[GSOC]Slide Layout Extendibility :Weekly Report #4

[Vishv Brahmbhatt]

Hello Everyone,

Here is the Link<http://vishvbrahmbhatt.wordpress.com/2013/07/14/slide-layout-extendibility-weekly-report-4/>
to
my blog for the weekly report update.

Thanks & Regards,
Vishv Brahmbhatt

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Vishv Brahmbhatt <
vishvbrahmbhatt19 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> In the beginning of the week,I was able to complete the required changes
> in XML parser function(for extracting slide layout information).
>
> But,after that I was caught up with the unit-test error(related to
> configuration XML file) for rest of the 4 days.It seemed to me as a bug in
> the unit-test process,because in-spite of having made proper entry in the
> "Package_unittest.mk" and  "layoutlist.xml"  being  added at "unit-test"
> file-path,the error came up(with wrongly generated path). I have already
> posted my question to mailing-list Link<http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Unit-Test-Fail-Error-GSOC-Slide-Layout-Extendibility-td4064300.html> and
> I am thankful for the reply from Markus.
> And I will soon resolve this error with appropriate guidance and
> discussion on mailing-list/ IRC.
>
> As of now ,I have moved ahead with addition of some new layouts to
> "layoutlist.xml". I will peak up more speed from now on-wards.
>
> Also for the current status:
> + I pushed one commit with required changes(last week).
> + XML parser works in-spite of unit-test errors.
> + So information from configuration XML file "layoutlist.xml" is
> extracted perfectly.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Vishv Brahmbhatt
>
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Vishv Brahmbhatt <
> vishvbrahmbhatt19 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> Here is the  Link<http://vishvbrahmbhatt.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/slide-layout-extendibility-weekly-report-2/>
>> to my blog for the weekly report update.
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Vishv Brahmbhatt
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Vishv Brahmbhatt <
>> vishvbrahmbhatt19 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>
>>> Before the beginning of  this week ,I was debugging on impress slide
>>> layouts.Basically,I got to understand the mechanism of creation of slide
>>> layouts in the "normal" page,in the master pages like "notes" and "handout"
>>> and much more.
>>>
>>> Currently in the slide layouts, Placeholder object's
>>> height,width,position are hard-coded. So,I did following things during this
>>> week:
>>>
>>> +So at first ,I started with creation of XML file  which stores
>>> following information:
>>> (1) Layout Type
>>> (2) "PresObj" Kind
>>> (3) Position co-ordinates of "PresObj"
>>> (4) Size of "PreObj"(Width and Height)
>>>
>>> + I have started coding XML parser, which will read this information
>>> from XML file and set the appropriate parameters in the function
>>> "CalcAutoLayoutRectangles" (This function  calculates/sets  the Top
>>> Position,Height and Width of Rectangle "PresObj" used.) And this will
>>> parser will help in bringing configurability with Slide Layouts.
>>>
>>> + So XML parser should be fully completed, probably by "Monday" or
>>> "Tuesday"(mostly it should get completed by this weekend).
>>>
>>> + Next week,I will work on  understanding "Slide Mater View" and  on
>>> using "Slide Mater View" to edit the current built-in layouts.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Vishv Brahmbhatt
>>>
>>
>>
>
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