Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Jean, I was trying to sliding too long Labels for the past few days. I was able to learn many new things about painting methods and still interested to proceed with this project. After figuring out how the partial slides of current tables have been implemented (using the method void

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Dear Hashini, On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Hashini Senaratne hashz1...@gmail.com wrote: Also, I like to apply for this GSoC project. I went through the student application template that LyX has suggested. I like if I can submit it as a Wiki where I can update and modify with accordance to

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Liviu, Liviu Andronic landronimirc at gmail.com writes: Dear Hashini, I think best would be to wait for Google Melange to open its applications system to students, in about a day or so. Then you could start preparing a first draft of your application there, and mentors could give you

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Jean, I was trying to sliding too long Labels for the past few days. I was able to learn many new things about painting methods and still interested to proceed with this project. After figuring out how the partial slides of current tables have been implemented (using the method void

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Dear Hashini, On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Hashini Senaratne wrote: > Also, I like to apply for this GSoC project. I went through the student > application template that LyX has suggested. I like if I can submit it as a > Wiki where I can update and modify with

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Liviu, Liviu Andronic gmail.com> writes: > > Dear Hashini, > I think best would be to wait for Google Melange to open its > applications system to students, in about a day or so. Then you could > start preparing a first draft of your application there, and mentors > could give you

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

14/04/2013 15:53, Hashini Senaratne: Thank you for the explanation. That makes more sense for me. I think I fully understood your point 1 and 3. I want to make sure if I correctly understood what you have mentioned under point 2. when the test cursor is moved to a place where it would not be

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

14/04/2013 15:53, Hashini Senaratne: Thank you for the explanation. That makes more sense for me. I think I fully understood your point 1 and 3. I want to make sure if I correctly understood what you have mentioned under point 2. "when the test cursor is moved to a place where it would not be

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Scott Kostyshak skostysh at lyx.org writes: OK, sounds good. I will go through my disorganized dump of notes this weekend and write up some descriptions of minor bugs. I'm sure I have something related to UI, but not sure how related to the part of UI you will need for the project. Then you

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgouttes at lyx.org writes: Could you please explain it to me? It would look like: 1/ implement the function slide_row_by__amount_xx (I do not know in what unit the xx should be). 2/ when the test cursor is moved to a place where it would not be visible, move

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Scott Kostyshak lyx.org> writes: > OK, sounds good. I will go through my disorganized dump of notes this > weekend and write up some descriptions of minor bugs. I'm sure I have > something related to UI, but not sure how related to the part of UI > you will need for the project. Then you can see

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lyx.org> writes: > > Could you please explain it to me? > > It would look like: > > 1/ implement the function slide_row_by__amount_xx (I do not know in what > unit the xx should be). > > 2/ when the test cursor is moved to a place where it would not be > visible, move a

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

12/04/2013 03:38, Cyrille Artho: If possible, I would favor reusing existing UI elements as much as possible (which probably means a Qt scroll bar). The reason for this is that a user instantly knows what to expect, and that the elements will have a look and feel that corresponds to the target

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

11/04/2013 17:15, Hashini Senaratne: Today I installed QT4 dev tools and QT4 designer. But when I tried to open the file /lib/ui/default.ui it gave an error: The file /lib/ui/default.ui is not a valid Designer UI file. Do you want to update the file location or generate a new form? If you have

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Scott, Scott Kostyshak skostysh at lyx.org writes: Commenting out lines of code sounds like a great technique for learning. I had never thought about that! That was because I am new to this and could not identified specific places with related code. I will promise you that I will improve

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Jean, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgouttes at lyx.org writes: If we are going to implement the buttons, I think we need to indent a slight amount horizontally for one click? Is that the same idea that had in your mind? If the click on this button, shows us the end (edge) of the object,

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Le 12/04/2013 17:47, Hashini Senaratne a écrit : I also thought before implement moving for several rows, we should start with a single row. You have mentioned that 'move the row when the cursor moves'. What I understood was, first we are going to try to move a row. But did you meant that the

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Hashini Senaratne hashz1...@gmail.com wrote: Scott Kostyshak skostysh at lyx.org writes: Yes, it will probably take a lot of time. I think that doing whatever is the most fun/ least frustrating to get to know the code is the best. That could mean trying to

