[scribus-dev] Tables GSoC - Weekly Report #1

[Elvis Stansvik]

2011/6/5 Craig Bradney <cbradney at zip.com.au>:
> On 6/5/11 10:16 PM, Craig Bradney wrote:
>> On 6/5/11 7:43 PM, Elvis Stansvik wrote:
>>> 2011/6/5 Elvis Stansvik <elvstone at gmail.com>:
>>>> Hi all,
>>> ...
>>>> use wiki markup for the titles, since who knows if these reports might
>>>> go in there at some point, and besides I kind of like the look of
>>>> them. [...]
>>> I did just that, so the report is now also at
>>>
>>> http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/GSoC_2011_Tables_Weekly_Reports
>>>
>>> Might be a little be more pleasant for reading. I'll keep that page
>>> updated with future reports.
>>>
>>> Elvis
>>>
>>
>> So far, so good. I like the code, the comments and the progress. Keep up
>> the great work. I have subscribed to the RSS feed
>> (http://scribus.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=scribus/gsoc11tables;a=summary
>> for those not in IRC atm) . I like the way you are using scripter to
>> develop and test, hence removing the GUI from the equation until
>> required - this will ensure the main code in the pageitem/doc etc works
>> properly.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Craig
>>
>>
>
> I believe for your question, you will find the answer with the image
> frame object type and its DrawObj_Item method, and the path is the
> PoLine to clip to I think - just per the image frame code.

Hm, right, I think I tried that (e.g. setupPolygon(&PoLine) followed
by p->setClipPath()) but wasn't able to get it to work. I think I
debugged it to the PoLine actually being empty (no points), but I'm
not sure. I'll try that route again and see what's going on. It's not
urgent or anything.

Elvis