24 May 2003 nymia   » (Master)

Timeline Widget

Spent approx.3 hours writing the initial part of the code, using QWidget as base. Used QSplitter as the container for the Layer and Timeline classes. Work on the code is proceeding very slooowwwly. Partly due my distaste for coding in Qt and KDE. I don't know why I'm coding this way, maybe I need more time to get settled-in. It feels so yuccky.

Saw a lot of reusable code from KIllustrator, Aztec3D and KOffice. Will have to pull it out from there and install it here.

Thougt about the scripting part of animation sequence. It looks like the scripting object will play a big role here as most of the movieClips must be scriptable, even without the IDE.

The scripting engine can be pulled from C-sharp, though. The language (grammar) is pretty much feature rich it would really be nice to use instead of Javascript or even Java.

5" Orbital Sander

Went to Home Depot and got the Ryobi 5" 8-hole Orbital Sander for about 29 bucks and immediately used it to remove the rough spots of the table. The Sander is great, saved a lot of laborious sanding task, though.

Simula

Played around with Simula code, wrote the first "Hello World" and three sample classes. Need to get up to speed in this Language because a large contracting job of porting Simula to another language might happen within the coming 15 months.

Tile Inlay

Went to Home Depot again to find the tile closest to ivory. Found one tile mat having the look similar to ivory and marble stone. Went back home and did the inlay work, it is currently in-progress at the moment and it looks very beautiful.

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