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Subject:    [Kde-pim] KPilot developer's notes for spet. 23 2001
From:       Adriaan de Groot <adridg () cs ! kun ! nl>
Date:       2001-09-23 21:35:58
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[random rambling, late at night after a 13-hour hackfest] It compiles. You
can perform a SyncTest with it ( dcop kpilotDaemon KPilotDaemonIface
requestSync 0 ). You can even make a full backup of your Pilot with it,
but the directory where stuff is written may not be where you'd expect it.
This is because the getPilotUser() part of KPilotDeviceLink doesn't do all
the user name checking that it used to. You may need to set your username
to "" (empty) to be able to view the databases. It crashed in
FileInstallAction just now, though I don't see how. Please report it if
you notice same. Finally, I expect that it's going to become *far* easier
to setup Syncing structures, since the daemon now contains a stack of
SyncActions to perform, and it just pop's em off the stack and executes
them till the stack is empty. [more serious ChangeLog comments follow.]

KPilot Developer's notes for september 23rd 2001
================================================

My current development platform is RH 7.1 with KDE 2.1.1 -- even so I'm
committing things into HEAD.  I'm sure this will explode sometime and
I'll be forced to upgrade to KDE 2.2 or worse, but for now, that's the
platform I'm aiming for.

I'd like to take a moment to thank David Bishop, for sending me .ui files,
for causing noise on the mailing lists, and for being a pleasure to work
with. Together we've wrestled with Qt designer, uic, and replacing the
KPilot dialogs with something sensible made with designer.

* kpilot/options.h
* kpilot/kpilotConfig.{h,cc}
* kpilot/kpilot.cc kpilot/kpilotDaemon.cc kpilot/main-*.cc
  Factored out the --debug flags from each individual app, now in
  options.cc. This means each file with a main() was modified too.
  I must say it was a real bitch figuring out exactly which sequence of
  calls were needed for KCmdLineArgs::addCmdLineOptions(), and then
  finding out that ParsedArgs() also needed help.
* kpilot/kpilotDaemon.cc
  Sneaking in the QStack<> stuff just under the wire was a bad idea.
  Fixed an uninitialized pointer bug.

2001-09-23  Adriaan de Groot
* kpilot/uiDialog.{h,cc}
* kpilot/kpilotConfigDialog.{h,cc}
* kpilot/kpilotConfigDialog_base.ui
  New files -- the .ui file is from David Bishop -- re-implementing the
  configuration dialog using modern technology. uiDialog.{h,cc} are
  abstract base classes, suitable for reuse. kpilotConfigDialog.{h,cc}
  contains the behavior of the dialog, and the .ui file the UI.
* kpilot/kpilotConfig.{h,cc}
  Switched around #ifdef and #ifndef. This disabled setting debug levels
  in code with debugging on. Duh. Getting it right then showed all kinds
  of bugs in the other code. Added some documentation explaining possible
  crashes due to missing KApplication instance.
  FINALLY did something sensible about code duplication -- added get and
  set methods to a subclass of KConfig for all KPilot settings.
* kpilot/kpilotOptions.{h,cc}
  Is deprecated and removed. Say hello to the new world of .ui files.
* kpilot/kpilot.{h,cc}
* kpilot/memoWidget.cc
* kpilot/addressWidget.cc
* kpilot/conduitSetup.cc
  Lots of little changes to reflect the KPilotConfig changes. Mostly
  removing calls to setGroup() and readEntry(), which are now safely
  encapsulated.
* kpilot/pilotDaemon.{h,cc}
* kpilot/pilotDaemonDCOP.h
  Removed cruft, adapted to KPilotConfigSettings, and adapted to SyncActions.
  Changed silly startHotSync(int) DCOP method to requestSync(int).


2001-09-21  Adriaan de Groot
* kpilot/hotSync.{h,cc}
  Added an InstallFilesAction class, to run during a HotSync.

2001-09-20  Adriaan de Groot
* kpilot/kpilotlink.{h,cc}
* kpilot/main-test.{h,cc}
  All these files changed because of yet another re-architecting. Now we
  have HotSyncActions, which have direct access to the PilotDeviceLink,
  and which do "something". The test action just lists the databases
  present on the device. This has been tested with USB and with serial
  devices.
* kpilot/hotSync.{h,cc}
  Changed again to split the actions away from the device link (really,
  how I ever decided on that is a mystery to me now).
* kpilot/Makefile-standalone
  A Makefile that can be tweaked, that does not use autoconf, and is
  useful for making standalone tarballs.

2001-09-17  Adriaan de Groot
* kpilot/Makefile-kpilotConfig
  () New file for building a standalone config program.
* kpilot/main-config.{h,cc}
  () New .h file, new classes for implementing some behavior. The behavior
  is very minimal right now, but as an illustration for David (hey, now
  he needs to learn C++ coding) it's fine.
* TODO
  () Thought of lots of new things to do.

-- 
+------------------------------+
| Adriaan de Groot             | Drinken, in een bepaalde tijd symbolisch,
| http://www.cs.kun.nl/~adridg | is in een andere tijd zuipen - Wittgenstein

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