Re: Getting Started Developing LyX

2009-02-19 Thread David Mertens
Thank you all for your responses. I remember thinking at one point months ago that I should learn to work with svn but I only gave it about 30 min, so I was generally overwhelmed by it. Now that I have a little more time, I have found the red book to be great. rh's instructions cover probably 90

Re: Getting Started Developing LyX

2009-02-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Pavel Sanda writes: > the best for the beginning is trying to fix some bugs that annoys you > in lyx - thats the best motivation ;) there is also zillion of bugs > reported by another users, so you can try to fix some of them, see > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/ . And my advice would be to start with

Re: Getting Started Developing LyX

2009-02-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
David Mertens wrote: > I'd say I write some pretty solid C++ code, but I haven't the first clue > where to start if I wanted to play with the LyX code, let alone contribute > to the project. my advice is not to waste much time by reading qt/... documentation but trying direcly do some coding. imho

Re: Getting Started Developing LyX

2009-02-17 Thread rgheck
David Mertens wrote: 0) LyX is written in C++. That much is clear from the website, and the Developer Resources seem to have lots of guidance for learning good C++ style. See the files in development/coding/...once you get the source. 1) In what toolkit is LyX written? It appears to be Q

Getting Started Developing LyX

2009-02-17 Thread David Mertens
Greetings All - I'd say I write some pretty solid C++ code, but I haven't the first clue where to start if I wanted to play with the LyX code, let alone contribute to the project. I looked around the website but I couldn't find what I was looking for. Links to any of the following information wo