User:H1manshu/GSoC2022/Log

Dev Log

(newest first)

• 21 June:
  • I learned about QFile and QDir which will help in implementing closeEvent as this is not yet implemented in arbalest.
• 20 June:
• 19 June:
  • I created two new commits where I selected a suitable color for toolbutton that will be fit in both light and dark theme.
• 18 June:
  • I started learning event propagation and event filters where I came to know about QCoreApplication::notify. I tested QPushButton class and QLineEdit by taking one parent class and child class to see event propagation.
• 17 June:
  • Learnt about events which will help me to better understand the events that are in arbalest. I learned mouse events, paint events, context menu events, etc.
• 16 June:
  • I pushed a new commit to pr where I removed icons from QToolButton because setDefaultAction() is inheriting icons from QAction.
  • Added suitable colors for the menu bar and toolbar icons to suit both light and dark themes.
  • Fixed merge conflict.
• 15 June:
  • Took a day off because I was feeling exhausted.
• 14 June:
  • I found that the icon becomes green due to the icon that I had set for QAction in toogleGridAct. So when I click on the tool button of toggleGrid, it swaps with the color that had been set for icon in QAction.
  • I commented out setIcon of QToolButton for toggleGrid and ran the program. I found that the the setIcon for QAction is acting default for QToolButton too. The icon for QAction is already there for QToolButton too which means setDefaultAction is playing a part here.
• 13 June:
  • I created a new pull request to add toggle feature for Grid.
• 12 June:
  • Started working upon to add a toggle feature for Grid. This feature will be added in QToolButton for Grid.
• 9-11 June:
  • I learnt memory management and signals & slots in Qt. Also I took a tour of Qt Widgets.
• 8 June:
  • I created a new pull request where I added icons for menu items and icon color for both light & dark theme.
• 7 June:
  • I created a new commit to remove the absolute color of hover for QToolButton. Also, I am currently testing out which color will be best suitable for icons in menu items for both light and dark themes.
• 6 June:
  • I created a pull request to remove border and add padding. I also added hover background-color to QToolButton
• 5 June:
  • Done nothing as I came back from a different state of my country where I went for to appear the exam.
• 4 June:
  • Done nothing as today is my entrance exam.
• 3 June:
  • Done nothing as I am preparing for my upcoming entrance exam.
• 2 June:
  • I wrongly applied $Color-IconView for QToolButton. It should be different colors for different QToolButton. I created a new commit and pushed the changes for the same.
• 1 June:
  • I created a pull request to remove QPushButton and add QToolButton so that the QAction objects for file, view, and ray trace can be used as one single unit. And I mentioned this pull request with an issue

26 - 30 May

• 30 May:
  • Discussed with mentor for what to choose between QToolButton and QPushButton. Also I got to know that QAction can be assigned to QToolButton which will be better because once object of QAction is created then we can assign it to QToolButton.
• 29 May:
  • Started working on the issue where I saw QAction and QPushButton have been defined for the same New and similarly I found more like that.
• 28 May:
  • Done nothing as I couldn't get time because I went to see my father.
• 27 May:
  • Learnt about arbalest QMainWindow but only by far, I covered Menu bar. I found all the QAction * buttons are missing icons but code was already written to set icons for each QPushButton *. So I opened an issue. I will work on it tomorrow.
  • I also created a pull request for minor changes to main.cpp of arbalest.
  • I will cover Central Widget of arbalest which is the most important of this project because this is the area where the mouse support feature will be added. I will try to cover it from tomorrow during this community bonding period. Here an outline is taken from Qt docs of QMainWindow just for reference:
    
• 26 May
  • Created workspace where I built brlcad and rt-cubed. Set path for Qt 5.14.2 so that arbalest could be run to check if it is running without errors.