confused here).
the code i've pasted got scrambled by this forum, sorry for that, it should however be fine in updated tarball.

now, in the pg.php file on line 78, replace the line with return $str, for any other error like that, simply look at the code and put something like return; in each affected method. Since you won't be using database anyway, it's only important the code will interpret.

let me know, if anything else occures.

Petr Krontorad replied on January 29, 2008 22:46 to the idea "Concerning alpha releases..." in Amy Editor:

just updated build script, you can re-download it, it should now work right out of the box. if not, please tell me more about yout environment, such as php version, platform etc. It should be able to run on latest PHP 5.2.x version, probably lower one as well (not php4).

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Petr Krontorad replied on January 29, 2008 22:34 to the idea "Concerning alpha releases..." in Amy Editor:

hi, i tried and it worked for me. i have set up new virtual host on apache as:

<virtualhost>
DocumentRoot /Users/p/Work/Exports/amy_editor_php # Change it to your path
ServerName amy-php-test.imac # change it as well

then go to conf/amy/configuration.php, forget anything you see there (because i'm stupid and left my hosting configuration credentials there:)), put the following code there:

<?php $_AMY_CONF = array('support-path'?>dirname(__FILE__).'/../../support/');
?>

It should be enough to run Amy without database. You can probably use Apache without virtual host settings, just put Amy to DocumentRoot and run http://localhost/ in your browser. I don't know, but it should work as well.

Petr Krontorad shared an idea in Amy Editor on January 29, 2008 21:52:

Concerning alpha releases...

General rule is to unpack it, run setup_amy_editor.sql script against your database (use `createdb amy_editor_development -E UTF8') - by hand or rake db:migrate in Rails. You should then setup your webserver (in case of PHP) or simply script/server (Rails) and Amy should be available via your browser. You can always use and look at the default Playground project. If you pass the step of successful opening this project, you're practically up and running. If not, leave a message here, I'll try to answer and it'll get sorted somehow :-).