[Ktechlab-devel] Getting there

[David Saxton]

On Monday 18 Jul 2005 11:48, Geoff wrote:
> I'm getting there now and have a few observations of ktechlab-0.2 on
> Gentoo-2005.0:
>
> 1. Can we have the flowchart checked for floating connectors before
> creating a microbe file. This has caught me out a few times where items are
> close together and seem connected when they are not.
>
Good idea.
>
> 2. Where "Display Directly" is chosen for "Convert to Microbe", have it
> output to a single fixed buffer, instead of creating Untitled1, Untitled2
> etc.
>
Hmm...this would violate the principle of least surprise (namely the user 
might want to keep the old output, instead of having it overwritten).

Once the Output dialog is fixed to remember the settings for the given file, 
an alternative method for acheiving what you want to do is to output to a 
file, and then reload the file after outputting to it.
>
>  3. Have sizes of windows saved and restored. I'm always having to pull the
> bottom of the editor window down.
>
The size of the overall application window *should* be saved and restored.

The toolview (tabs around the side like the "Messages" tab) sizes are 
unfortunately not saved, and there's nothing I can do to change this; it us 
up to KMDI to save such sizes, which it fails to do. See this bug:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72371

There will be an improved KMDI interface with KDE 3.5; when this comes out, 
KTechlab will use it by default.

>
> 4. Project saving doesn't seem to work. If I create a new project, add a
> flowchart file to the project, then choose "Close Project" I always get a
> SIGSEGV crash.
>
Oh dear - this would be quite a major bug.

The project support has been suffering from bit rot since ktechlab 0.1, as I 
don't normally use it in normal workflow.

At least for the next release, project support should get a bit more care and 
attention; in particular, for use with tools such as sdcc.

For now though, there's nothing that can done about it :(

>
> And a question: When will flowcharting accept a pic type?
>
Good question.

The PICs supported is limited by what microbe supports (which isn't that 
many); and as microbe development has stagnated recently, I haven't updated 
the featureset of flowcharting for a while. I'll add increased PIC support to 
my TODO list.



Regards,
David Saxton