It’s been quite unproductive week. The DualView is pretty much a mess at the moment and I’ll have to take few steps backwards and rewrite some code. The problem lies in the layout system which is designed to handle only one pane and a single active tab. So I’ll need to do some changes on how layouts are saved and loaded. As a side product to those changes, I will be adding options to lock toolbars and panels.
Another problem I’ve been having is my motivation level which was pretty much zero this week. Due to my programming style, pretty much all ideas and how things should work exist only in my head. If the motivation level is high, that vision is clear. This week however, it’s been just a blur. To boost up motivation, I started to play around with QuickView related stuff. Here’s the result:
Basically, I coded a framework for plugins that can be used to add more viewers in QuickView. It works very nicely and I’m looking forward to implement it in CE. This has indeed boosted my motivation level so I’m hoping to finish the work with DualView by the end of next week.
Don’t worry Marko,
I was expecting that the dual pane feature would have give you troubles… it’s a milestone new feature and deserves time to be completed.
I’m very impressed about the new plugin viewer framework…
i would like very much to open pdf files and html inside CE.
Hi Marko,
I found out about the CE about a week ago and have been playing with ver 0.91.
I see a lot of potential, but I found some bugs that make this program not 100% functional for day to day work.
I’ll be following your progress closely and I’ll start advertising CE to my friends and coworkers as soon as I’ll see that it reached the appropriate level.
Great work!!
p.s. where can I report bugs?
hi vvlad
welcome on board, let me answer you in place of Marko.
Please register to the users forum:
http://www.cubicreality.com/forum/
and post bug-reports in this section:
http://www.cubicreality.com/forum/index.php/board,2.0.html
Motivation. Oh, we all know that beast!
My issue is not motivation to code – I usually can’t rest until the ideas are out of my head and through Emacs. I tend to write code, then it takes me days to motivate to test. We all have our demons, I guess. I absolutely understand!
Yeah, I know what you mean. I get my kicks on learning new technologies. After I’ve learned the skills to make an app using some new technology, I have no more motivation left to actually code it. I have tons of prototypes for all sort of different apps like ftp/scp/ssh browsers, irc/email clients, video/audio players, image/text editors, database related apps…. etc.
All those apps are meant to be in the Cubic family but so far, only CE has made it all the way.
so how’s going this week?
productive or not?
Worse than last week
I’m going to take rest of this month off. I’ll write notes about it tomorrow.
you deserve holidays.