Artikel von Mathias im August 2007
Spell Checking for the Masses
Recently I needed spell checking support for some cairo (and Pango) based canvas widget. Should be easy to pick, considering there are several aproaches to implement spell checking for GTK+ widgets, like gtkspell or libsexy. Unfortunatly those pretty libraries have the fault of focusing on one single widget only. So equiped with the power of Vala I wrote some small generic spell checking library for GTK+. Instead of directly attaching to some widget this library uses a [simple ...
Automake support for Vala
Using Vala together with automake was quite painful so far. When looking into libvala's Makefile.am for instance you'll see alot of duplication.
So I hacked a little script generating the automake rules needed for vala code. After adding the vala-support script to your autogen.sh script your Makefile.am can look as simple as this:
lib_LTLIBRARIES = libtest.la
libtest_la_CFLAGS = $(AM_CFLAGS) $(GTK_CFLAGS)
libtest_la_VALAFLAGS = --library=test --pkg=gtk+-2.0
libtest_la_LIBADD = $(GTK_LIBS)
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Final SoC-Status
So the summer of code has reached its hands-down phasis and few minutes before the deadline finally height-for-width support has landed:
Proper support for rotated labels with ellipses also has been backported to GTK+:
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SoC-Status 2007/08/02
I didn't provide a status report for some time, so what happend in extended layout world?
I stopped to waste time with baseline alignment and switched to spreading natural size support over GTK+. As a result of this effort many widgets and one cell renderer are providing and interpreting natural size information now: GtkAlignment, GtkBin, GtkButton, GtkCellRendererText, GtkCellView, GtkFrame, GtkHBox, GtkLabel, GtkSocket, GtkTable and GtkVBox.
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