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Tuesday 2 December 2008

Some updates.. at last

By Arnaud Dupuis on Tuesday 2 December 2008, 17:54 - Association Subscribers Manager

Hi,
It's been a while since I last update the blog... Sorry for that, but in the other hand I worked a lot on Association Subscribers Manager.
I worked so much that I'm almost ready for a pre-alpha release. Some features are still not yet implemented but most of the hard work is already done. There is tons of new features in this new 3.0 version. I can list, from my deficient memory, the followings :
  • direct edition in the list view by double-clicking on a subscriber
  • the whole software has been recoded with C++/Qt4 which means that it is now available on microsoft windows and apple mac os x
  • new subscribers' database format which allow, for example, to embed fee settings
  • a brand new interface with fancy elements like sliding popup
  • a new user interface paradygm : popup limited to the minimum, most of the time all windows are embed in the main one
  • lots of performance improvements
  • compatibility with previous versions of Association Manager
  • and so on, and so forth...
All of these things are available right now on the SVN repository. For those who subscribed to the "Assuma Service Pack", the latest compiled version is available at http://download.infinityperl.org/association_manager/3.0-poc/.
Once again, I remind to all people who may read this, that Association Subscribers Manager is an Open Source software and the sources can be downloaded from Sourceforge's SVN. But, I am selling some services around this software, like trainning, packaging, automatic updates, etc.

I am planning a final release of the 3.0 version in the beginning of 2009 (maybe during february). Anyway I will keep you informed.
And concerning slack-get... Well... I have work a lot on Association Subscribers Manager ;-)

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Tuesday 21 October 2008

News and update, my recent development in Association Subscribers Manager

By Arnaud Dupuis on Tuesday 21 October 2008, 07:02 - Association Subscribers Manager

Hi,
It's been a while since I last post here... Sorry, I have tons of super-bad excuses for that (working too much, not enough time, etc.).
The truth is that I am so busy coding that I forget to post on the blog ! :)
Lately, I have coded a lot on one of my project out of slack-get. The project name is Association Subscribers Manager (short name is Assuma) and it is an associations subscribers manager !
The source code is available on Sourceforge's SVN as usual. This software is a little different than my other traditionnals Open Sources ones because I am selling the packages.
The source code is available for free but all services associated with it are not free. In time, when the 3.0 release will be fully ready, you will be able to buy working binaries for the main plateforms available on the market.
The source code is completly free (as "Free Software" and "as a beer"), only the services of compilations, auto-update, etc. will be costing you money.
The reason why I think this software can be better than another ? Because since the 0.1 version (we are now aiming at the 3.0) it has been developped in collaboration with French sports associations.
So I am pretty confident in the application fitting for small and middle sized associations. The application is daily tested with databases exceeding 1000 subscibers, so it can be used for pretty huge associations/clubs.
It is of course not limited to one kind of association/club, it has been developped with multi-usage in mind.
On the plateform support side, until the 2.0 version the only supported plateform was Linux (the application is developped in Perl and PerlQt3). The 3.0 release will bring Association Subscribers Manager to all plateforms with a code completly rewritten in C++/Qt4.

So as you can easily figured I have work a lot on this project and, unfortunatly, not really on slack-get ... Mainly because as all humans I have to sleep sometimes :(
Here are the SVN statistics for the last 7 days:

It has been a busy week :)

See you later !

Arnaud Dupuis

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Saturday 30 August 2008

slack-get user interface: step 1, how I see the futur

By Arnaud Dupuis on Saturday 30 August 2008, 00:43 - slack-get

Hi,

as I already said I am currently developping the C++ API of slack-get. I also wrote that I am concentrating on usefull part of the API, skipping the generative parts that are not absolutly required at the moment. So in parallel to this development, I made some tests for the graphical user interface. I came up with the conclusion that there is 2 different way to use slack-get :

  1. Keep a Slackware box up-to-date by installing security fixes and Slackware patches
  2. Keep a box up-to-date, upgrade and install packages (but not patches)
So, considering that I decided to come with 2 different GUI : a dock application to tell users that there is patches available and the full graphical client (like the previous slack-get GUI).
I starts coding a little widget (Slackget::QSimpleUpdate). This one looks like that :


I am interested in any opinion/advice/suggestion concerning this. The code of this proof-of-concept is available on the SVN (in trunk/src/QSimpleUpdate/). I made it themable thanks to Qt4 support of CSS.
So far, I think it is a quite fine dock application. I wanted it to be simple to get working, and I also wanted that this widget is able to display enough informations.

That's all for today :)

Arnaud Dupuis

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Saturday 8 March 2008

PKanaEditor - The "P" Kana Editor v0.2 - windows binaries

By Arnaud Dupuis on Saturday 8 March 2008, 07:32 - C++

Hi,
Since I'm currently working on a windows xp computer, I got the occasion to compile PKanaEditor on this platform.
So, attached to this post is the windows installer containing required Qt dll and PKanaEditor binary.

This version is provided for convenience without any guarantee it will work on your windows install ;-)

Enjoy !

