User:Hrishabh/GSoC20/logs

Development Logs

Community Bonding Period

• Explored the Qt's documentation for different shortcuts declaration styles.
• Made myself comfortable with Qt Programming[By following tutorials].
• Cleaned the code for an existing PR on Shortcut Configuration

Coding Period

• June 1-June 7:
  • Complete GUI Form [continued work from Bonding Period]
  • Add the GUI in preferences.
  • Made the GUI Functional and interactive
  • Added the support for writing the shortcuts to config-file.

• June 8-June 14:
  • Code Cleaning
  • Add Seach-Box in GUI
  • Made search efficient.

• June 15-June 21:
  • Add more functionality, like reset to defaults
  • Got first feedback
  • Worked on feedback changes

• June 22 - June 28:
  • Changed existing QShortcuts to QActions
  • Minor fixes

• June 29 - July 3:
  • Received good feedback from the mentors.
  • Removed bugs from the GUI like multiple Shortcut Catcher Dialog boxes while searching.
  • Gave special attention towards the undefined behavior due to unassigned pointers, Rule of 0/3/5 inconsistencies.

• July 4 - July 12:
  • Started Working on the Number-Scroll via mouse feature.
  • Skimmed through the code for the existing Scintilla Editor Code.
  • Wrote the code for handling the mouse wheel events.
  • Stuck on the abrupt jump of the number on scrolling.

[Bug- when I scroll the wheel one time then the wheel event is triggered twice.]

• July 13- July 19:
  • Talked with mentors regarding the bug.
  • Fixed the bug by installing event filter on the viewport()
  • Added an option to modify the step-size in the Preferences.

• July 20 - July 26:
  • Encountered a new bug causing abrupt jump of caret while changing the most significant digit.
  • Added an option to choose modifiers in the Preferences.
  • Fixed the bugs.

• July 27 - July 31:
  • Started working on feedbacks for Number-Scroll PR,
  • Made some changes in the Shortcuts-GUI PR for fixing more bugs, which my mentors bring into the attention.

• Aug1 - Aug 9 :
  • Fixed anomalous primary shortcut bug.
  • Add appropriate access modifiers to the ShortcutConfigurator Class.
  • Few more GUI enhancements in Shortcuts-GUI like changing column according to search.
  • Started working on Error-Log Feature.
  • Added initial GUI for Error-Log in the form of a Dockable Widget in MainWindow.
  • Add a new output_handler for Error-Log.

• Aug 10 - Aug 16:
  • Continuous Discussion with mentors and community regarding the need to remove old PRINTB() like macro expansion from the source-code, and replace it with a new LOG() statements.
  • Added a MessageClass for messages of all types in the application and a new LOG() function.
  • Started Replacing the 380+ PRINTB,PRINT,PRINT_DEPRECATION statements with new LOG() statements.

Aug 17 - Aug 23:

• • Continued replacing the old statements with a new one. [Took more than expected, because of my mistake and misinterpretation]
  • Figured out why, echo tests are failing.
  • Worked on the failing tests.

Aug 24 - Present:

• • Finished up the work with failing tests,
  • Implement Jump to Error Location.