DesktopContent for Mambo is a simple program to allow frontpage content updates from the desktop. It's a small java program that can save you the time of opening a web browser, logging in, and creating a new news item. Now you can do all that via a small program quickly and easily.The program makes direct updates to the mySQL tables that the Mambo site is based on. The settings screen allows you to input the database settings that Mambo uses to make the same updates.

Version: 0.10 beta (8 August 2005)

Note: Currently only the Mac OS X version has been posted. It has been tested on Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.2.

Requires:

• J2SE(TM) Runtime Environment 5.0 - Windows/Linux Version
• J2SE(TM) Runtime Environment 5.0 - Apple Version
• MySQL Connector/J - Will work in Windows or Mac OS X
• Webhost with "remote database connection" support.  This should be spelled out in the features of your current plan or via an email with tech support.
• Mambo website
  

Installation:

1. First install the appropriate JRE 5.0 for your system following the directions from Sun.
2. Download the MySQL Connector/J and extract the file.
3. Copy the "mysql-connector-java-3.0.17-ga-bin.jar" file from the extraction directory and place it into the "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_04\lib\ext" or appropriate folder on your system. NOTE: Apple users need to place that same file into the "/System/Library/Java/Extensions/" folder.
4. After all the steps above have been completed, double clicking the DesktopContent.jar should launch the program.  NOTE:  Apple users need to change the Java preferences and make the Java JRE 5.0 the first environment.  This can be changed in the "/System/Applications/Utilities/Java/" folder.
   

Download here.

Please use the forum for support and feature requests.

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