Re: [orca-list] IMPORTANT - README - FLAG DAY



Hi joanie,

I just had a few questions which I had sent you privately.
firstly, I had tryed to hack orca long time back.
But writing foss based financial web applications is my day job.
That is not a heavy work for me because I have a good team which is well payed full-time for this work. so I rarely have to directly write a lot of code.

Another interesting thing is that regarding documentation.
I can get some funding for this work provided I start to understand scripting and the entire scripting architecture to start with.

Now to my questions.
It has been a long time and I don't know the insides of orca.
Can you tell me how to generate the debug streem for orca as you had suggested? Secondly, which orca module should I absolutely understand before diving into code? I am a python programmer with 3 + years of experience so this might be a good approach for me to start with.

These wer the questions I had asked you privately.

Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Sunday 09 May 2010 06:26 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
Hi Krishnakant:

But I thought I might be too stupid to ask on this list because all
contributers would find it so basic that it was too obvious to answer.
Gosh, I don't think we have that sort of culture here. From what I've
seen, we all help each other out. If you have a question about Orca,
especially its code, you should ask here.

Joanie, I had sent you a private mail for asking some specific help on
getting started with hacking orca.
I just went through my Inbox again and I'm not seeing it. Sorry! Sleep
deprivation and/or that silly tracker bot could be to blame.

Regardless, in terms of getting started, I'd suggest you just dive in.
Just like Josà did the other day: He wanted Orca to speak the line to
which the caret had moved. So he:

1. Captured a debug.out

2. Looked at all the events in his debug.out to see what we were getting
and what we were responding to and how we were responding

3. Thought about what the solution would look like

4. Asked on the list for confirmation of his analysis of the relevant
portion of the debug.out

5. Started in on a script, but couldn't quite get it working

6. Asked on the list

Etc., etc.

I'm afraid we do not have a "Beginner's Guide to Creating Custom Scripts
in Orca" written. I'm afraid I do not have time to write such a guide.
Your humble project lead/maintainer is a volunteer who has a DayJob. If
other humble volunteers feel like writing such a guide, I would be more
than happy to give feedback and edits as time permitted. If someone had
funding to write such documentation, that would be great too.

Until we have such a guide, I'm afraid you'll have to roll up your
sleeves and dig into Orca. As I've said time and time again, debug.out's
contain a wealth of information and you just have to get used to reading
them and pulling out the relevant details. There's nothing else I have
or can suggest at the moment. My apologies.

Take care.
--joanie






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