Getting up and running with Valentina

1

Hi there,

My bride is a dress-maker and I am myself a developer. I’d like to help her by contributing to Valentina.

Do you have advice regarding how to get up and running with Valentina codebase? I am experienced with Java, far less with C++ and QT, so if you have good tutorials in French or in English, please share them.

What are the classes that I should look first? Is there a recommended IDE? I plan to use QT creator (indeed).

Regards,

Pierre

La vie est source de joie, la mort est source de paix, seule la transition est difficile.

2

Here are two other authors of patternmaking books I can recommend:

  1. Winifred Aldrich
  2. Lori A. Knowles

Winifred Aldrich’s books are excellent, there are no mistakes in her books (unlike Helen Joseph Armstrong and Connie Almaden Crawford), the patterns work as described. But she includes 1cm seam allowances in her formulas – you may have to adjust to adjust the formulas to remove the seam allowances as Valentina will add seam allowances for you.

Lori A. Knowles’s books are excellent, no mistakes, easy to understand and her books are spiral bound to make it easy to work with them. She has a large number of patterns included in each of her books (one for women’s garments, one for men’s).

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Hi Pierre,

Do you have advice regarding how to get up and running with Valentina

codebase? I am experienced with Java, far less with C++ and QT, so if you have good tutorials in French or in English, please share them. What are the classes that I should look first? Is there a recommended IDE? I plan to use QT creator (indeed).

Yes, some information we have. :slight_smile:

Look here:

  1. Our WIKI https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/wiki/Home. You can fix text if you will find errors. See page for developers https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/wiki/developers/Welcome
  2. We use doxygen for generation documentation. Also available online version http://valentinaproject.bitbucket.org/documentation/index.html (need update). You can create your version. On Linux very easy. But documentation doesn’t cover all classes and not very good. Good documentation big task.
  3. Two articles http://valentinaproject.bitbucket.org/articles/content.html about algorithms i used.
  4. See our Issue Tracker https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/issues?status=new&status=open for available task.
  5. If you don’t know how use mercurial spend some time and read this book http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/ online. Also i recommend use TortoiseHg.
  6. Ask here if you have question.
  7. You can help translate Valentina here https://www.transifex.com/organization/valentina/dashboard/valentina-021 .

I use Ubuntu 14.04 and Qt Creator.On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 6:42:13 PM UTC+3, Zala Pierre GOUPIL wrote:

Hi there,

My bride is a dress-maker and I am myself a developer. I’d like to help her by contributing to Valentina.

Do you have advice regarding how to get up and running with Valentina codebase? I am experienced with Java, far less with C++ and QT, so if you have good tutorials in French or in English, please share them.

What are the classes that I should look first? Is there a recommended IDE? I plan to use QT creator (indeed).

Regards,

Pierre

– La vie est source de joie, la mort est source de paix, seule la transition est difficile.

4

Thanks, man! Are there any good books I could read in order to learn the pattern-making basis? My bride can teach me, but she herself learned on the job, maybe a book could give me a more precise knowledge.

Regards,

PierreOn Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:57 PM, dismine dismine@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Pierre,

Do you have advice regarding how to get up and running with Valentina

codebase? I am experienced with Java, far less with C++ and QT, so if you have good tutorials in French or in English, please share them. What are the classes that I should look first? Is there a recommended IDE? I plan to use QT creator (indeed).

Yes, some information we have. :slight_smile:

Look here:

  1. Our WIKI https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/wiki/Home. You can fix text if you will find errors. See page for developers https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/wiki/developers/Welcome
  2. We use doxygen for generation documentation. Also available online version http://valentinaproject.bitbucket.org/documentation/index.html (need update). You can create your version. On Linux very easy. But documentation doesn’t cover all classes and not very good. Good documentation big task.
  3. Two articles http://valentinaproject.bitbucket.org/articles/content.html about algorithms i used.
  4. See our Issue Tracker https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/issues?status=new&status=open for available task.
  5. If you don’t know how use mercurial spend some time and read this book http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/ online. Also i recommend use TortoiseHg.
  6. Ask here if you have question.
  7. You can help translate Valentina here https://www.transifex.com/organization/valentina/dashboard/valentina-021 .

