As the coding period started today, we (BRL-CAD GSOC students) got a mail from Sean to remind us about writing dev logs daily and other important things. Also I got the parcel having a beautiful diary with a printed GSOC’15 logo on it, a pen and a sticker. Such cute gifts always feel heavenly and… Continue reading
From where to start! 😛 It can take a life time, expressing how it feels when a Big dream of your life came true. 22 Oct, 2014 when our plane landed in San Francisco, US on the day of Diwali (a very important festival of Indian culture), after travelling thousands of miles from India, we… Continue reading
As I mentioned in my previous posts about my GSOC project, I have been working to improve the UI of OpenSCAD, a 3D CAD Modeler. The project is aimed to enhance the usability of the software by adding new features that are easy and quick to access and use and also to provide the aesthetic… Continue reading
Hello, Today we will develop our own editor using QScintilla. I hope you must have downloaded and installed it, if not, refer my last post. Before start developing, you must be familiar with the QScintilla Documentation. Also the QScintilla folder you have downloaded has complete documentation. Being in QScintilla main folder, type $firefox doc/html-Qt4Qt5/index.html and… Continue reading
QScintilla, What is this? QScintilla is a port to Qt of Neil Hodgson’s Scintilla C++ editor control. So QScintilla is a scintilla based editor that uses Qt functions to implement a good number of impressive features such as syntax highlighting, error indication, folding, code completion, breakpoints etc. QScintilla is available under the GNU GPL (v2… Continue reading
The next task in my proposal for GSOC was integrating an Editor into OpenSCAD. This integration of Editor is necessary, as it was observed that many users prefer external editors like notepad++ etc over legacy editor of OpenSCAD. These editors facilitates them with functionality like auto code completion, brace completion, syntax highlighting etc. A discussion… Continue reading
Finally the coding period of GSOC has arrived. There is no end of excitement but also little fear. Just praying and hoping for the best. As we had our final exams during community bonding period, I wasn’t able to devote enough time to my project. But whenever I got time, I read code and worked… Continue reading
Google Summer of Code, an opportunity to learn and work with great great developers working in real time open source projects, is really a big motivation for students to work hard towards learning programming. This time is very crucial for every student applying for this contest and I am one of them. Choosing a community… Continue reading