Arnaud Dupuis

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Tuesday 26 February 2008

Public test of the PKanaEditor main widgets (KanaEditor, KanaTextEdit and KanaListWidgetItem)

By Arnaud Dupuis on Tuesday 26 February 2008, 11:55 - C++

Hi,

I finished to implements almost all features I wanted for PKanaEditor 0.2... in the editor widget. Well that left some works to have a complete application working smooth and fine. But since the editor widget is almost finished, I would like to have some feedback.
So I hereby release the first alpha version of this editor. Please note that this is not the complete application, it do not allow you to save your work and do nothing else but to translate what you write from romanji to kana.

I still would like some feedback about the choice I made in the implementation.
I am particularly interested in your opinion about the following points :
  • the way the kana are automatically presented to user (the completion through the "helper" popup)
  • the contextual help system (when you let your mouse above a kana a tooltip with a big version of the kana and it's meaning (for kanjis) is drawn)
  • your global feeling about this editor.
Please keep in mind that this is only the editor part of the software !
There is still time before the release of the whole program. So if some brave souls could test this editor and give me interesting feedback, I could make it better.

In order to use this editor you have to compile it. This means you need Qt4 (at least 4.2.0 but 4.3.0 or newer is recommended), g++ and make.
To compile the code for your plateform you just have to do the followings :
qmake PKanaEditor.pro
make
./PKanaEditor

I tested it on GNU/Linux (Slackware+KDE) and Windows XP and it should compile and run on Mac OS X and most of the common Unice (*BSD, etc.).
Here is a screenshot of the windows xp version :


I hope you will like it !

don't forget: feel free to send me your feelings about this... Did I mention that I wanted feedback ?

Arnaud Dupuis

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Monday 25 February 2008

PKanaEditor updates

By Arnaud Dupuis on Monday 25 February 2008, 11:54 - C++

Hi,
After some thoughs I choose to change the way the helper is shown in the KanaEditor.
The tab-based widget was not easy to use in real usage conditions.
So I changed the thing and made a new helper based on a single QListWidget.
Here is the new result on Linux/KDE :


And on windows XP :

I think the Japanese font installed on the windows I use are just crappy.
Else, I can't explain the difference in quality between the windows version and the Linux one.
Next time, I will try to compile it on apple's Mac OS X.

Last but not least, I made a Qt Designer plugin of this KanaEditor widget. And thanks to the guy of irc://irc.freenode.net#qt I fixed a damn semi-colon at the end of the class definition which was "preventing" my code to compile...

See you later.

Arnaud Dupuis

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Wednesday 20 February 2008

PKanaEditor new version proof of concept

By Arnaud Dupuis on Wednesday 20 February 2008, 14:40 - C++

Hi,
I never talk about my private life (or very few), but this time it had an influence on my Open Source work !
So here is the information : I will be married by june !
And my futur wife and I decided to spend our honeymoon in Japan... So make the link by yourself between this journey and PKanaEditor ;-)

So I have begin to code a proof of concept in C++/Qt4 and with some surprise it works pretty good ! Have a look at this screenshots :


Moreover, my new mission force me to code under microsoft windows xp, so I tried to recompile this PoC under windows and it works too ! Have a look :


Dudes from Trolltech made some incredible works ! I know it works since years but I didn't put my hands on a windows computer  in more than 8 years, and at this time I wasn't programming at all... I was too young ;-).

I now lack the XML loading of the data file and this PoC will be a stable version :)

For those who are interested in Qt programming, I do the trick translating romanji to (hiraga|kataka)na|kanji by subclassing QListWidgetItem and adding a _romanji internal QString to this item. The actual displayed character is set as the item text. Pretty simple, like the major part of Qt programming !!

The only real problem is to find a new meaning to the "P" of PKanaEditor (because it originally means Perl Kana Editor)...

Arnaud Dupuis

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Thursday 13 December 2007

Trolltech's big move !

By Arnaud Dupuis on Thursday 13 December 2007, 20:25 - KDE

TodayTrolltech announced that the Phonon back-ends they have developped are being hosted on KDE's SVN repository !
That's a hell of great news since it bring back-ends for both windows and Mac OS X KDE's port !
As a programmer I'm very excited with KDE 4 and all the things around like Phonon, Solid and the others. And since I'm a big fan of Qt I'm very glad that Trolltech made such a great move.
Keep going on !

Arnaud Dupuis

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Saturday 15 September 2007

Qt 4.3.1 second package

By Arnaud Dupuis on Saturday 15 September 2007, 16:21 - Slackware packages

After the first package we released, here is the second version.


Changes are only in the configuration :
./configure -prefix /usr/lib/qt4 -glib -opengl -confirm-license

So now the base directory is /usr/lib/qt. There is no other changes in this package.
I'm looking forward for the next Qt 4 release !

Download link: qt-4.3.1-i386-2.tgz

Arnaud Dupuis

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Saturday 8 September 2007

Qt 4.3.1 first package

By Arnaud Dupuis on Saturday 8 September 2007, 17:31 - Slackware packages

Here is the first public release of the Qt4 package. This package is the last version of Qt4 (4.3.1).

I already use it successfully. The package was built from qt-x11-opensource-src-4.3.1 with the following configure : ./configure -prefix /usr -glib -opengl

If you don't want to replace your Qt 3 installation please use :

installpkg -root /usr/local/ qt-4.3.1-i386-1.tgz

Feel free to send me (or drop here) your comment or suggestion.

Enjoy !

download link: qt-4.3.1-i386-1.tgz

Arnaud Dupuis

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