Not that hard after all

In my last post I said that I was having a lot of problems with QTextBrowser implementation because of images size and poor HTML support in general. Well, I was wrong!
After sending a few mails to Roberto Alsina (Lateral Opinion) I managed to display images with custom width and height, without needing to subclass more functions nor using QWebView. Thanks fo the help!

Once done that, I thought it would be cool to fix google-maps-streetview plugin, so I did it, and that's how it looks like:

But that wasn't enough. I was having a lot of free time, so I did a full commits party! Right away from commit 57 to commit 85! Almost 30 commits in one day!
Starting with 57. There was an error in all plugins that support *-more command. They were showing wrong results/current page number/result number.
Next important commit was the range 64-66 in which I implemented Jake-PyQT4 config dialog. I also added another skin. They both look this way:

Some small bug fixes, related with how I was managing prompt and cursor text, configuration parsing/saving, qss coding style, plugins typos, etc.

Commit 81 is interesting because of the focus-on-first-run bug described in my last post.

I should thanks to andresmcid for being such a good beta-tester and reporting bugs instantly via MSN. Thanks!

Also, thanks to nanotube (creator of pyHook) for promising making a release compatible with Python 2.7. Thanks!

Also, thanks to mgrant (creator of python-xlib) for promising making a release fixing some bugs and some annoying output messages. Thanks!

What now?
I'll be probably working on mp3 plugins. But first I'll level up a little bit my skills using Beautiful Soup. Once I think I'm done, I'll start making plugins for goear and filestube. Once I'm done with those, I'll add more.

I don't know when I'll post, but don't expect it too late. (or subscribe via RSS)

Bye!

New plugins and more problems...

It has been a week since my last post. I didn't though that I was going to spend that much time working on only two plugins, but I have an excuse. Let's start from the beginning.

As I said in my last post, I was going to work on !google-maps-streetview and !google-maps-route plugins. I finished them both and you can see them in SVN. That's how !google-maps-route looks like:

You can also read a short description on forums (Yes! Jake-PyQT4 has it's own forums now! And a few more things). After finishing them I started testing and I noticed that my current implementation of the text area can't handle images sizes, and that's a really big problem. I'm thinking in possible solutions, and till now the only thing that I see kind-of-possible is a complete web browser (QWebView). That won't be easy to implement at all, because my actual code relies heavily on QTextCursor. Anyways, I'll be working on it. Let's hope that I'll make it.

Good news is that, as some of you may have noticed, this page now has a Screenshots, Downloads and Forum areas. Also, now Jake-PyQT4 has a forum. I started writing in it. There isn't too much to read for now, but I'll keep writing.  andresmcid will be acting like moderator (I can't do everything because of lack of time). He has already written a few posts here, and the forum rules here, so, make sure you don't make him angry or he'll delete your posts :p

So, what now?
I'll be working on the QWebView thing, but not at full-time. Maybe some of you know that I'm working on aMSN2, and billiob and me (main devs) want to release 0.1 ASAP. Anyways, this doesn't mean that you won't see commits. It's just that you'll see 1 commit per day rather than 5.

I'll write next post probably after finishing that QWebView thing. Till then, feel free to write suggestions/ideas/comments/whatever in forums, enjoy released plugins, test Jake-PyQT4 and most important, have a good time!

Bye!