Friday, November 27, 2009

School is becoming a pain the in asterisk

The OOP344 Assignment 2 just seems to be getting bigger and bigger each time I look at it. My group plans to make a text editor, meaning there are a lot of things we are going to have to change to properly implement this thing. By the looks of it we will need a minimum of 5 new classes not specified on the wiki, and that will just give us a barely functioning text editor, with nothing fancy at all. I've already finished IO_Field and IO_Form for my group, now I am grinding through IO_TextEdit, which is taking me MUCH longer than expected, and its still not completely debugged. With each bug I find, it usually means an extra 5 - 10 lines of code, so by the end of this IO_TextEdit will easily be over 300 lines without comments, which is taxing to think about when the 'due date' is tomorrow. My group members are having problems with some of their tasks as well, which makes our outlook kinda bleak. But of course, I am sure we will get things running smoothly, I'm just saying a lesser group would be dead in the water by now. The week from hell starts tomorrow, test after test, assignment after assignment, coming next week, then exams, this semester went by WAY too quickly.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

A return to form

For the last while, I haven't been paying the same love and attention to OOP344 as I usually do to my C++ programing courses. Enough of that, I'm back into the coding mood, by the looks of things, my group will have A2 done by the end of this week. Which means I have to haul ass and finish my assigned work too, so I will be getting back to my roots of all-nighters coding C++ until my eyes bleed. This may sound bad but it makes me happy. Even once we are done A2, we will be adding a megaton of features, hopefully, so that this text editor (which will actually be a text editor when we get a some file manipulation functions going) will be seriously worth its salt.
I plan to make a formatting tool for it, which will, upon activation, format the text into properly indented and stylized C++ bundle of code, and I also hope to make it so that it highlights and colors in braces, quoted words, functions ect. Now I'll give credit where its due, I will likely be using a similar method to the one tdot posted on his blogg (and no I won't link you to it, find it yourself) because he seems to have it nicely explained there.
Anyways, I figured it was about time I updated this blogg again, but now I must tie it up because I have some classes to write!