GSoC India Delhi Meetup

So I’m a week late. Shoot me.

Well, 7 of the supposed 71 of us turned up to an informal meeting in Delhi. It wasn’t one of those Google office meetups, just one of those “let’s get together so we can make better jabs at each other on IRC”-type meetups. And to that effect it was awesome.

Vim. Other Editors Don’t Do Such Things

I’ve been making some progress on my Anjuta-Vim Integration project, infact, I even have screenshots 🙂 [1]. But that’s very deceptive, notice the (null) ((null)) on the window title. Essentially, I’ve written an AnjutaPlugin that implements the necessary interfaces to “open files”. Currently all my interface implementation functions are returning NULL’s or 0’s (which can cause unpredictable segfaults and  memdumps), and that brings me to the real challenge of my GSoC project.

Glade Gotchas

Glade is awesome, no denying that. It’s clean, unlike any other ‘GUI building tool’ I’ve seen. It generates an XML description of the GUI, which is parsed at runtime. It’s simple, and hence easy to use (by virtue of the previous two attributes). At the same time, it does have it’s idiosyncrasies (and limitations) as well, only I’ve never really used the signal callback connector it provides to discover it for myself. It took a bit of googling before I could figure it out.