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

12/04/2013 03:38, Cyrille Artho: If possible, I would favor reusing existing UI elements as much as possible (which probably means a Qt scroll bar). The reason for this is that a user instantly knows what to expect, and that the elements will have a look and feel that corresponds to the target

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

11/04/2013 17:15, Hashini Senaratne: Today I installed QT4 dev tools and QT4 designer. But when I tried to open the file /lib/ui/default.ui it gave an error: "The file /lib/ui/default.ui is not a valid Designer UI file. Do you want to update the file location or generate a new form?" If you have

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Scott, Scott Kostyshak lyx.org> writes: > Commenting out lines of code sounds like a great technique for > learning. I had never thought about that! That was because I am new to this and could not identified specific places with related code. I will promise you that I will improve on

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Jean, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lyx.org> writes: > > If we are going to implement the buttons, I think we need to indent a slight > > amount horizontally for one click? Is that the same idea that had in your > > mind? If the click on this button, shows us the end (edge) of the object, > > that

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Le 12/04/2013 17:47, Hashini Senaratne a écrit : I also thought before implement moving for several rows, we should start with a single row. You have mentioned that 'move the row when the cursor moves'. What I understood was, first we are going to try to move a row. But did you meant that the

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Hashini Senaratne wrote: > Scott Kostyshak lyx.org> writes: >> Yes, it will probably take a lot of time. I think that doing whatever >> is the most fun/ least frustrating to get to know the code is the >> best. That could mean trying to

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

10/04/2013 13:19, Hashini Senaratne: * Inserting a real scrollbar (that is, a Qt widget) in our workarea may prove difficult. Moreover the scrollbar would take room in the documents. Alternatives include: Is not it possible to implement to have a horizontal scrollbar (real scrollbar) like the

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Jean, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgouttes at lyx.org writes: I am not competent at all when it comes to Qt, but I suuspect that a lot of work will be needed in our WorkArea widget to have it aware that it contains other Qt widgets (the scrollbars) and pass the needed messages (process

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Scott, Scott Kostyshak skostysh at lyx.org writes: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Hashini Senaratne hashz1990 at gmail.com wrote: If you have some time could you please give me some more details about autotools that you are aware of, later. I do not want to keep on disturbing

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Hello again, Hashini Senaratne hashz1990 at gmail.com writes: Today I installed QT4 development tools and the QT4 designer. I could open all the files in /src/frontends/qt4/ui by using the designer. But I failed to open two files using qt4 designer;

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Hashini Senaratne wrote: I noticed that the two files that I have mentioned are not in qt4 format after opening them as text. What is the use of them and why they are in .ui format? According to my thoughts, the main layout of the LyX document Bingo, they are no way related to QT and I suspect

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Hashini Senaratne hashz1...@gmail.com wrote: I tried to go through the source code and tried to figure out how the vertical scrollbar has been implemented. I think this would be a bit difficult task, until I get familiar with the code. I was able to disable

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

* have buttons with arrows in the left and right margin or (since these margins are currently thin) maybe buttons that appear as needed when the mouse if over the problematic inset. I think this option will not much user-friendly. Well, it requires to move the mouse to some particular

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

10/04/2013 13:19, Hashini Senaratne: * Inserting a real scrollbar (that is, a Qt widget) in our workarea may prove difficult. Moreover the scrollbar would take room in the documents. Alternatives include: Is not it possible to implement to have a horizontal scrollbar (real scrollbar) like the

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Jean, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lyx.org> writes: > I am not competent at all when it comes to Qt, but I suuspect that a lot > of work will be needed in our WorkArea widget to have it aware that it > contains other Qt widgets (the scrollbars) and pass the needed messages > (process paint

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Scott, Scott Kostyshak lyx.org> writes: > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Hashini Senaratne gmail.com> wrote: > > If you have some time could you please give me some more details about > > autotools that you are aware of, later. I do not want to keep on disturbing > > you. So, I

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Hello again, Hashini Senaratne gmail.com> writes: > Today I installed QT4 development tools and the QT4 designer. I could open > all the files in /src/frontends/qt4/ui by using the designer. But I failed > to open two files using qt4 designer; > /development/attic/lyxled/ui/MainWindowUi.ui >

