The Anthias Terminal

Since the code was now substantially sized, it was time to create an SVN repository.

I spent a good part of the weekend reading up on SVN, and experimenting with a local repository.

The following repository structure seems to be fine,

anthias/
anthias/tags/
anthias/branches/
anthias/trunk/
anthias/trunk/anthias_mockup/
anthias/trunk/website/


The repository can be browsed online or checked out anonymously with,

"svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/anthias/"

After a gap of nearly 3.5 months, I am proud to release mockup version 4. You can get it from here.

New features include:

A demo shell
The demo shell and the anthias terminal communicate over a socket. Currently, the demo shell only provides a list of completions to the terminal.

A basic completion system
The terminal now shows completions for program names. General filesystem completions are not yet supported.

Aside, the new design for the website is now live! It’s my first attempt at CSS; so please excuse any design/coding mistakes.

The next version will probably be 4.1, with some more enhancements to the completion system. In particular, the demo shell will work more closely with the terminal to provide possible completions.

Wiki
I have been looking at free options for hosting a wiki dedicated to Anthias. I had created one on editthis.info. But their service seems to be irregular.

I have created another wiki on Wetpaint. The service is superb, but I hope they come out with simpler-looking styles. Most likely, this will be the new wiki home.

Qt 4.2
Trolltech has released Qt 4.2 which has significant new features. The feature I am particularly thrilled about is “text completion”. I was trying to use the KCompletionBox earlier, but it hasn’t been working lately. Infact, last week I spent an entire day to try and port KListBox to QListWidget, but abandoned the effort after seeing the Qt 4.2 announcement.

So, now I will be free to design the completion UI.

New website design
I am testing out a new look for the Anthias website. Comments and code are welcome.