All Hands June 17 2004

Announcements

• Jeffrey Harris is visiting this week

Demos

• Donn demoed the Detail View. While it wasn't finished by any means, it showed the basic concept and the scaffolding for things that are to come. It also included a first cut of the markup bar, with buttons laid out where we think we'll want them. (For now, we have a mishmash of stuff that works but doesn�t look quite right and other stuff that look correct, but doesn�t work properly.)
  • Donn noted that with CPIA, it was incredibly easy to change things, and that many things that "look hard" come for free. For example, he showed us how he could already copy styled text from another application and paste it into Chandler and retain its styling. Because wxWidgets supports styled text, Donn didn�t have to do anything extra to make it work.
  • John noted that this was only the second time that someone had done a demo that used nested blocks (with Jed being the first), and Jed pointed out that this was the first time that someone who was not intimately involved with the construction of CPIA had demoed something using CPIA.

• Brian showed that Twisted is now integrated in Chandler (with thanks to Mark and Andi). Now we can use any of the protocols and features that Twisted supports, and Brian showed that the IMAP libraries were functional by sending an email message to a test server. Brian narrated while Chandler noticed that there was new mail, downloaded it, and Brian then showed the new message in the repository.
  • There was talk of a future demo on searching email content.

-- EstherSun - 24 Jun 2004