On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 3:42 PM elias <elias_0000_0...@yahoo.com> wrote:
as a newbie that i would like to explore pspp code
I have visual studio, and i am coding in python.
I don't know whether Visual Studio can compile PSPP.
However, i have
involved only in small programs. Not big ones like pspp. I found that
the gui can be tested through glade.
I think Glade can show the GUI, which is a very simple form of testing.
Most testing will need more than Glade (instead, it will be necessary
to run PSPP).
So, my question is as newbie:
a) To check even the slightest change in coding pspp must be compiled
and run as whole?
This is usually a good practice. It only takes a few minutes, or
even less on a fast machine.
b) usually, my programs are executed through visual studio. Is this
possible for pspp?
I don't know. I don't think any of the existing PSPP developers
use Visual Studio. It might take an expert with Visual Studio to
make it work. You can try it.
c) you guys do you have any discord server or something similar?
No. We used to have an IRC channel, but I think that it was retired.
It was not used much.
The mailing lists are the best way to talk to the developers.
d) i tried to run glade with a file from src/ui/gui/ that says "psppire
is not found"
What did you run?
e) so do you have some quick methods / commands that are useful to give
me to start to explore pspp as coder?
Can you already build and run PSPP? That is the first step.
5) How do you check things around pspp?
I don't know what this question is asking. To run the testsuite, I
use "make check".
6) i have install also gtk inspector and i can check the gui interactively.
OK.
7) I also read that small changes to gui is better to happen to xml
files than running glade. I tried to add the whole folder of psppire in
glade's preferences but again dont find it
The following required catalogs are unavailable: psppire by doing glade
barcharts.ui
I don't understand this error message either.
