Whenever we deal with a computer language, say making a compiler, translator, interpreter or converter. Our first requirement is some tool or engine that can read our code file and divide it into tokens such as identifiers, operators, etc. This is known as Lexical Analysis and is done by a program known as lexer. For… Continue reading Lexers and Parsers
Every thing has pros and cones, it’s better known by everyone. But how important is to know that which face of the coin is right for you is need to be educated. It was a generation which was forced on the name of superstition not to wash clothes on Thursday, instead of making them understand… Continue reading Better Educate than force
Touching to one of today’s hot topics is simply fun. Big data is one of them. Why is it so important to know! What exactly it is! How is it useful! Curious to know? 🙂 Follow up.. Since beginning, it is always good to save your things for future. Have a look at the history,… Continue reading Big Data
As I mentioned in my previous posts about my GSOC project, I have been working to improve the UI of OpenSCAD, a 3D CAD Modeler. The project is aimed to enhance the usability of the software by adding new features that are easy and quick to access and use and also to provide the aesthetic… Continue reading GSOC project – UI brushup of OpenSCAD
Hello, Today we will develop our own editor using QScintilla. I hope you must have downloaded and installed it, if not, refer my last post. Before start developing, you must be familiar with the QScintilla Documentation. Also the QScintilla folder you have downloaded has complete documentation. Being in QScintilla main folder, type $firefox doc/html-Qt4Qt5/index.html and… Continue reading QScintilla Editor Development
QScintilla, What is this? QScintilla is a port to Qt of Neil Hodgson’s Scintilla C++ editor control. So QScintilla is a scintilla based editor that uses Qt functions to implement a good number of impressive features such as syntax highlighting, error indication, folding, code completion, breakpoints etc. QScintilla is available under the GNU GPL (v2… Continue reading QScintilla Editor Integration
The next task in my proposal for GSOC was integrating an Editor into OpenSCAD. This integration of Editor is necessary, as it was observed that many users prefer external editors like notepad++ etc over legacy editor of OpenSCAD. These editors facilitates them with functionality like auto code completion, brace completion, syntax highlighting etc. A discussion… Continue reading Editor interface
