Week 4 7/14/08 - 7/18/08
On Monday, Evan isn’t here this week to help me with Scenic so I designed the GUI for my Notifier application. I managed to implement most of the GUI although it is mostly unformatted. I got to reuse my selectable-row table class so that was a lot faster. For lunch, Leilani and I had leftover sandwiches from a convention on the weekend that were on a tray in the refrigerator with a sign that said “Eat Me.”
On Tuesday, I worked on the listeners for the buttons in my Notifier application and made it load the user’s events and subscribed events from the database.
On Wednesday, I continued working on my Notifier GUI functionality. We went to a pizza lunch for undergrad and highschool students who are working at UW for the summer. I started trying to send an email from my program but I needed a mail server so I set that aside and started trying to get java text-to-speech to work.
On Thursday, I spent most of the morning trying to figure out compiler errors I was getting where eclipse would recongize the classes that I was importing but then when I tried compiling it wouldn’t be able to resolve the classes. I eventually started IMing with Garret and figured out that I had to route my call to the class through the servlet because otherwise it would choke when it found that the class wasn’t GWT compatible. At any rate, that meant that I got my text-to-speech program to work. I also worked on making my Scenic GUI prettier and created a Scenic logo.
On Friday, we met with Magda for our weekly meeting. She liked how I had made Scenic look and said that it was good that I had moved to working on the Notifier program instead of being stuck without Evan.