User:Mafm

Personal Information

• Name: Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
• E-mail/GoogleTalk: manuel.montezelo
• IRC nickname (freenode network): mafm
• SourceForge username: mafm

GSoC (Google Summer of Code) 2008

• Project: OpenGL GUI Framework
• Example for interaction: http://brlcad.org/design/gui/ioe_proto_final.mov

Milestones

Milestones include (maybe some of them to be added or removed, to be discussed with the mentors and the community in general):

• Get logging working
• Get console working
• Being able to communicate with the back-end
• Displaying geometries
• Displaying various representations (wireframe, polygonal, etc)
• Rotating and positioning
• Input support (trackball, shift-grips)
• Clean cross-platform build system integration

Log

June 10:

• Mostly working in the Console window & functionality, still quite a lot of work to be finished.

June 9:

• Still working in the example application, but now it looks much better -- documented, code style, reorganizing things, making cursor visible (wasn't there in the POSIX version at least)... Screenshot:

June 8:

• Getting RBGui sample application to work, reading "administrative" information of rt^3 module and in general preparing for submitting the code.
• Commiting first patches, it's basically the example application coming with RBGui.

June 6:

• Patching and recompiling other branches needed of some of the components, RBGui doesn't work with the most recent stable versions of OGRE right away.
• Investigating a bit about other GUIs, updates on the considered GUIs, etc; with no interesting results: things are basically the same as when making the application.

June 5:

• Compiling OGRE and OIS (input system, needed for most applications using OGRE), since latest stable versions are not available in Debian. No big hassles.
• Compiling Mocha, a library needed by RBGui with misc utilities (3D math and the like) -- found a source RPM with minor patches for GNU/Linux systems, again no big problems.
• Compiling RBGui... this one is not so easy. Some CMake config files have to be modified, at least for my 64 bit system; and it's not in sync with OGRE (it seems to use some special function) so it doesn't compile successfully, yet.
• Thought: I'm starting to be a bit worried about RBGui... by the time of the application they had very recent releases adding support for [at least] GNU/Linux systems, apart from Windows. Now, even if there seems to be people porting it to MacOS X too, the developers seem are mostly silent and inactive. In general, it seems that this complicates the ease of installation for BRL-CAD users, and thus RBGui seems less convenient now than a while ago...

June 4:

• Misc. preparations: compiling up-to-date BRL-CAD, re-enabling subscriptions to mailing lists, and checking the tools to use (OGRE, RBGui). Not a very productive day, but not so bad to be the 1st day after weeks of overworking and travelling... and at least it's a start!

June 3:

• Back to Lisbon, at last. Hopefully tomorrow I'll start coding!

May 26:

• SoC program starts :)
• Due to some personal problems and exam dates (as already noted when submitting the application) I couldn't start coding or submitting patches to get commit access, note sure if I'll be able to start before June 5th or so.