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Yes, I know, it’s been a while since my last post, and today, too, I cannot say so much about the code: the open dialog is on its way, and a good milestone in the project is just behind the corner, but it’s exam session here at Politecnico and it’s been hard to find some good time to code in the last two weeks…

Anyway, tomorrow I’ll have another exam, and the last of the summer session is waiting for me on the 20th, and then it will be only SoC! And I promise to achieve that milestone next week, so expect a screencast coming, stay tuned!

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Save dialog 1.1

New screenshot, old screenshot: the dialog you can see here is almost the same as before, except that it now shows some recent annotations added to previously saved files, and a few suggestions have been loaded, thanks to the new shining Scribo plugin (by Sebastian Trueg) and to the OpenCalais public services (for those you will need an API key, after a free registration to their site, but anyway a nice popup will inform you of this, when you will try to use it for the first time).

In that particular scene, I was saving lyrics from the song “Ordinary people” by Neil Young, and OC pointed out a few related terms, like the Las Vegas city written in the text, and others.

Ok, not so much work (on my side) this week, but past weekend with another public election (and me working for it) and a presentation made on tuesday for a university course haven’t left so much time for working on this…

Anyway, I have also made a little roadmap from now to the end of the GSoC (the BIG deadline), so the next important step will be a working load dialog (besides some little work on a couple of pseudo-bugs), so there will be a starting point for thinking about interaction with the user and UI.

Last but not least, my Commander-In-Chief already blogged about the project on which Sebastian Faubel is working, and some ideas are very interesting, like for example a template-based filesystem tree for giving files a good place in which they can be saved (and browsed traditionally later).

So, stay tuned!

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Save dialog v1

Does this remember you something? The answer, of course, is yes, and I can tell you what is: the draft I published here a few weeks ago. The difference? It’s that now that dialog is able to save files.

Ok, UI may suck, but frankly that was not the purpose, the purpose was to have a functioning backend, so the engine can (hopefully) produce some suggestions based on the text written in the notepad, the user himself can add new tags with a line edit field, and in the end, with a label and a comment, a text file will be saved into ~/Nepomuk/PlainTetxtDocument/label (so please, add a label). This directory is created and the full path is given to the caller application.

The first idea is to split files based on types defined in NFO ontology;  things may get more complicated later on, but for these testing purposes that’s good enough. A doxygen configuration file is in place, and executing it you can get the API: for saving a file, you just need to pass a NFO url, as you can see in test 1 code, so the dialog itself will know what is the type of the document; later on, there will be the possibility to specify in a more detailed way a document subtype.

Next improvements: implementation details for suggestions and recent annotations, then a simple open dialog is the next step into development. The next weekend (usually my commit-and-publish moment) will be a little complicated because of elections, again, here in Italy, and I will be at the polling station (if wordreference.com does not lie, and this is the correct translation (it does not look as good as I thought)); anyway, stay tuned!

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