Satish's Blog

this actually has been rolling in my mind for a long time now , how would it be to design an app, which would make it a click's work to plan for the design and coding of a project or a software application, which would produce text like what i have posted below for the 'diff'ing and'patch'ing application , and along with that also the deadlines, and sort of provide the functionality for adding new goals and decisions dynamically, ? that would be great , i guess, a lot more thinking and discussion has to go in there, but it would be awesome and highly customizable !!!

i have decided to write a small GUI based app for taking out the diff of two files and applying patches to files, well i don have any idea how the actual programs work , but i have decided to write new algos for them , and a little innovation with the GUI , ... the plan goes as follows, : ------> creation of own diff and patch algorithms | |___--> better diff algo proposal # char wise diff if line length > 256 (set arbitrarily) ------> designing the GUI through manual programming ( no GLADE ) | |___--> components of the GUI # textarea for displaying the diff output # input and output file selector # file selector for patch operations # selector between methods patch/diff ------> writing the appropriate configure scripts for the gui code, as the autoscan may not always generate the appropriate scripts well actually , i was inspired by meld, but actual...

it was a long time ago that i had tried a simple hello world program from 'Beggining' Linux programming and failed badly , going by the difficulty i had in figuring out the flags to be given to gcc and and the directories and libs i had to explicitly include, but i hvae atlast found some success, well it is not a achievement as all i did was follow the same book and do what it said , but i feel relieved , it has been my dream to develop a GUI based software for managing 'small business' . Which can be easily configured and used for any sort of 'small ' range business, as all of them have the same basic backdrop. So finally i have started working with GtkObjects and GtkWidgets, so it should not be long before i am grinding out some really good stuff !!! Everytime we compile a program using the Gtk+ packages, we have to include some metadata about the include directories containing the headers, the directories to find the libraries in and all such stuff, it is qu...