## A DETAILED VERSION HISTORY! ##
## (Really more of a diary than anything)
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## Friday Night / Saturday Morning, April 27th, 2006
#  Fun fun stuff tonight.  Nothing much to report on, mostly got adjusted
# to looking at code again after a week in the humanities.  I got the code
# organized into more files, including moving all of the variables and tab
# and window initialization. This greatly helped me split up my files, as
# I don't have to have a seperate initialization function within each file
# that has to be called in the main file for every additional file. Instead,
# I just need to put "from variables import *" on the top of each file and
# violah!  Much easier.
#
#  I also got the tab closing working, which is very relieving, as this
# problem was starting to seem like it would never be solved.  I also
# got the windows to adjust appropriately to the tab closure. 
#
#  As for what to work on tomorrow, I'd like to work on opening new tabs 
# through the "View" menu, and this would mean working on a system of
# writing to windows outside of the first initialization. Once this is
# accomplished, I think I'd like to start reading in data from text files
# to be displayed on the screen, which means working on scrolling and
# navigating.  After this, text input, documentation and I should be about
# done with this.  Very nice feeling, this progress thing.
##
## Early, Early Morning Friday, April 21st, 2006
#  This may not SEEM like a big change, but I organized all of my code, as
# Jim previously suggested.  It's organized into three larger files, one
# for interface functions, one for chat functions, and one for the main
# code.  I may adjust this later, splitting it off even more, but it looks
# good for now.
#
#  I also did some minor things, like initializing global variables in the
# other files, updating the introductory comments, and making the error and
# exit messages more informative.
#
#  As for next time, I'm going to try and fix the closing and opening of tabs,
# and then maybe get some of the information browsing going, such as scrolling!
##
## Late Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
#   I actually did not do anything tonight. I tried
#   screwing around with the code for the tabs, and
#   aside from doing maybe one or two minor things, I
#   really just screwed up the tab code more. Now it
#   trying to close a window only selects the first tab.
#
#   For next time, which may be a long time away, I need
#   to fix those tab things.  Bad timing, eh.
##
## Late Saturday/Early Sunday, April 8th/9th, 2006
# Its been a long night. I got a bunch of stuff with
# the tabs working and got all the menus to display
# properly.  Plus! You can now make menu selections
# and the ones I've configured will result in pop-up
# prompts. You can quit the program WITHOUT using
# Ctrl-C, which is nice, and it asks you in a pretty
# pop-up. You can also sort-of close the tabs, this
# is something that's gonna need some work. Right now
# you can only close out the first tab, and when
# there's only one tab left, it gives a pretty prompt
# telling you no.
#
# As for my next adventure, I would like to finish
# up the opening and closing of tabs, specifically
# on closing first. I would also like to get stuff
# to view inside the tabs, perhaps scrolling. We
# shall see..
##
## Saturday, April 8th, 2006
# I spent all of today figuring out the panel objects in
# curses. Very strange, though I finally figured it out.
# I first thought that panels were a way of alternating
# content on the same windows, and it took me several hours
# to figure out that each panel needs to be tied to its own
# window.  Now I can alternate content on the same window
# by selecting different tabs, which is great, as the basic
# code is there, I just need to flesh it out. Also, tab selection
# and menu selection now use the same code for display.
#
# I'm hoping to get back on tonight and work on displaying the
# menus and perhaps get some sort of browsing or reading or
# something into the tabs.  Perhaps text browsing first, such
# as scrolling, and then maybe editing. We shall see.
##
## Friday, April 7th, 2006
# Today was a simple day, I only worked with some spare time
# and before going to bed. I skimmed down the code a bit, but
# the main thing I did was shift the menu from several global
# string variables, which was incredibly clumsy, into a matrix.
# This allows me to edit any of the menu options and the letters
# to be highlighted on the fly, with no changing of the code.
# This also allowed me to pare down the code that looks to see
# if the user's input matched the letter for a menu option
# Previously, I would have to create an if statement for each
# menu options, but the matrix allowed me to slim the code down
# to a single 'for' statement that checks the input against the
# letters for all the menu options.  Very convienent and quite
# nice, as I can adjust any of the menu options and the code
# will respond accordingly. I also created a bar of tabs on the
# bottom of the screen, but you can only select them for now,
# as I haven't started the tab screens.
# 
# For tommorow, I want to to work on several things. Mainly, I
# would like to look into panels to use for menu options and
# perhaps tabbed screens. I would like to make an automated
# system of expanding the menu options that utilizes the "menu"
# matrix. Also a system for pop-ups and perhaps text entering.
# G'Night.
##
## Thursday, April 5th, 2006
# Mmhmm. Today was mostly spent stripping my Chat GUI down to a
# basic level of user interaction. I removed the network code,
# the chatting code (though it may make a return), and removed
# the two chat windows from existence. As of right now, the
# system merely waits for input from the user, and allows the
# user to select menus, although not their options yet.
#
#  My goals for this coming Saturday are to work on user interactions,
# such as allowing users to select menu options with the arrow keys. I
# would also like to create some method of tabs, to allow the user to
# switch between several pages of information, and a pop-up window
# function for option windows and prompts. And if time allows, I would
# like to create some means for browsing and navigating through
# information within the tabs, including scrolling.
#
#  My other goal is to figure out what I'm doing aside from creating a
# GUI.  As of right now I'm looking at PySoulseek, a peer-to-peer program
# written in Python that allows sharing music with others and also
# serves as a music player. This is a large program, and I think I'm
# over-estimating my time, but I could at least try and implement the
# mp3 player.  There's really a lot out there in terms of python and
# networking, and I'm really limited by my knowledge of Python outside
# of the simple networking and interface work I've been doing.  
##
## Wednesday, March 28th, 2006
# This was my first time playing around with curses since Spring Break,
# and I mostly did minor tweaking.  I fixed up the chat section of the
# GUI, and updated several of the GUI-related functions.  But the
# biggest thing I did was add a menu bar and actually got it working.
# This involved figuring out how to identify when some pressed Ctrl-f,
# which was tougher than it sounds, at least for me. I ended up
# converting the Ascii code into printable format, and then checked for
# what printed out when I hit Ctrl-f, which was ^F, simple enough. So
# with that fixed, I'm about ready to go. 
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