Blog Archives

Error Processing

Since the original post, I’ve worked on making Froggum handle errors. In the process, I’ve made a few realizations:

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Feature Design: Applied Transforms

Error reporting is not done. It is turning out to be more complicated than I expected, and needs further design before I finish it. In the meantime, I will be moving on to the other, last major feature of Frogum 0.3: applied transforms.

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Adventures in Theming

During the last four years of Froggum’s development, there have been several pauses. Some were due to school or other responsibilities taking priority, some were due to ambiguous specifications, and some were due to really annoying bugs.

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New Feature: Error Reporting

I’m finally reasonably satisfied with the status bar. It might change again before the release, and there are probably bugs left, but it’s merged now and I need to move on.

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Redesigning the Status Bar - Again

I recently had the opportunity to use Froggum to design an icon, as it was designed to do. While doing so, I made some observations.

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Minor Feature Redesign: Handles

Last time (now almost a year ago), I planned a major feature, split into three implementation steps: add Handles, port to Gtk4, implement the actual feature.

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Major Feature: Status Bar

Frequently, I want to know exactly where a point is. I also often know exactly where a point should be and want to put it there. This was particularly noticeable while making the eyes on the Froggum icons, which needed to be symmetrical. I had to count spaces, which is not the easiest thing to do.

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Polygons, Polylines, and Conversions

It turns out I forgot about two “minor” feature I should add before the two major features I mentioned in the previous post.

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Feature Design: Rounded Rectangles

This was postponed from the Basic Shapes feature becuase it needed custom context menu options for toggling rounding. Hopefully, this will complete all the SVG implementation for release 0.3, and the remainder will be editor improvements. (I still have two major features I want to add but haven’t started yet.)

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Feature Design: Clicking

There a few features from the previous design post that did not make it into the pull request. These include:

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Feature Design: Basic Shapes

Transforms and their controls have been added to Froggum. I do plan to add more to them in Release 0.3, but that will come later. The next feature to add is the rest of the basic shapes. I added circles along with groups, but there are several others that should be included as well.

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Feature Design: Transforms

Now that groups have been added, the next major feature I’ll be adding to Froggum is transforms. This is a brief description of what I plan to add for this; they will not necessarily be added in the same way as presented here.

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Introduction

Welcome to a new blog! I plan to post here about every week, mostly about software development and my experiences with it. Other topics could include plays, poetry, or anything else I feel like writing that day.

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