[Mibble-users] Updates to MibbleBrowser.jar

[Rich Brown]

In January 2010, Dartware contributed a number of changes to Mibble to improve 
the user experience of the MibbleBrowser.jar program. As stated in the 
announcement and other postings (see the README in the github repository), 
Dartware contributed all these changes to Per Cederberg with the full knowledge 
that they would become GPL licensed. These changes added several useful 
features to MibbleBrowser:

* Click the MIB name in the left pane to display the full text of the MIB in 
the right pane.

* Keyboard shortcut (Ctl-O) for load/open a MIB file from the hundreds that are 
built into MibbleBrowser itself.

* Keyboard shortcut (Ctl-I) to import other MIB files from the customer's hard 
drive.

* Mibble now retains a list of the MIBs that were loaded when it quits.

* Mibble reloads that list of MIBs when it restarts. (If no MIBs are present, 
it loads a default set of MIBs. Unloading all MIB files is a convenient way to 
restore the default set of MIBs.)

For various reasons these changes were never merged into the mainline, but 
these mods were quite useful, and I would hate to see them lost as the product 
evolves in other ways.

Toward that end, I have created a github repository that shows the Dartware 
changes applied to the Mibble 2.9.2 base of 4Apr2009. There were only five 
files changed, and it is my hope that these could be merged back into the 
mainline. (I have neither the skills nor the tools to do this work myself.)

See the github repository to see the differences between the original 2.9.2 
version and the "Dartware" version. 
https://github.com/richb-hanover/mibble-2.9.2

Best regards,

Rich Brown
Hanover, NH USA