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'''''7 June
 
'''''7 June
 
* Read and became familiar with QScintilla documentation to add new features into the scintilla Editor.
 
* Read and became familiar with QScintilla documentation to add new features into the scintilla Editor.
 
===Week 4===
 
  
 
'''''9 June
 
'''''9 June
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'''''14 June
 
'''''14 June
 
* Today's task was to work towards syntax highlighting. Qscintilla has different lexer classes such as QsciLexerCPP, QsciLexerJava etc for highlighting syntax of different languages. But all the keywords used in openscad are not supported in single language. Planning how to tackle this problem.
 
* Today's task was to work towards syntax highlighting. Qscintilla has different lexer classes such as QsciLexerCPP, QsciLexerJava etc for highlighting syntax of different languages. But all the keywords used in openscad are not supported in single language. Planning how to tackle this problem.
 
===Week 5===
 
 
'''''16 June
 
* A new class ScadLexer is made that is inherited from QsciLexerCPP class, which contain the enum having labels for different style IDs.
 
* A keyword method in QsciLexerCPP is overridden in ScadLexer to define Openscad set of keywords.
 
 
'''''17 June
 
* DefaultColor function of QsciLexerCPP is overridden in ScadLexer which return colors for different sets of keywords defined in keyword method in the same class.
 
* Preference syntaxhighlight string is called to know the current value of Edit/Preference/Editor set by the user in the openscad window.
 
* Provide different colors to keywords according to dark, light or no background color.
 
 
'''''18 June
 
* Unable to change the syntax color when the user changes the settings.
 
* The defaultColor method in ScadLexer and setHighlightScheme method in ScintillaEditor needs to be connected somehow. Tried some methods getting ideas from existing Highlighter class for legacyEditor.
 
 
'''''19 June
 
* The idea of DefaultColor method is dropped because it is automatically called by the lexer and two such functions for different backgrounds can't be defined.
 
* The inbuilt lexer function setColor is used in setHighlightScheme function to provide colors to different keyword sets, operators, numbers etc according to their style IDs mentioned in qscilexercpp.h.
 
 
'''''20 June
 
* Appropriate colors to the keyword sets are given using to monokai color pallete.
 
* Set editor utf8 for supporting unicodes.
 
* provided inconsolata font.
 
* Committed my changes for the mentor's review.
 
 
'''''21 June
 
* Explored about adding custom toolbar having most usable actions.
 
* Downloaded and edited required Icons.
 
* Made toolbar at the top of the MainWindow
 
 
===Week 6===
 
 
'''''23 June
 
* Reviewd toolbar from mentor but due to a Qt bug, toolbar styles were not supported at every platform.
 
* Explored for different option how to get user's desktop settings.
 
 
'''''24 June
 
* Regenerate all the icons in black color.
 
* The icons will be black if the default desktop setting as light gray color and white if it has dark color as default settings.
 
 
'''''25 June
 
* Made more icons for wireframe and surface
 
* Tested all icons by adding them in light gray toolbar
 
 
'''''26 June
 
* Made two different toolbars one at editor side and other at glView (rendering window) side.
 
* Added more suitable icons
 
 
'''''27 June
 
* Some actions like showaxes, showedges in toolbar are not working. Trying with different methods.
 
* Added direct actions and icons in mainwin.cc instead of ToolBar class and it worked.
 
 
===Week 7===
 
'''''3 July
 
* Read about the color theory and tried to modify existing themes of rendering window of openscad
 
 
'''''4 July
 
* My mentor suggested that I should add new themes with new names rather than modifying existing one. So tried to made new ones
 
 
'''''5 July
 
* Added icons for preview, perspective. orthogonal for both dark and light default color scheme.
 
 
'''''6 July
 
* Added icons for animate and cross hairs for both dark and light default toolbar color scheme.
 
 
'''''7 July
 
* Improved syntax highlighting color scheme.
 
* Improved new added rendered model themes and provided them new names.
 
 
===Week 8===
 
'''''8 July
 
* Committed and pushed themes
 
* Started working towards adding run time option for switching editor from legacy to scintilla
 
 
'''''9 July
 
* Added combo box in Preferences.ui with the help of designer and added both editors as different options.
 
* Tried to get the current value of selected editor option in preferences in mainwin.cc but it is causing some errors.
 
 
'''''10 July
 
* Successfully got the value of selected editor option in mainwin.cc and changed editor in mainwindow according to the user's selected editor option.
 
 
'''''11 July
 
* Solved the problem of not showing previously selected editor option in Preferences dialog box.
 
* Solved the problem of showing unnecessary warning for save changes even when nothing has been modified in scintilla editor.
 
 
'''''12 July
 
* Decided what should be done next with mentors and planned to work towards making launching screen for openscad.
 
