Re: Project Center Architecture and other things ( was Re: New ProjectCenter Icons )

[Sergii Stoian]

Hi, Gregory.

Thank you for the good words.

Could you please send me changes (GDB support) before committing into SVN?

I plan to finish editor related items (wishes, bugs). It would be great to include initial GDB support into 
0.5.0 release.

P.S.: Do you have source (svg, xcf) of images you've committed into PC? Or images with bigger sizes? Could you please send them to me? 

Thank you.

On 9/17/07, Gregory John Casamento <greg_casamento@yahoo.com> wrote:

Sergii,

I would like to say, after looking at the architectural improvements that have been made to PC, that I'm really impressed. 

I like the modules approach as it allows you to separate out functionality into manageable pieces.  It's very much like the palette approach in Gorm.

I am currently working on a number of things in gui, PC and Gorm:

* GUI: margins -- Mac OS X has borders which are slightly different from GNUstep.   Margins are left over for drop shadows and such.   This work is more than what was originally thought.

* PC: Addition of the debugger interaction module.   Currently, I am working on one which is GDB specific.  Also adding the code which supports some minimal messaging to and from Gorm to allow it to notify PC when a resource has been added.

* Gorm: Corresponding changes here for PC integration.  This involves the implementation of things in the GormLib/InterfaceBuilder library which were, previously, unimplemented or only protocols.

For integration with PC we need to think about having PC link with GormLib or, at the very least, have it use some of the code from GormLib to allow it to use the protocols that it defines. 

Anyway... those are my current projects in GNUstep and my thoughts on the subject.

Later, GJC
--
Gregory Casamento

----- Original Message ----
From: Sergii Stoian <stoyan255@gmail.com>
To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 6:51:59 PM
Subject: Re: New ProjectCenter Icons

Hello, everybody.

Let me express my thoughts about ProjectCenter development in context of current discussion.
PC architecture still evolving and aimed to be organized in context of "Integrated" development
environment. What I mean by "Integrated"? As Daniel Santos have already said ProjectCenter
should be a code which organize project files (code, make files, images, interfaces etc.) and
provide ability to edit code files, build project, debug application or tool. Ability can be bundled
with application or can be separated into other application/tool.

All parts, except project organization, must be modules. This modules can be activated during
work with project (if user selects defaults to work with project) or can be left along in favor
of user preferred. The modular approach allow to reach several targets:

1. It allows to create application wrappers around modules. So if you want, for example, editor
    to work with your code you can use PCEditor application without invoking ProjectCenter itself.

2. Somebody can write better parts of PC without changing PC itself. So, you can create
    better code editor as module and select it through PC preferences. If you want to work in 
    some way with GORM files you can create module and specific view will be opened on click
    within project browser.

Moreover, I'm not satisfied with current PC framework contents. I'll plan to move GUI code to the
upper level (PC application) and leave only project organizing code inside. Builder, Launcher/Debugger
will be moved to modules section. Preferences, Inspector, Project Window will be the part of PC
application.

So this is a plans for future. Everything I need is free time for that... :(

Anyway, the faster I finish architectural changes the earlier will be Gorm integration.

--
Sergii Stoian, ProjectCenter maintainer

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Sergii Stoian, ProjectCenter maintainer