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12:17.15CIA-65BRL-CAD: 03Stattrav 07http://brlcad.org * r3652 10/wiki/User:Stattrav/GSoC2012_log: Updation of logs
12:27.04CIA-65BRL-CAD: 03Phoenix 07http://brlcad.org * r3653 10/wiki/User:Phoenix/GSoc2012/Reports: /* Community Bonding */
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12:49.08CIA-65BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r50530 10/brlcad/trunk/src/tclscripts/rtwizard/rtwizard.tcl: Make RtWizard namespace more explicitly toplevel, add extra check to make sure we have a proposed output file before doing the file exists test.
12:56.16CIA-65BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r50531 10/brlcad/trunk/src/tclscripts/rtwizard/rtwizard.tcl: Use 'C' for color
13:46.53CIA-65BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r50532 10/brlcad/trunk/src/tclscripts/rtwizard/rtwizard.tcl: rename a few variables
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16:00.47CIA-65BRL-CAD: 03Anoop 07http://brlcad.org * r3656 10/wiki/User:Anoop/Logs: /* May 14,2012 */
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16:43.30CIA-65BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r50533 10/brlcad/trunk/src/tclscripts/rtwizard/rtwizard.tcl: If an output file is specified but doesn't have a pix or png extension, assume pix
16:47.41brlcadwaves
16:53.11brlcadstarseeker: did you try downloading the new bsd sort utility?
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16:55.33brlcadcristina: you can (and should) run "svn mv" .. and yes it'll make your patch crazy-huge
16:55.48brlcadcompress it and should be fine
16:56.29brlcadthat said, if someone gets to reviewing and applying you patch before you can get to it, no worries -- the instructions work too
16:57.08brlcadi just may myself since it's rather major and great to see :)
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17:32.54cristinabrlcad: I've used "svn mv" but then decided to use the alternative, i.e. specify the steps and let someone with commit access to do them
17:33.14cristinathe problem was that with "svn mv", the /nmg folder would still remain
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18:52.41brlcadcristina: it only remains for you until you "svn commit", it would have been automatically removed when applied
18:53.01brlcaduntil you commit, you can still revert and you need the directory to exist (with the embedded .svn dirs) for that
18:53.09brlcadno worries, it's a great patch
18:57.53cristinabrlcad: that makes sense :). I was thinking on creating a separate repository with brlcad and apply the changes there, where I would have commit access
19:01.34brlcadhow would that have helped? :)
19:03.36andrei_hey brlcad
19:03.43brlcadhola andrei_
19:03.47cristinawell, my problem is that if I move the files from one side to another, the patch will contain only informations about the lines in the files deleted (i.e., '- <line>'). It doesn't say anything about the files in the new location ('+ <line>')
19:03.56andrei_from what I have read on the sourceforge comments(and I have done that a pretty long time ago )  I should only remove comments from my patch
19:03.58andrei_and apply it?
19:04.09andrei_the one with strdup global var.
19:04.52CIA-65BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r50534 10/brlcad/trunk/doc/docbook/system/man1/en/rtwizard.xml: Make some updates to the rtwizard man page.
19:04.53starseekerbrlcad: not yet - only page I found so far was that portage one
19:05.01starseekeror ports
19:08.11starseekerscowls at rtedge
19:10.57andrei_I will also post some more detailed and accurate info about my current situation, possible work schedule etc.
19:11.08andrei_hopefuly today.
19:15.52brlcadcristina: hm, the patch should have included the removal and addition if you used svn mv (or at least instructions for a mv)
19:16.31brlcadandrei_: actually it looked like your patch doesn't actually work, no?
19:16.59brlcadandrei_: you split the variable into a local scope, but then it's intended purpose no longer works -- why it was global in the first place
19:17.22brlcadI'd have to read it again to be sure, but it seemed more complex than the patch made it out to be
19:21.28brlcadcristina: thanks for helping anoop -- that's awesome
19:22.16cristinabrlcad: no problem. I'm glad when I can be useful
19:24.27andrei_brlcad, I will try to look into it aswell.
19:31.10CIA-65BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r50535 10/brlcad/trunk/src/tclscripts/rtwizard/rtwizard.tcl: Want to pop up the GUI if all we have is the .g file specified
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20:33.55CIA-65BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r50536 10/brlcad/trunk/AUTHORS: credit wu jianbang (aka phoenix) with an initial code contribution that added support to the brep command for converting existing primitives to brep form. (sf patch 3515194 applied in r50529 by starseeker). thanks wu!
20:36.51CIA-65BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r50537 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS:
20:36.51CIA-65BRL-CAD: credit wu jianbang (aka phoenix) with an initial code contribution that added
20:36.51CIA-65BRL-CAD: support to the brep command for converting existing primitives to brep form. (sf
20:36.51CIA-65BRL-CAD: patch 3515194 applied slightly tweaked in r50529 by starseeker). gsoc2012.
20:37.58brlcadstarseeker: does the png output support work in gui mode too?
20:38.00brlcad(rtwizard)
20:41.08CIA-65BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r50538 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS: cliff added support to rtwizard so that (at least in command-line mode) it'll write out a png file from the framebuffer. if the filename indicates a png extension, it's used and otherwise still defaults to pix.
20:42.10brlcadpatch leads me to believe 'yes', so feel free to delete that NEWS line if it's otherwise
20:54.19CIA-65BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r50539 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS: richard fixed a region demotion bug in the mged 'red' command (really, another bug? regression should test/catch this...) where a region was being having the region-flag unset.