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Hashini Senaratne wrote: > I noticed that the two files that I have mentioned are not in qt4 format > after opening them as text. What is the use of them and why they are in .ui > format? According to my thoughts, the main layout of the LyX document Bingo, they are no way related to QT and I

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Hashini Senaratne wrote: > I tried to go through the source code and tried to figure out how the > vertical scrollbar has been implemented. I think this would be a bit > difficult task, until I get familiar with the code. I was able to disable

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

* have buttons with arrows in the left and right margin or (since these margins are currently thin) maybe buttons that appear as needed when the mouse if over the problematic inset. I think this option will not much user-friendly. Well, it requires to move the mouse to some particular

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Scott, Thank you very much for the quick response. Scott Kostyshak skostysh at lyx.org writes: Glad to see that you are all set up. I also use Ubuntu. Note that there are two ways to build LyX -- with autotools and with CMake. I used 'make' command to compile the system and I will like

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Hi Hanshini, You actually identified another problem. The original proposal targets the LyX user interface, where a table or formula may be too wide. As I can see, in LyX if we print (/view as pdf) a document with a too wide table, the extra part is going to be cut out in the output. This will

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:12 AM, Hashini Senaratne hashz1...@gmail.com wrote: I used 'make' command to compile the system and I will like to learn about the both way. So I will do some search and get back to you if I fail after my attempts. Most devs use autotools so I don't know if you need

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Cyrille Artho c.ar...@aist.go.jp wrote: Hi Hanshini, You actually identified another problem. The original proposal targets the LyX user interface, where a table or formula may be too wide. As I can see, in LyX if we print (/view as pdf) a document with a too

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Cyrille, Cyrille Artho c.artho at aist.go.jp writes: Hi Hanshini, You actually identified another problem. The original proposal targets the LyX user interface, where a table or formula may be too wide. This is an issue with the resulting text (typeset by LaTeX). I think it is

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Hashini, Welcome to LyX! On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:38 AM, Hashini Senaratne hashz1...@gmail.com wrote: If possible, please introduce me some introductory bugs that are easy to start with and related to this project. The following is a bug rather unerlated to the original project

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Hi Hanshini, (probably my mails don't make it to the list directly as I'm writing from a different account) I think the width of elements in the output is a general issue that most users are aware of. Having visual feedback in LyX would be a nice enhancement of course. Still, I would not

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Cyrille Artho c.ar...@aist.go.jp wrote: Hi Hanshini, (probably my mails don't make it to the list directly as I'm writing from a different account) I think your messages get to the list. I think the width of elements in the output is a general issue that

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Thank you very much again. I was able to use CMake with your simple guidelines. Scott Kostyshak skostysh at lyx.org writes: Most devs use autotools so I don't know if you need to know how to use CMake but since you expressed interest, I'll give the steps. It is recommended to build it

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Liviu, Liviu Andronic landronimirc at gmail.com writes: The following is a bug rather unerlated to the original project proposal, but it's an 'easyfix': http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7790 . It already has some patches that need to be updated for current trunk. If you're looking for

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Hashini Senaratne hashz1...@gmail.com wrote: If you have some time could you please give me some more details about autotools that you are aware of, later. I do not want to keep on disturbing you. So, I prefer search by myself, before asking everything from you.

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

10/04/2013 07:38, Scott Kostyshak: On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Hashini Senaratne hashz1...@gmail.com wrote: As I can see, in LyX if we print (/view as pdf) a document with a too wide table, the extra part is going to be cut out in the output. This will happen even if a horizontal bar is

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

If you think about it, a table that is too wide is to wide. There is not much LyX can do about it. What LyX could do, though is to tell you about it using some visual markers obtained by parsing the LaTeX log file and looking for 'overfull \hbox' warnings. There is a LaTeX hack that one can use

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Jean, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgouttes at lyx.org writes: If you think about it, a table that is too wide is to wide. There is not much LyX can do about it. What LyX could do, though is to tell you about it using some visual markers obtained by parsing the LaTeX log file and looking

