I know, I'm a bit late with this weekly report, but I had 2 exams in the past week and I preferred waiting one more day and finish the tasks I proposed to myself this week, rather than posting a half-empty report. The good news is that I have just one more exam, so no more whining from me about my exams soon :).

    As I said last week, I proposed to myself to make a basic Snippets Browser to show the database and implement the GUI prototype which I shown in my last weekly report (#4). Shocking enough, but I managed to pull off those 2 tasks (not mentioning the fact that I had to rewrite the TreeModel for the Snippets Database 2 times this week).

    As you can see in the next 2 screenshots, this is how the Snippets Browser looks right now. There isn't an arrow as in the GUI prototype last week, but rather a toggle button (the one with the edit icon), because, as Johannes said, it's not necessarily the user will have the Snippets Browser on the left:



    A few explanations of the screenshots:

  • Right now only Delete and Insert works (delete erases the selected item - and recursively the snippets if the selected item is a snippets group. Had some problems with the memory, but after some debugging, it should be free'd properly right now). Add will be implemented when I make the Editor.
  • The plugin will have a preference that will allow showing just the snippets that support the language of the current document (so it won't show python snippets if the current document is a C++ file).
  • The edit button is a toggle one (as I said). Pushing it once makes the Snippets Browser maximize (it takes up all the space of the Anjuta UI) and pushing it again makes the exact same layout come back (so by pressing the edit button 3 times it will go exactly screenshot1 -> screenshot2 -> screenshot1). 
  • When I will make the SnippetsEditor widget it will be inside the frame on the right and will be sync'd with the selected item of the browser.
  • Will add the support of showing the browser on the right and the editor on the left if the user has it's browser placed on the right (if the user has the browser on the left, bottom, center or top it will up on the left as in the screenshot).
  • By pressing the "Add" button should make a popup appear with 2 options "Add Snippet ..." and "Add Snippets Group ...". Didn't wanted to have 2 add buttons (one for a snippet and one for a snippets group) since I felt that will burden the UI with too many buttons. 
  • Right now, the maximizing works with any position of the Snippets Browser in the un-maximized layout.

    For the next week, I will try to replace the red big text right there with an actual editor :) (and a few more details that come with the editor, but I don't know exactly what - mainly the editor should be mostly done until this + some other stuff).