House keeping...

Although I should have spent my time doing other things, I’ve spent most of the day working on tidying up the installation of the Gnocl Canvas and Gnome packages. I can see why these were included with the original distribution, Tk, for instance has an integral canvas widget and so emulating a Gtk+ version of Tk would suggest such an approach. The Gtk+ widget set, however, does not have a native canvas widget. This is purely a Gnome object. The building of these items does rely upon Gnocl functionality however, and so rather than including any future gnocl related item under the gnocl source tree, it makes more sense to me to place build libraries and included in the ‘ standard places’ and allow each new package to be developed independently. I’ve brought the Canvas package up to date and have still only a small amount to finish on the gnome package which I expect to upload later this week.

Cleaned up download

Got back from a spot of camping this weekend in Wales. Visited Portmerion near Portmaddog. Always wanted to visit there ever since my childhood. It was the location for The Prisoner tv series from the 1960s (which I remember watching as a child). It was a great place to visit especially since it was sunny. An extra treat was the appearance of a Prisoner re-enactment group who performed the well-remembered chess game on the lawn in the square. Ah, they don’t make TV like that anyone!

Well, returned and read my email. A few errors in the 0.9.95 release have been thrown up which I have now rectified and fresher 0.9.95 has been uploaded.

Completed Gamma Filter

Don’t think that because there’s been fewer blog posts that I’ve given up interest in the pixbuf filters module -oh no! Its the school/college Easter holidays and so I’ve been pre-occupied with a fair number of family duties and responsibilities. This time of year sees me doing a lot of DIY, not just as my own home, but that of my eldest daughter and my sister. This weeks handwork has included laying a kitchen floor, planting fruit trees (five, 7 if you include planting raspberry canes and rhubarb roots), clearing a vegetable patch and knocking down the side of an outbuilding so that it can be relaid! Oh, and I forgot to also mention, attendance at a daily ice-skating class and the regular camping expedition to mid-Wales. Ok, got a few mins, fixed the filter. A couple more to do and then the basic set is done... yay!

Work on the gnocl::pbfilter package begins!

Now that release 0.9.95 is out there for everyone to download, it’s time to turn my attention again to the completion of the image manipulation module. After an hour or so’s work I’ve got the basic package together. This has included moving over all the exploratory code that was reported earlier in this blog.

It has been a useful activity as it’s been some time since I worked on any package outside of the main Gnocl core code. What it did reveal was that the movement into gnocl.h of the various widget parameters structure made global for the purposes of implementing the support of the glade/builder UI xml files would now throw up compilation errors for gnocl dependant packages. This potential problem has been fixed by moving these declarations into their own header file, gnoclparams.h, and then including within those widget modules which use the structures it declares.

Gnocl 0.9.95 Released -At Last!

After much dashing around and last minute checks, I’ve finally managed to announce the release of 0.9.95. Let’s hope it attracts some interest!

Update some docs, minor fixes and a few other things that need to be done...

Spent a few more hours today on getting the release of Gnocl ready.
Still doing the job. WIll pack and upload before the day is through!

Getting ready to upload...

The past few days have been a little quiet on the Gnocl development front. Had to divert most of my energies to other projects; y’know, those sort of things which take higher precedence over OpenSource software development – family, work and gardening! Having said that however, today I’ll spend some time on wrapping up the current version of Gnocl and upload it to SourceForge. At lot of work has been done in the past few months, and there is still quite a bit more to document.