Re: [Qucs-devel] Qt4 Port progress: Sidebar filter and some slot implementations

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

Am Mi, 18.04.2007, 10:10, schrieb roucaries bastien:

Hello!

>> >      For this week I implemented a filter, which filters components
>> > based on name typed in line edit in sidebar.  This really helps to
>> > locate components at faster rate instead of navigating through all
>> > types of sources.
>> > Please do give me feedback about this feature!
>>
>> I will look at it.  Thanks.
>>
>> >        One good news. Ruso (or Martin) , friend of Lisandrop helped me
>> > by implementing slots corresponding to zoom and also some few other
>> > slots.
>>
>> Good to hear that. :-)
>>
>> > Oh yeah, theres one more big change. Hence forth we thought of using
>> > Qt's resource system to store icons in binary format in platform
>> > independent way. Ruso did that and I commited that too. You can have a
>> > look at this link for more info
>> > http://doc.trolltech.com/4.2/resources.html
>> >
>> > Please do give feedback.
>>
>> Actually I don't like the idea.  I don't see an advantage for now.  It's
>> not related to "porting Qucs" and also not a conceptional change.  With
>> the bitmaps as seperate files it is easier to change them even with the
>> application compiled and installed... Anyway, please don't feel
>> bothered.
>> If you really require the change you can leave it as is.
>
> Here I agree with Stephan. It will be better to keep the icons as files.

Thanks.

> It will be also better to describe each component in the gui by an xml
> file, that will include the number of port, the name of the component,
> the path to an icon file (preferably in vector graphics format) and a
> regexp (or a printf like string) for creating the simulation file.
> If we could do this, qucs core and qucs will be fully decoupled, ie we
> do not need to recompile qucs-gui if we add a new components to
> qucs-core. But I suppose it is a mid term goal.

This I also had it mind already.  It would be something like the
description of library elements.  There is already a Symbol, Ports and
Netlist description contained...  Also it would be a step towards
loadable add-on modules for components which is (I agree) a mid term
goal.  But also not related to actually porting Qucs to Qt4.

Cheers, Stefan.