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Latest revision as of 14:58, 22 September 2013
Requirements[edit]
Qt 5.1 has to be installed.
Project Summary[edit]
Being my first participation in Google Summer of Code and my fist contact with open source projects I was very excited and eager to start working.
For the past three months I worked on implementing a new display manager for BRL-CAD. The project focused on implementing a Qt display manager having the following functionalities which were also my initial milestones:
- Embed Qt in Tk windows
- Drawing
- Line drawing
- Text drawing
- Keyboard and mouse integration
- Embedding a framebuffer window
Before midterm evaluation I focused on the first two aspects: embedding Qt in Tk windows and drawing. I have experienced a lot of difficulties while trying the embedding, but finally at midterm the display manager was able to draw almost every model.
After midterm evaluation, I focused on dealing with keyboard and mouse events since it's an important aspect. I tried to do everything so that new key bindings can be easily added, this means adding a function that has as input a Qt event and returns the corresponding Tk one. Another aspect that I've achieved in this period is integrating Qt in archer which was quite tricky since there were a lot of problems that needed to have a better solution: event processing which was done non-blocking, I've managed to simulate the behavior so that there wouldn't be any needs to modify the existing archer code. The last aspect I've been working on after midterm evaluation is embedding a framebuffer window. After making some research and discussing with my mentor I've decided to start implementing a new Qt framebuffer interface which is at the beginning but I am eager to continue working after GSoC to finish this project too.
During the final days I've been focusing on testing, commenting and solving issues.
Results[edit]
One of the best way to see the actual results is from screenshots:
To use the display manager in classic mged simply select it when prompted:
To use the display manager in mged it must be selected from Modes->DisplayManager->Qt.
After a lot of changes in event processing the display manager can be used in archer too. At this moment there isn't a option like in mged (Modes->DisplayManager->Qt) so what has to be done to use the dm in archer is modify src/tclscripts/lib/Get.tcl line 957 (set dmType qt) and deactivate the use of Display Lists:
More infos about the development process can be found on the log page.
To be done[edit]
One of the most important aspects that need to be done after GSoC is the development of a new Qt framebuffer interface which I already started.
