GSOC 2015: Configuration GUI

[Amar Takhar]

On 2015-06-15 23:52 +0530, Anand Krishnan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Currently I have uploaded the first part of the gui - just plain menus (with no
> event handlers yet) to my github: github.com/anandkp92/waf/gui/menu.py . The
> purpose of the GUI is for creating the config.cfg file for "waf config" of the
> waf version of RTEMS.

Looks good so far.


> I think you might need wxpython also to view it right now: http://
> www.pygopar.com/installing-wxpython-3-on-ubuntu14-04/

Everyone here will be able to sort that out, thanks for the help. :)


> The main thing I want to get reviewed on is the code. I am planning to have
> different classes for menus, tabs, groups etc and a main class that creates
> multiple instances of each and puts it all together.

It seems like a good start.


> Correct me if I am wrong:
> For the File options->
> 1) New ->Â  Opens a new instance with all the configuration options set to
> default again.

Yes.


> 2) Save -> Save the configuration options chosen so far.

Yes.


> 3) Open -> Open a previously saved set of configuration options.

Yep.


> Once this is cleared, I shall move on to implementing these.

OK.


> Please keep in mind this is a very crude version and the first part of many
> parts.

Right.  Lay out the panes and other UI Details before getting on to actual 
options.  I will help you with that.

You will also need to decide how each option should be displayed.


Amar.