[GSoC 2017] First two weeks of Community Bonding

Hello Everyone!

In my previous post I introduced you all to the Calendar Application project that I would be working upon as a part of GSoC 2017. In this post I would be focusing on my first two weeks of the community bonding period.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/akshayagarwal007/2017-05-18_gsoc_2017_first_two_weeks_of_community_bonding/

Thanks for the report, Akshay!

Can you quickly describe how you solve your "difficulties in linking the test application to the newly built libbe.so "and your “issues with it as the icons were not aligning properly due to transparent area, and also I wasn’t handling bitmaps properly.”

There’s a chance others face the same problem at some time.

Ya sure. Do I add them in the blog post?

Can we store the events as attributes? It would be nice to be able to query for them like “Events in the next 2 week” and stuff like that.
Maybe you could check the ImKit how they stored and updated the indexes on the fly: https://github.com/HaikuArchives/IMKit

Just wondering, does BDurationFormat already support duration humanization, you know, the “1 hour ago” -and its abreviation version, “1h”, but also the fuzzy ones like “1 week ago” and so on?

@extrowerk I would be working on that line in the next few days as I mentioned. I have to read about the bfs query-able attributes in more depth and look at some existing implementations in details. Thanks for the link, also a few others resources pointed out by @Paradoxon would be helpful.

I would definitely be coming up with many questions and i’ll trouble you then.

Yes it does.

Yeah, it’s probably best to keep all info in the blog post instead of spreading some into the comments.

Nice report and work, keep it up!

thanks for the appreciation…!

In that situation, an “humanize” format will have returns “52 years” and “16 years”, not the whole details.
That was my question, got my answer. Thanks.