[GSOC]Slide Layout Extendibility :Weekly Report

Hello Everyone,

Here is the 
Link<http://vishvbrahmbhatt.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/slide-layout-extendibility-weekly-report-3/>
to
my blog for the weekly report update.

Thanks & Regards,
Vishv Brahmbhatt

On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Vishv Brahmbhatt <
vishvbrahmbhatt19@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> Here is the 
> Link<http://vishvbrahmbhatt.wordpress.com/2013/07/14/slide-layout-extendibility-weekly-report-4/> 
> to
> my blog for the weekly report update.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Vishv Brahmbhatt
>
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Vishv Brahmbhatt <
> vishvbrahmbhatt19@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello Everyone,
> > In the beginning of the week,I was able to complete the required changes
> > in XML parser function(for extracting slide layout information).
> >
> > But,after that I was caught up with the unit-test error(related to
> > configuration XML file) for rest of the 4 days.It seemed to me as a bug in
> > the unit-test process,because in-spite of having made proper entry in the
> > "Package_unittest.mk" and  "layoutlist.xml"  being  added at "unit-test"
> > file-path,the error came up(with wrongly generated path). I have already
> > posted my question to mailing-list 
> > Link<http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Unit-Test-Fail-Error-GSOC-Slide-Layout-Extendibility-td4064300.html>
> >  and
> > I am thankful for the reply from Markus.
> > And I will soon resolve this error with appropriate guidance and
> > discussion on mailing-list/ IRC.
> >
> > As of now ,I have moved ahead with addition of some new layouts to
> > "layoutlist.xml". I will peak up more speed from now on-wards.
> >
> > Also for the current status:
> > + I pushed one commit with required changes(last week).
> > + XML parser works in-spite of unit-test errors.
> > + So information from configuration XML file "layoutlist.xml" is
> > extracted perfectly.
> >
> > Thanks & Regards,
> > Vishv Brahmbhatt
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Vishv Brahmbhatt <
> > vishvbrahmbhatt19@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Everyone,
> > >
> > > Here is the  
> > > Link<http://vishvbrahmbhatt.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/slide-layout-extendibility-weekly-report-2/>
> > > to my blog for the weekly report update.
> > >
> > > Thanks & Regards,
> > > Vishv Brahmbhatt
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Vishv Brahmbhatt <
> > > vishvbrahmbhatt19@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello Everyone,
> > > >
> > > > Before the beginning of  this week ,I was debugging on impress slide
> > > > layouts.Basically,I got to understand the mechanism of creation of slide
> > > > layouts in the "normal" page,in the master pages like "notes" and "handout"
> > > > and much more.
> > > >
> > > > Currently in the slide layouts, Placeholder object's
> > > > height,width,position are hard-coded. So,I did following things during this
> > > > week:
> > > >
> > > > +So at first ,I started with creation of XML file  which stores
> > > > following information:
> > > > (1) Layout Type
> > > > (2) "PresObj" Kind
> > > > (3) Position co-ordinates of "PresObj"
> > > > (4) Size of "PreObj"(Width and Height)
> > > >
> > > > + I have started coding XML parser, which will read this information
> > > > from XML file and set the appropriate parameters in the function
> > > > "CalcAutoLayoutRectangles" (This function  calculates/sets  the Top
> > > > Position,Height and Width of Rectangle "PresObj" used.) And this will
> > > > parser will help in bringing configurability with Slide Layouts.
> > > >
> > > > + So XML parser should be fully completed, probably by "Monday" or
> > > > "Tuesday"(mostly it should get completed by this weekend).
> > > >
> > > > + Next week,I will work on  understanding "Slide Mater View" and  on
> > > > using "Slide Mater View" to edit the current built-in layouts.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Vishv Brahmbhatt