New Blog
My blog has moved to http://blog.greghaynes.net. This is due to issues I have run into while transferring Wordpress to my new server. Although there are many applications which do just this, some interesting choices by the Wordpress developers don’t allow it to run using the software I would like (most notably, PostgreSQL). Sorry for the inconvenience, and hopefully this new blog system works out for the better.
GSoC: Kobby Week 8
There has been a lot of development work this past week with Kobby. After posting about some design issues I was attempting to clear up before diving into code, Armin Burgmeier (Creator of infinote) pointed out that the term ’session’ in infinote is used to describe the editing ’session’ of a single document, unlike in Kate where it is used to describe a set of documents. Instead of deciding whether confuse either users or developers, I came up with a new naming scheme for the control dialogs which might actually better represent the actions being performed.
After getting the control dialogs worked out I went to connect the infinote functionality for an XmppConnection and ran into some issues with sigc++ and Qt. Luckilly this was a quick (albeit somewhat dirty) fix. It wasnt much longer before I got the connection functionality working, and ran into the next issue: Needing to use the Glib event system from my Qt app. Luckilly, libinfinity was designed to allow for the plugging in of any event system by implementing the Io interface the library provides to register sockets to be monitored and the handling callback functions (very cool). The only issue now is that as far as I can tell, the way this is implemented doesnt doesnt fit well with Glibmm’s design, meaning I may have to create the C GObject subclass for proxying the C++ wrapper by hand.
