http://cleardefinition.com/blog does what it says on the tin Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:05:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wow, how the summer flies!  This upcoming Monday marks the official "Pencils Down" for the 2008 Google Summer of Code! It's been a pretty low-screenshot summer, which is interesting since I'm doing interface things.  The truth of it is, though, that it's what's hooked up to the interface that is taking ... http://cleardefinition.com/blog/2008/08/14/almost-done-and-a-few-inbox-zero/ or, How to Know When You Still Have Learning to Do Yes, that is a line I recently patched out of my own code.  I was wondering why my simplifyProperties wasn't working right, so I tried it then saved it to disk - and lo and behold, all the style properties ... http://cleardefinition.com/blog/2008/07/17/setallattributes-newprops/ Just a quick update on my progress in the Summer of Code.  One general observation: the piecetable is a highly-engineered, fairly complex chunk of code!  I need a bit more "mentoring" than I anticipated when working with the piecetable, so I've decided to work on a few fronts: when I ... http://cleardefinition.com/blog/2008/07/01/wow-the-piecetable-is-crazy/ As a part of my Summer of Code project, I'm working on doing a user interface redesign!  To confirm the concepts I developed in my proposal, I'm conducting interviews, and decided to use the Internet as a tool to help me here!  Though I will be also doing in-person interviews, ... http://cleardefinition.com/blog/2008/06/02/summer-of-code-interview-yourself/ Google Summer of Code 2008 officially starts this week in the "main section" - coding!  In my case, I'll be working on revamping the Styles support and interface, and to avoid having to code it three times, I'm starting first with a design phase.  As such, I've been working on ... http://cleardefinition.com/blog/2008/05/27/and-theyre-off/ Clearly, it is AbiWord's lack of videos like this that keep it from being the dominant word processor "in the industry."  We don't have an equivalent, but I can fix that pretty easily. Vista Sales Video http://cleardefinition.com/blog/2008/05/01/the-secret-of-microsofts-success/ Howdy folks!  Thought I'd give an update on the AbiWord on Ubuntu work.  I've put up packages on my PPA, and as of version 2.6.2-0ubuntu0~ppa17 is in "final shape" - that is, I'm reasonably pleased that I have all packaging issues resolved.  We managed to get an MIR approved to ... http://cleardefinition.com/blog/2008/04/10/abi-on-ubuntu-and-guademy/ Why not?  After it seemed like only the lack of a package(r) was keeping Abi 2.6.0 out of Hardy, it became clear that wasn't a good enough reason.  Thus, I set about to get together a nice package of AbiWord 2.6.0, based somewhat on the original Ubuntu packages, but fixing ... http://cleardefinition.com/blog/2008/04/06/abiword-260-on-ubuntu/ Important patch #4 of the day is in and tested! It is late here, so I will let the screenshots speak (almost entirely) for themselves. Before: After: (For google to find for future programmers: If you have trouble with radio buttons and CreateWindow or CreateWindowEx - in my case when mixed ... http://cleardefinition.com/blog/2007/08/16/windows-xp-conquered/ I've had a productive morning here - implementing a major UI upgrade to my still-bright-shiny-and-new AbiCollab dialogs on Win32. Both the Accounts and Join dialogs had been created with Listboxes, because they're pretty simple. The Linux GUI has some more sophisticated GTK control, but my first priority was ... http://cleardefinition.com/blog/2007/08/15/listbox-to-treeview-join-dialog-v2/