[Qucs-devel] Continuing qt4 port

[Gopala K. <kri...@gm...>]

I'll be finishing my last exam tomorrow. I'll get back to porting from
tomorrow :) This vacation i'll try to be more productive and try to
finish the simulator so that we can think of making eda tools soon.

My todo's are
*) Stabilize all the classes so far in port.
*) Add undo/redo support using qt4-command framework.
*) Implement all functionality necessary for schematic view
*) Add symbol mode
*) Implement menu,toolbar actions.
*) Simulator,tools integration
*) Graphs/plotting (i've some clarifications here for changes from qt3 version)
*) Miscelaneous (eg key binding configuration)
*) Reorganizing actions in proper menus and toolbars.
*) Performance tweaking
*) cmake support

After the above, the following will be considered after thorough
discussion and experiments
*) Completely XML and svg based components
*) Experiment with plugins for plotting(eg plugin to integrate
gnuplot, plugin to use qwt widgets)
*) Add basic scripting support.
*) EDA thoughts can continue from here ;)

Here are some clarifications needed (with random priorities).
1) Is the tab based schematic views enough or should we also support
multiple top level windows(as in qt4 designer) and mdi windows ?
2) Should the diagrams(or better graphs) be embeddable in schematic
window(.sch) or should it be restricted to dpl files ?
3) Should qucs-qt4 be compatible with qt4.2 ? The main reason for this
is the xml stream classes introduced in qt4.3 are very convinient and
i want to simplify my task if we dont support qt4.2.
4) Do you have any objections if i convert all hard coded dialog boxes
to ui files (designer files) ?
5) Should the components be moved grid wise or allowed to be moved freely ?
6) Can the new xml format for saving schematic files be made default/standard ?

I have couple of requests for everyone on list.
I may ask lots of questions/doubts. Please help me clarify them
Secondly try the port whenever you can and give me your inputs(be free) :)

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Cheers,
Gopala Krishna A