Hello World.
This is my first blog post after the Coding Period officially began, I’ve started to write code for the application. During the Community Bonding period, I got the menu listing for SuperPrefs. My last exam got over on June 6. I worked on the basic application layout during the beginning of June. This was how the application looked initially:
The application hosts seperate sections for holding the Preferences based on their category. I also added a Search field for searching the contents of an application, though this has not been implemented yet.
Hello everyone! This is a rather short update on the Swift port and since the last blog post, I’ve worked around a small issue that prevented the compiler from importing libraries by specifying the -sdk parameter with a ‘/’ which passes the correct header search paths to swiftc. This issue also existed on other platforms such as FreeBSD according to this thread in the swift-dev mailing list [1]. Whilst researching around the frequent swift interpreter crashes when opening a swift source file, the fault lies in libswiftCore being unable to extract type metadata from swift-generated dynamic libraries when calling these functions specified in the ProtocolConformance and Metadata classes. It is also evident that whenever swift attempts to load this metadata at runtime, it uses ‘dl_iterate_phdr()’ to iterate over every ELF object loaded into the process address-space and will initiate a callback that will emit internal ELF information defined in the dl_phdr_info* struct. I will spend this week with my mentors to implement a Haiku replacement for this function.
Hey there, it's time for the monthly report again!
This report covers hrev51139-hrev51195.
User interface
Brian Hill fixed a glitch in the Screen preferences. The preference panel
shows a preview o the screen, and as a nice finishing touch, it adopts the
current background color. However, this did not anticipate that the color
could change while the application is running. Now the screen preferences is
notified when such a change happens, so it can update itself completely to the
new color.
Hello again
Here goes my second weekly report describing my efforts and endeavours in the last two weeks. I haven’t produced a lot of code, but I am not sitting idle.
Technical Report
Firstly, as advised by Alex (kallisti5), I have a Technical Report[1] prepared - a rough outline of how and what all changes to the codebase are planned for this summer project. It is a very basic roadmap which I will try my best to stick to but cannot guarantee.
Hello Everyone!
In this post I would be focusing on my last two weeks of community bonding.
The coding period has officially began on 30th, although I had already started
it in my second week itself.
I had one or two different things in mind for this week as I mentioned in my
previous post. But I ended up working on implementing a locale aware date
header, and the calendar widget, which is more important initially as to
implement the basic functionalities of the calendar app, and is also the first
goal. In the process, I also gained a better understanding of the locale kit
and Haiku date/time classes.
Hello Everyone,
This is my third blog post and the last post on my work during communty bond period. The coding period has officially started! Yay!
I have started working on a application that renders text using FreeType and Harfbuzz you can find it here. It has two branches one of them successfully compiles and renders some some text in English using already existing technology in Haiku. The other branch "broken" will include all my latest updates, harfbuzz & freetype library and probably won't compile. You might even this that few things in the code can be implemented in a better way.
Hy there!
I am writing this blog as a combined report for the past 2 weeks. As I mentioned on the mailing this, I had college exams till 25th. Really hectic. But I have been able to get some work done from then.
Community bonding
Didn't get a chance to know a lot of them but I did break some conversation with a few people. My short talk with axeld on the IRC got me into knowing the names responsible for the current implementation of TCP in Haiku. Axel has also been helpful in pointing me towards some useful resoures. Also had a short talk with tojoko.
Hi everyone,
It's me again, this is my third report of my project about what I have done in this week. There is no coding, just reading and reading a lot. Now, I am confident to say that I can fully understand all the things in Btrfs codebase. I lurked a little around Linux's source and mailing list for Btrfs, but it didn't help much since the source is large, complicated and I don't know where to start to read, so I decide to implement Btrfs in my own way and back to read if encounter problems. I have tried to produce some bugs by making many directories and files with different size, and then see that can Haiku's Btrfs handle (cd and ls) it, lucky that it worked well otherwise I had works to do.
Hello everyone!
Last week I introduced myself and my GSoC project on porting Swift to Haiku, which can be found here in case if you missed it. The bonding period so far involved a mix of initial communication with my mentors jua_ and korli (Thanks for merging my HaikuPorter recipes!) alongside receiving assistance from other haiku-devs, notably PulkoMandy and waddlesplash. In addition, I mostly spent the week researching the swift front-end driver internals [1] by reading its documentation, patching more script files used for building swift and meeting several other GSoC students on IRC/mailing lists; and I wish them good luck with their projects. Shortly afterwards, I’ve made contact with the swift-dev mailing list about this project and asked about adding 32 bit support and both ideas are acceptable with the swift community [2]. But until the x86_64 port has a functioning toolchain, x86 support will be considered later.
Hello World.
This is an update to my previous blog post which dealt with the introduction to the GSoC project which I’ll be working this summer - Preferences GUI Refactoring. It’s been two weeks since the first post went live, so here’s the report for the weeks after that.
This being the Community Bonding period, I pretty much did what the title says. Got to know about fellow GSoCers, they really are friendly and helpful. Myself, my mentors (waddlesplash and Sean), PulkoMandy, jua_ and humdinger had our first meeting, infact a very long meeting. The meeting was more of a discussion on the last blog post’s comments. Last blog post received so many suggestions and constructive criticisms, let me thank everyone for their valuable feedback. We did take everything into concern. The major changes that are done to the project after the blog post:
