Subject: Re: patch: do-again for Background Checks patch
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Jul 26 2000 - 02:51:22 CDT
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Tim LaDuca wrote:
>
> After looking at this patch and thinking about the sheer size of the code, I'm
> wondering... is all of AbiWord hand coded? Are there any graphical or
> other tools you guys use to make sense of all this? Or does this stuff basically become
> like a second language after a while? Are you able to use
> Glade(under Linux) for any of this?
>
> /TimL
>
> Some day, I swear, I will make sense of all of this! :-)
>
We (I) use glade to do initial designs of the GUI layout for a dialog in
unix.
After that I tweak and change the code like crazy. I think others do
something similar. You can be sure that 99.9% of the code in abi has been
handed crafted by a human. It is the only way to get good results.
The GUI is only a very small and rather easy part of the code in abi.
However it is fundamentally understandable. Start small, in a corner of
the code and work your way in.
Cheers
Martin
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