Hey @Douglas
A recent CS grad from Missippi State wants to join the dev team. What issue do you think would be a good place to start? He hasn’t joined the forum yet but he’s been added to the repo. He’s currently setting up his Qt environment.
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Let me take a look at the existing issues. Need to find one(s) that are not so spread over the whole app - like so much of the tools. After 5+ years of reading the code there’s things RT did that I’m still trying to unravel… like the Union tool. Also need to avoid conflicting with what I may currently be working on - which is why being on the forums would be important.
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Here’s a few issues that one can get their feet wet… increasing in complexity:
#144 Improve the Gender list in measurement files. Probably involves updating the schema. Was actually the 1st thing I did with my own fork years ago… just never added it to Seamly. There was some discussion here on the forums, but I think we pretty much decided on Github → issue what to do.
#60 Show progress bar while opening pattern file. Mainly work in the mainwindow class with QProgressBar. Not much to discuss other than where to place it… Status bar?
#74 Add design grid. Get’s into the graphics scene and view… probably would want some preferences. I’d add a “ruler” to the grid as they kinda of go together. Pretty good challenge. Could use LibreCAD and / or QCad for reference. Probably want to have some discussion here.
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Yeah he’s super nice, and I’ll check with him about joining the forum so he can join this thread.
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Here’s another issue that just presented itself… not on Github as an issue yet, but would be helpful and easy to resolve. The Critical Error dialog goes off screen when there’s a long contents list. Should stay on sceen and be scrollable if neccessary.
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This last issue may require some understanding of Qt widgets, is this correct?
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ANY issue is going to require understanding of widgets … if you see it, it’s a widget… or an object - which are widgets with signals and slots.
The last one is easy… just beed to adjust the proprties of the dialog. It’s probably done programmatically, rather than using a ui form, in which case you should use Creator to edit the form as it’s a nightmare trying to edit ui XML directly. Which sonetimes is unavoidable if there are conflicts to resolve when merging some PR,s with ui changes.
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Super. He says he’ll be available this weekend.
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