Thread: tutorial for starting development
Hi I wanted to write some code in pgAdminIII, just to learn the ropes, but I am not sure where to start. Does pgAdminIII have a how-to kind of document for newbies to its dev environment? I have compiled and linked the code and have a debug executable. I am using VS.Net on WinXP For a start, how do you edit the widgets, is there a form designer? Thanks Sami
sami jan a écrit : > I wanted to write some code in pgAdminIII, just to learn the ropes, > but I am not sure where to start. Does pgAdminIII have a how-to kind > of document for newbies to its dev environment? > Not really. This link, http://www.pgadmin.org/download/source.php, documents how to compile it. And this is the roadmap : http://www.pgadmin.org/development/roadmap.php , and todo list : http://www.pgadmin.org/development/todo.php . > I have compiled and linked the code and have a debug executable. I am > using VS.Net on WinXP > > For a start, how do you edit the widgets, is there a form designer? > I don't know of any form designer. You need to edit the xrc file manually and I think you have to execute the embed-xrc.bat batch file after your changes. Regards. -- Guillaume. <!-- http://abs.traduc.org/ http://lfs.traduc.org/ http://docs.postgresqlfr.org/ -->
Guillaume Lelarge wrote: > sami jan a écrit : >> For a start, how do you edit the widgets, is there a form designer? >> > > I don't know of any form designer. You need to edit the xrc file > manually and I think you have to execute the embed-xrc.bat batch file > after your changes. I use XRCeD to hack forms. It's far from perfect, but is a lot easier that manual hacking when you get used to its quirks. I run the CVs version so I can just 'cvs update' every now and again to get the latest set of bug fixes. You still need to run embed-xrc after making any changes. Regards, Dave
Dave Page a écrit : > Guillaume Lelarge wrote: >> sami jan a écrit : >>> For a start, how do you edit the widgets, is there a form designer? >>> >> >> I don't know of any form designer. You need to edit the xrc file >> manually and I think you have to execute the embed-xrc.bat batch file >> after your changes. > > I use XRCeD to hack forms. It's far from perfect, but is a lot easier > that manual hacking when you get used to its quirks. I run the CVs > version so I can just 'cvs update' every now and again to get the latest > set of bug fixes. > Great to know. I'll try it ASAP but I wonder how it can handle our custom widgets ? > You still need to run embed-xrc after making any changes. > I had some problems yesterday with xrc files. I changed dlgTable.xrc, ran embed-xrc, make, make install... and nothing. I didn't see any of my changes. I finally found that I had to manually copy the dlgTable.xrc file in the installation directory to get it working. If i'm correct, we need XRC files on linux and they are embedded with the binary on the windows platform. I wonder why "make install" didn't install my customized copy of the dlgTable.xrc file. FYI, I'm working on adding fill factor support. Oh and I found a SIGSEG on the options window. I need to investigate this. Regards. -- Guillaume. <!-- http://abs.traduc.org/ http://lfs.traduc.org/ http://docs.postgresqlfr.org/ -->
Guillaume Lelarge wrote: > > Great to know. I'll try it ASAP but I wonder how it can handle our > custom widgets ? It depends how they are used. In some cases it bleats about them, but usually works well enough. >> You still need to run embed-xrc after making any changes. >> > > I had some problems yesterday with xrc files. I changed dlgTable.xrc, > ran embed-xrc, make, make install... and nothing. I didn't see any of my > changes. I finally found that I had to manually copy the dlgTable.xrc > file in the installation directory to get it working. If i'm correct, we > need XRC files on linux and they are embedded with the binary on the > windows platform. I wonder why "make install" didn't install my > customized copy of the dlgTable.xrc file. The rules are the same on Windows, Mac and *nix. Debug builds use the XRC files, release builds use xrcDialogs.cpp. We don't even install the xrc files with release builds any more (I wonder if that might have confused things on your machine?) > FYI, I'm working on adding fill factor support. Cool - need to be quick though - I hope to go to beta in a week or so! > Oh and I found a SIGSEG on the options window. I need to investigate this. :-s Regards, Dave.