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Scott, Thank you very much for the quick response. >Scott Kostyshak lyx.org> writes: > Glad to see that you are all set up. I also use Ubuntu. Note that > there are two ways to build LyX -- with autotools and with CMake. I used 'make' command to compile the system and I will like to

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Hi Hanshini, You actually identified another problem. The original proposal targets the LyX user interface, where a table or formula may be too wide. As I can see, in LyX if we print (/view as pdf) a document with a too wide table, the extra part is going to be cut out in the output. This will

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:12 AM, Hashini Senaratne wrote: > I used 'make' command to compile the system and I will like to learn about > the both way. So I will do some search and get back to you if I fail after > my attempts. Most devs use autotools so I don't know if you

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Cyrille Artho wrote: > Hi Hanshini, > You actually identified another problem. The original proposal targets the > LyX user interface, where a table or formula may be too wide. > >> >> As I can see, in LyX if we print (/view as pdf) a document

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Cyrille, Cyrille Artho aist.go.jp> writes: > > Hi Hanshini, > You actually identified another problem. The original proposal targets the > LyX user interface, where a table or formula may be too wide. > This is an issue with the resulting text (typeset by LaTeX). I think it is >

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Hashini, Welcome to LyX! On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:38 AM, Hashini Senaratne wrote: > If possible, please introduce me some introductory bugs that are easy to > start with and related to this project. > The following is a bug rather unerlated to the original project

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Hi Hanshini, (probably my mails don't make it to the list directly as I'm writing from a different account) I think the width of elements in the output is a general issue that most users are aware of. Having visual feedback in LyX would be a nice enhancement of course. Still, I would not

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Cyrille Artho wrote: > Hi Hanshini, > (probably my mails don't make it to the list directly as I'm writing from a > different account) > I think your messages get to the list. > I think the width of elements in the output is a general issue

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Thank you very much again. I was able to use CMake with your simple guidelines. Scott Kostyshak lyx.org> writes: > Most devs use autotools so I don't know if you need to know how to use > CMake but since you expressed interest, I'll give the steps. It is > recommended to build it out-of-source,

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Liviu, Liviu Andronic gmail.com> writes: > The following is a bug rather unerlated to the original project > proposal, but it's an 'easyfix': http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7790 . > It already has some patches that need to be updated for current trunk. > > If you're looking for easy

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Hashini Senaratne wrote: > If you have some time could you please give me some more details about > autotools that you are aware of, later. I do not want to keep on disturbing > you. So, I prefer search by myself, before asking everything from

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

10/04/2013 07:38, Scott Kostyshak: On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Hashini Senaratne wrote: As I can see, in LyX if we print (/view as pdf) a document with a too wide table, the extra part is going to be cut out in the output. This will happen even if a horizontal bar is

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

If you think about it, a table that is too wide is to wide. There is not much LyX can do about it. What LyX could do, though is to tell you about it using some visual markers obtained by parsing the LaTeX log file and looking for 'overfull \hbox' warnings. There is a LaTeX hack that one can use

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Hello Jean, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lyx.org> writes: > If you think about it, a table that is too wide is to wide. There is not > much LyX can do about it. What LyX could do, though is to tell you about > it using some visual markers obtained by parsing the LaTeX log file and > looking for

Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

Hello all, This is regarding some problems that I came up with while trying to proceed with the mentioned project idea. Hope I can get some ideas and help from here. I am a Computer Science and Engineering undergraduate of University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I have the programming experience

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math and Some problems regarding the project

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Hashini Senaratne hashz1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, This is regarding some problems that I came up with while trying to proceed with the mentioned project idea. Hope I can get some ideas and help from here. Hi Hashini, you found the right place. I am

Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

Hello all, This is regarding some problems that I came up with while trying to proceed with the mentioned project idea. Hope I can get some ideas and help from here. I am a Computer Science and Engineering undergraduate of University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I have the programming experience

Re: Interested in GSOC Project: "Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math" and Some problems regarding the project

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Hashini Senaratne wrote: > Hello all, > > This is regarding some problems that I came up with while trying to proceed > with the mentioned project idea. Hope I can get some ideas and help from here. Hi Hashini, you found the right place. > I