* Started working towards making mock up of launching screen design.
 
 
===Week 9===
 
 
'''''14 July
 
* Looked at launching screen of few famous software for inspiration
 
 
'''''15 July
 
* Tried making different designs but still not satisfied :(
 
 
'''''16 July
 
* Made a good launching screen design mock up and showed to my mentor to get review for further improvements.
 
 
'''''17 July
 
* Made new class LaunchingScreen in openscad and added basic widgets using Qt designer.
 
 
'''''18 July
 
* Added background and colors to the buttons in launchingscreen of openscad.
 
 
'''''19 July
 
* LaunchingScreen is added in the scope of MainWindow but this way launching screen get showed up on every new window. Need to have some different logic.
 
 
===Week 10===
 
 
'''''21 July
 
* LaunchingScreen is added in openscad.cc but it is showing launching screen even when a filename is given at command line.
 
 
'''''22 July
 
* A bool variable is added that checks if the file size is 0 at cmd line or not and shown launching screen accordingly.
 
 
'''''23 July
 
* Tried adding signal slots of new, open and help buttons in openscad.cc but it is creating a mess there because the slots are defined in mainwin.cc. Need to adopt some different way.
 
 
'''''24 July
 
* To have better and clean code, LaunchingScreen object is defined in mainwin.cc but the launcher is shown in openscad.
 
 
'''''25 July
 
* Added recent files in List Widget but currently it is not working on clicking the file name.
 
 
'''''26 July
 
* Added recent file path instead of just name and added a button Open Recent, by clicking which, the selected item in List Widget will open up in the editor.
 
 
===Week 11===
 
 
'''''28 July
 
* Disable Open Recent button if nothing selected.
 
* Added TreeWidget for examples parallel to Recent List Widget with the help of designer.
 
 
'''''29 July
 
* Added Categories names as top level elements in treeWidget.
 
* Got the names of the examples in show_example() function in mainwin.cc and added in treeWidget.
 
 
'''''30 July
 
* Examples are not working after clicking on them so added button Open Example using the same logic of Open Recent button.
 
* Examples are still not working on opening the currentItem.
 
 
'''''31 July
 
* Gave full path of example instead of file name as parameter to openFile function and now examples are working :)
 
 
'''''1 August
 
* Made the check box work to hide the launcher and save the user settings.
 
* Made an option in Preferences/features to show the launcher again.
 
 
'''''2 August
 
* Made the size of the launcher dialog box fixed.
 
* Pushed the code for reviewing
 
 
'''''3 August
 
* Wrote the blog post about the major contribution of the project to openscad software https://shainasabarwal.wordpress.com/2014/08/03/gsoc-project-ui-brushup-of-openscad/
 
 
===Week 12===
 
 
'''''4 August
 
* Read about the Monokai theme for our new QScintilla Editor
 
* Set the monokai theme for Qscintilla Editor and provided its option in Preferences box
 
 
'''''5 August
 
* Read about the Solarized theme.
 
* Set the Solarized theme for QScintilla Editor and also provided the option in Preferences.
 
 
'''''6 August
 
* The find and replace functions are not working into the QScintilla Editor. Studying for how to implement these functions.
 
 
'''''7 August
 
* Read the QScintilla documentation and find various function to implement find and replace in our new editor.
 
* Made the find, replace, and find next operations working in the qscintilla editor but there is no function available for find previous.
 
 
'''''8 August
 
* As we have editor interface for both editors - Legacy editor and QScintilla editor. So it is required to make the common function for find and replace operations for both the editors.
 
* Discussed with mentors about this.
 
 
'''''9 August
 
* Made the common functions for find, replace, find next in the editor interface for both editors.
 
 
===Week 13===
 
 
'''''11 August
 
* Hide the options of indent/unindent comment/uncomment from the Edit Menu when the QScintilla editor is on as these options are no more required in the qscintilla editor.
 
 
'''''12 August
 
* Trying to find the way how to implement find previous and replace all options in the scintilla editor
 
 
'''''13 August
 
* Tweaked some icons in the toolbar. Shifted render icon in rendered window toolbar from editor toolbar and removed some icons that are less often used.
 
 
'''''14 August
 
* Worked towards making the font and size options in preferences window working for the qscintilla editor.
 
 
'''''15 August
 
* Font and size can be changed in qscintilla editor through preference option.
 
* Removed the problem of articrafts in open Example and open Recents buttons.
 
 
'''''16 August
 
* Cleaned up code of branches scintillaeditor and launchingscreen
 
 
'''''17 August
 
* Working towards changing the launching screen checkbox text from "show me everytime" to "Don't show again" on suggestions of mentors.
 

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