Re: [Qucs-devel] qucs qt4 port progress

[Stefan J. <st...@gr...>]

Am So, 15.10.2006, 12:53, schrieb Gopala Krishna:

> Hello guys,

Hi Gopala,

>   I have finished porting qucs-help, qucs-transcalc, qucs-attenuator
> and qucs-filter to Qt4. Now i am planning to start with qucs schematic
> application. This will involves a major re-write since I've decided to
> use QGraphicsView framework which comes with qt4.2 (was released on
> 4th october) to draw the schematics.

Sounds good.  Thanks for all your efforts so far!

> Therefore I thought I can do the
> following improvements to the design of qucs.
>
>                Firstly, I plan to adopt plugin structure to qucs. This
> has really many advantages. Qt4 has really made it easy to adopt
> plugin structure. In this case the above mentioned qucs tools will be
> made into plugins.
> The main advantage is many users will be able to write plugins that
> simplifies usage of qucs. For example some one could come up with
> advanced plotting tool. He need not go through the entire code at all.
> This greatly simplifies his work. Or he may write some interface
> plugin that convert the plot file structure to that of plot
> application he prefers.
> The second example could be that an advanced user can write a plugin
> to add specially improved component/model to suit him.

It is not very likely that anyone else than yourself, Michael and me
is going to modify anything in the Qucs GUI.  That is why the plugin-
thingie isn't that necessary.

Is the plotting plugin the only example you have in mind?  Or even others?

>                Secondly, i have plans to make some changes to user
> interface and make it more intutive.

I feel like it is intuitive already.

> I plan to provide interface to
> resemble ideal theme of kde apps(default in kdevelop)

Please don't mix Qt and KDE. :-)

> I also want to make qucs completely customizable.

What exactly do you mean?

> i have ideas to add
> progress bar to statusbar

Not that necessary I think, but if you want to...

> and maintain responsiveness when qucsator is
> running in background.

I think it is responsive.  You can start another simulation, modify
schematics, etc. when a simulation runs.  What do you mean?

>               So please guys, give me your opinions about this. Also
> please do give some IDEAS about any feature you feel like to be added
> to qucs so that i can plan for those too.
> Thanks for your response in advance.

Currently I just have this layout editor in mind...

Cheers, Stefan.