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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Understanding KWord sources
From:       "Michael Marcucio" <michaelmarcucio () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2001-12-07 0:58:11
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hello,
the way i get familuar with new programs is to pick a part i want to lean 
about (ie. opening files) and trace through the program. what i mean by 
"trace" is find out where the code starts for the part you want to trace and 
step through the code so you see/follow the flow of the program.
but the most common way i get to know a program is to trying to fix a bug. 
you really don't have too much of a choice but to get a feel for the program 
in this situation.
i hope this helps...
good luck..
--mike

>From: Chris Howells <chrish@gmx.co.uk>
>Reply-To: koffice-devel@mail.kde.org
>To: koffice-devel@kde.org, kde-devel@kde.org
>Subject: Understanding KWord sources
>Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 22:26:57 +0000
>
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>Hi,
>
>This is quite a weird question, but I'll ask it anyway :)
>
>I've just looked at the KWord sources, and implemented a custom variable.
>However, I was cheating a bit since David Faure told me how to do it ages
>ago, as a way of getting into hacking (thanks David :) ).
>
>However, the sources are so full of variable names, functions, and 
>everything
>(and I'm only a beginner programmer), that I'm finding it very hard to
>understand how everything slots together.
>
>What I'd really like to know is what the "best" way of getting acquainted 
>with
>the sources of a new program that you want to hack on is. Sure, this will
>vary between programs, and some will be more complicated than others -- but
>surely there must be some kind of generic technique that can be applied to
>all programs to get a better understanding of the sources?
>
>Many thanks
>
>- --
>Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org
>Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt
>KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org
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