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He is 4th year student of Gdansk University of Technology in the field of Computer Science. He has some expierence with professional work. He is passionate about parallel computing and great enthusiast for Linux and open source. Currently, he is involved in the development and improvements in the GUI of ASCEND.

Contact Email: adrbogus1@student.pg.gda.pl

Subversion account: adrian:/

GSoC 2015 Project : GUI Improvements

Generally GUI migration from Gtk2 to Gtk3 with some bugs fixing. Then implementation of an installer for the Windows users, which bundles and installs necessary libraries. Finally addition of some functionalities to GUI.

Important information

New ASCEND GUI uses Gtk3 library, so some dependencies have to support this version of Gtk.
If you want to use Canvas GUI you need to have gaphas library (gtk3 branch), which is available on github.com. You can use this command to download it automatically:

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a4c, abap, abc, abnf, actionscript, ada, agda, alan, algol, ampl, amtrix, applescript, arc, arm, as400cl, ascend, asciidoc, asp, aspect, assembler, ats, autohotkey, autoit, avenue, awk, ballerina, bat, bbcode, bcpl, bibtex, biferno, bison, blitzbasic, bms, bnf, boo, c, carbon, ceylon, charmm, chill, chpl, clean, clearbasic, clipper, clojure, clp, cmake, cobol, coffeescript, coldfusion, conf, cpp2, critic, crk, crystal, cs_block_regex, csharp, css, d, dart, delphi, diff, dockerfile, dts, dylan, ebnf, ebnf2, eiffel, elixir, elm, email, erb, erlang, euphoria, exapunks, excel, express, factor, fame, fasm, felix, fish, fortran77, fortran90, frink, fsharp, fstab, fx, gambas, gdb, gdscript, go, graphviz, haml, hare, haskell, haxe, hcl, html, httpd, hugo, icon, idl, idlang, inc_luatex, informix, ini, innosetup, interlis, io, jam, jasmin, java, javascript, js_regex, json, jsp, jsx, julia, kotlin, ldif, less, lhs, lilypond, limbo, lindenscript, lisp, logtalk, lotos, lotus, lua, luban, makefile, maple, markdown, matlab, maya, mercury, meson, miranda, mod2, mod3, modelica, moon, ms, msl, mssql, mxml, n3, nasal, nbc, nemerle, netrexx, nginx, nice, nim, nix, nsis, nxc, oberon, objc, ocaml, octave, oorexx, org, os, oz, paradox, pas, pdf, perl, php, pike, pl1, plperl, plpython, pltcl, po, polygen, pony, pov, powershell, pro, progress, ps, psl, pure, purebasic, purescript, pyrex, python, q, qmake, qml, qu, r, rebol, rego, rexx, rnc, rpg, rpl, rst, ruby, rust, s, sam, sas, scad, scala, scilab, scss, shellscript, slim, small, smalltalk, sml, snmp, snobol, solidity, spec, spn, sql, squirrel, styl, svg, swift, sybase, tcl, tcsh, terraform, tex, toml, tsql, tsx, ttcn3, txt, typescript, upc, vala, vb, verilog, vhd, vimscript, vue, wat, whiley, wren, xml, xpp, yaiff, yaml, yaml_ansible, yang, zig, znn

Then you should copy gaphastmp/gaphas directory either to canvas directory or to python site-packages (usually: /usr/lib/python2.*/site-packages).

General plan

Till mid-term (3rd July 2015):

complete working port to GTK3, including canvas GUI (completed)
- port canvas GUI to GTK3 (completed)
Firstly found all files which should be change. Then tried to port all of them file by file (using pygi-convert.sh, knowledge of pygtk and of course internet). Next tested GUI after every relevant change. Finally performed sanity testing on all changed widgets.
- test main GUI and fix bugs (completed)
- fork gaphas gtk3 branch and fix bugs (completed)
I forked gaphas from https://github.com/amolenaar/gaphas, then fixed bugs and sent pull request, which was merged with origin.
- install a few virtual machines (completed)
Installed Fedora 20 32bit with Kde, Debian 7 32bit with Gnome 2 and Ubuntu 14.04 32bit with Unity on VirtualBox
- test Ascend using them (completed)
On every machine I downloaded Ascend, built it and then tested all canvas features canvas from its menus.
windows installer based on GTK3, tested and working on a clean Windows VM (completed)
- create installers from trunk code (completed)
Firstly I created 32 bit installer, as it looked simpler. When this was done, 64bit installer wasn't a problem. I used these pages: http://ascend4.org/Setting_up_a_MinGW-w64_build_environment and http://ascend4.org/Building_ASCEND_for_64-bit_Windows, but of course I had to resolve many problems e.g with mingw32 compiler, lyx for Windows, threading mode etc.
- create 32bit Ascend installer with new GUI (completed)
I cloned my repository and built installer using scons. I did a lot of changes in nsis files in order to customize installer to new requirements. I removed old urls, old dependencies checking and installing, added section involving Canvas GUI, added new dependencies checking and installing.
- create 64bit Ascend installer with new GUI (completed)

Ran the same environment in 64bit mode and built installer.

- create all needed python dependencies' installers (PyGI, PyGobject, PyCairo, Pango etc.) (completed)

I downloaded installer from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pygobjectwin32/files/ and removed some parts from it. More information how to do this, here: http://ascend4.org/Creating_slim_PyGI_installer_for_Windows

- create Gaphas installer with its dependencies (completed)

I took code from https://github.com and https://pypi.python.org/pypi and then run this command: 'python setup.py bdist_wininst', which produces binary Windows installer.

- install Windows 32bit and 64bit as virtual machines (completed)
- test Ascend on these vms (completed)
Generally installed Ascend on clear vm. Installer downloaded and installed all dependencies and Ascend worked.
improved tree-view in main GUI: (in progress)
- multi-selection of variables to 'observe' (completed)
- better handling of keyboard navigation and value input (not started)
- menu option to show/hide different instance types (in progress)
- improve rendering of events, whens, conditionals. (not started)
- dialog boxes for not-yet-supported instance types (not started)

Till full term (28th August 2015):

full support for live plotting during solution of dynamic models (not started)
improved line-routing for the canvas GUI (not started)
redesign solver/integrator APIs for better handling of user interrupts (not started)
substantial progress on associated bug-fixed as agreed in weekly meetings (not started)
windows installers using msys2 (optional) (not started)

Timeline for task completion

1st April 2015 - 3rd May 2015

Major points describing weeks' work

Ported Canvas GUI to Gtk3

Fixed bugs

Fixed properties displaying after model running
Fixed context menu displaying issue
Fixed context menu instance wrong tab displaying issue
Fixed context menu tool issue
Fixed method entry issue
Fixed zoom issue
Fixed solver status without parent issue
Fixed instance showing after run issue
Fixed canvas saving issue
Fixed blockproperties window issue
Fixed transient parent for about dialog issue
Fixed transient parent for canvasproperties issue
Fixed export svg dialog transient parent issue
Fixed KeyError in otank dictionary issue
Fixed selected item status issue
Fixed no icons issue
Fixed disappearing menu issue, removed unecessary multiple definitions of toolbar
Fixed adjustments issue

4th May 2015 - 10th May 2015