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'''''16 July
 
'''''16 July
 
* Made a good launching screen design mock up and showed to my mentor to get review for further improvements.
 
* 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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