KWWidgets/Projects/UIDesigner
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Goals
- The main goal is to design and implement an interactive user interface builder to generate GUI code based on KWWidgets.
- The end user will be able to design a user interface graphically, in what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSYWYG) mode, and save it to a XML file. One will have the ability to load this XML file for modification or directly generate KWWidgets code from it.
- Existing GUI designer toos, like Glade, Qt-Designer, Visual Studio and others, will be analyzed and compared in order to integrate the best aspects of these tools in the resulting software application
Roadmap
- • Get familiar with the wiki, design a documentation structure and start populating the pages with preliminary information.
- • Make a provisional project plan within the first two weeks.
- • Get familiar with KWWidgets
- • Write specifications for the project and split it into its main tasks
- • Design, implement and test.
The Application
Follow this link to know more about the 'beast'
Work Journal
- Notice
- This section just summarizes various important events in the project's advacement, like decision on the application's architecture, encountered errors, and the alike. To view all the steps followed for this project take a look here.
- 03/07/2006
- Install+config of a Linux-based workstation => Ubuntu 5.10 with gcc4.0, tcl/tk8.4, libxml2
- 03/08/2006
- Error messages "OPENGL_INCLUDE_DIR (ADVANCED)" and "OPENGL_gl_LIBRARY (ADVANCED)" are required variables and they are not found ...more info...
- 03/09/2006
- Redaction of the first version of the project plan
- 03/10/2006
- CMake wasn't able to find the 'libvtkCommonTCL.so.5.0' ...more info...
- CMake wasn't able to find the 'libcmVTK_WRAP_TCL2.so' ...more info...
- 03/20/2006
- Wiki pages' arborescence was created and content uploaded
- 03/21/2006
- First basic preliminary use-case diagram
- First version of the criteria list for the comparison study of some existing UI designers ...more info...
- 03/26/2006
- Started the comparison study of some existing UI designers. Started off by studying Glade
- 03/31/2006
- Continue the comparison study by reviewing Qt Designer ...more info...
- 04/06/2006
- Continue the comparison study by reviewing Visual Studio
- 04/13/2006
- Continue the comparison study by reviewing NetBeans
- 04/18/2006
- Wrapped up the comparison study by summarizing features wanted/needed in KWWidgets UI Designer
- 04/20/2006
- Started to study the KWWidgets API
- 04/27/2006
- Undertook a 'mini' study to define which graphical tool-kit to use for designing and implementing the application's main frame-work.
- 04/29/2006
- Uploaded a second version of the use-case diagram reflecting the summary of features obtained from the comparison study.
Uploaded a first "raw" layout proposal of the application.
- 05/02/2006
- Uploaded a third version of the use-case diagram reflecting remarks and reflections of the KWWidgets team. The availability of the use-cases is defined as present in either the early or the advanced stages of development.
- 05/05/2006
- Uploaded a time-line for the project's specifications and tasks, prioritized by Sebastien Barre, that *should* be implemented by the end of my project's duration.
- Uploaded a mock-up, proposed by Sebastien Barre, of the final layout of the application.
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