[PiTiVi] Progress Report July 31, 2007

[Brandon Lewis <brandon_lewis berkeley edu>]

I spent last week working on file load/save support. I started by going 
over a patch supplied by Richard Boulton which implemented file 
load/save support application logic (i.e. when to display file 
choosers/confirmation dialogs). Unfortunately the patch no longer 
cleanly applies to the current source tree.

I did what I could to manually apply the patch, then went over the ideas 
with Edward. He convinced me that we need to create a design document, 
and get some test cases implemented. So, I spent the rest of the week 
working on design documents on the wiki.

http://pitivi.org/wiki/Design_Docs

That page will give you a good idea of our current status. I've uploaded 
what design documents I've written, and Edward is starting to fill in 
the rest. I took a little time out to design an editing slider widget,
(http://pitivi.org/wiki/Design_Docs_Simple_Timeline_Slider), but the 
majority of the time has been spent working on the File Load and Save 
document. http://pitivi.org/wiki/Design_Docs_File_Load_and_Save

Once i've finished with this, I will begin coding test cases which 
mirror the use cases, and then finally begin coding the core application 
code itself. With the application logic in place, I will turn my 
attention to the actual saving and parsing of the input file. Edward has 
some ideas on how to turn that into a pluggable back-end that could 
support a large number of input/output formats.