20:54.23brlcadis a little dubious of that .. want more info
20:57.31CIA-65BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r50540 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libged/red.c: shouldn't muddle our own terminology with redundancy. regions and groups are combinations. (plus the serial comma was missing and the usage implied an option null set)
20:59.21CIA-65BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r50541 10/brlcad/trunk/TODO: red has failed too many times. new failures such as r50521 necessitate a regression test.
21:04.05brlcadstarseeker: unrelated, came across CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES -- apparently used to find installed libraries that don't have a "usual" suffix
21:04.28brlcadlike having a libwhatever.so.5 but no libwhatever.so, you'd add .so.5 to CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES and it'll find it
21:04.49brlcadof course, wrapped in some sort of if (unix) check for that one
21:05.26brlcadif (platform_supports_so_extension)
21:10.21CIA-65BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r50542 10/brlcad/trunk/TODO: need to bump (most, but probably not all) libs version number .. for any whose headers have changed
21:13.11CIA-65BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r50543 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS:
21:13.11CIA-65BRL-CAD: keith improved nurbs raytracing (fixing the segment lists being returned to
21:13.11CIA-65BRL-CAD: analysis codes) when we're shooting from inside nurbs geometry. before, it was
21:13.11CIA-65BRL-CAD: ignoring hits from behind. r50167 makes them look at those too so the negative
21:13.11CIA-65BRL-CAD: hit point is properly returned.
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21:17.45CIA-65BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r50544 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS:
21:17.46CIA-65BRL-CAD: keith fixed a surprising bug in the relatively new BoT mesh TIE rendering bug
21:17.46CIA-65BRL-CAD: where segments were being lost during rt_bot_makesegs. it was using a hit_vpriv
21:17.46CIA-65BRL-CAD: array that TIE was never filling in, used for cleaning up odd hits, exiting
21:17.46CIA-65BRL-CAD: before entrance, and dangling entrace cases.
21:23.51CIA-65BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r50545 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS:
21:23.52CIA-65BRL-CAD: keith fixed a surprising bug in the relatively new BoT mesh TIE rendering bug
21:23.52CIA-65BRL-CAD: where segments were being lost during rt_bot_makesegs. it was using a hit_vpriv
21:23.52CIA-65BRL-CAD: array that TIE was never filling in, used for cleaning up odd hits, exiting
21:23.52CIA-65BRL-CAD: before entrance, and dangling entrace cases. this consequently was related to
21:23.52CIA-65BRL-CAD: another issue where hit segments were off by 1.01 units.
21:40.48brlcadstarseeker: maybe you can hit this up while you're mucking with rtwizard: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=640805&aid=3485107&group_id=105292
21:41.12brlcadthe summary has the crux: rtwizard needs output file menu with default name
21:46.38starseekerbrlcad: it will output png in at least one case, but last time we discussed it I think the conclusion was more changes to the GUI are needed
21:47.25brlcadhm, okay .. your recent change seemed different
21:47.46starseekercommand line and GUI are different worlds at the moment
21:47.56starseekerI'm considering syncing them, but that's a fair bit of work
21:49.38starseekeractually, Bob and I had discussed integrating "rtwizard-like" abilities into Archer already
21:50.05starseekerprobably won't let us outright kill rtwizard sadly, but for frequent users it should "suck quite a lot less"
21:53.32starseekerCMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES is actually fairly interesting... might help with the stdc++ check...
22:00.25starseekerbrlcad: yeah, we can leave the news item for png output - if any of the GUI modes don't output PNG, now's the time to fix it
22:04.15brlcadif archer gets rtwizard-like features .. it really should get the majority so we don't have to maintain two codes
22:04.56crdueckhey guys, taking a look at src/libanalyze/density.c, it seems like lines 43-50 can be safely removed since the if(){ ... continue;} section should handle skipping comment blocks
22:05.15brlcadrtwizard was written in just a couple weeks .. an archer rewrite shouldn't take longer than that or someone's doing something wrong (or drastically inefficiently different)
22:06.31brlcadcrdueck: have you tested that?
22:06.41brlcadthere's a test_density regression in there I believe
22:06.55CIA-65BRL-CAD: 03Tbrowder 07http://brlcad.org * r3657 10/wiki/MgedFAQ: initial cut at making a wiki FAQ out of the referenced help forum msg
22:07.01crdueckoh okay perfect, i was going to ask how the density function is used so i could do some tests
22:07.53brlcad"brlman gqa" has an example density file
22:08.18brlcador just "man gqa" if you have a proper install and your MANPATH is set
22:30.56crdueckwhere are the "BU_INCLUDE_DIRS"? they seemingly arent in the main include dir
22:32.49crdueckor rather, i'm compiling test_density.c with "gcc test_density.c -I ../../include" and its complaining about undefined references to some bu functions. so what do i need to do to include the bu dirs?
23:01.05cristinabrlcad: I've made a new patch that includes changing the location of the files from src/primitives/nmg
23:01.41cristinahowever, the size of the archived patch exceeds the maximum size allowed for files to be uploaded
23:01.58cristinashould I store the file somewhere else and provide a link to it?
23:05.52CIA-65BRL-CAD: 03Cprecup 07http://brlcad.org * r3658 10/wiki/User:Cprecup/GSoC2012_progress: alternative patch created for migrating libnmg from librt
23:14.11CIA-65BRL-CAD: 03Cprecup 07http://brlcad.org * r3659 10/wiki/User:Cprecup/GSoC2012_progress: update: provided temporary link for the new patch
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