I use Ubuntu 14.04 and Qt Creator.

On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 6:42:13 PM UTC+3, Zala Pierre GOUPIL wrote:

Hi there,

My bride is a dress-maker and I am myself a developer. I’d like to help her by contributing to Valentina.

Do you have advice regarding how to get up and running with Valentina codebase? I am experienced with Java, far less with C++ and QT, so if you have good tutorials in French or in English, please share them.

What are the classes that I should look first? Is there a recommended IDE? I plan to use QT creator (indeed).

Regards,

Pierre

– La vie est source de joie, la mort est source de paix, seule la transition est difficile.

– You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups “Valentina-project list” group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to valentina-project-list+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to valentina-project-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/valentina-project-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

La vie est source de joie, la mort est source de paix, seule la transition est difficile.

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Try this https://www.transifex.com/organization/valentina/dashboard.On Thursday, July 10, 2014 7:56:58 PM UTC+3, Zala Pierre GOUPIL wrote:

By the way, I’ve created an account on transifex but your link is broken.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Pierre Goupil wrote:

Thanks, man! Are there any good books I could read in order to learn the pattern-making basis? My bride can teach me, but she herself learned on the job, maybe a book could give me a more precise knowledge.

Regards,

Pierre

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:57 PM, dismine wrote:

Hi Pierre,

Do you have advice regarding how to get up and running with Valentina

codebase? I am experienced with Java, far less with C++ and QT, so if you have good tutorials in French or in English, please share them. What are the classes that I should look first? Is there a recommended IDE? I plan to use QT creator (indeed).

Yes, some information we have. :slight_smile:

Look here:

  1. Our WIKI https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/wiki/Home. You can fix text if you will find errors. See page for developers https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/wiki/developers/Welcome
  2. We use doxygen for generation documentation. Also available online version http://valentinaproject.bitbucket.org/documentation/index.html (need update). You can create your version. On Linux very easy. But documentation doesn’t cover all classes and not very good. Good documentation big task.
  3. Two articles http://valentinaproject.bitbucket.org/articles/content.html about algorithms i used.
  4. See our Issue Tracker https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/issues?status=new&status=open for available task.
  5. If you don’t know how use mercurial spend some time and read this book http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/ online. Also i recommend use TortoiseHg.
  6. Ask here if you have question.
  7. You can help translate Valentina here https://www.transifex.com/organization/valentina/dashboard/valentina-021 .

I use Ubuntu 14.04 and Qt Creator.

On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 6:42:13 PM UTC+3, Zala Pierre GOUPIL wrote:

Hi there,

My bride is a dress-maker and I am myself a developer. I’d like to help her by contributing to Valentina.

Do you have advice regarding how to get up and running with Valentina codebase? I am experienced with Java, far less with C++ and QT, so if you have good tutorials in French or in English, please share them.

What are the classes that I should look first? Is there a recommended IDE? I plan to use QT creator (indeed).

Regards,

Pierre

– La vie est source de joie, la mort est source de paix, seule la transition est difficile.

– La vie est source de joie, la mort est source de paix, seule la transition est difficile.

– La vie est source de joie, la mort est source de paix, seule la transition est difficile.

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Thank you very much! That’s a lot to read but hopefully I’ll manage to do it.

Kind regards,

PierreOn Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 4:47 AM, Susan Spencer susan.spencer@gmail.com wrote:

Here are just a few suggestions by author/school. The books by the authors/school in this list are in English, but there should be some good reference books in your language. bookfinder4u.com is a good way to find books.

  1. Bunka (This Japanese fashion school publishes in Japanese & English)
  2. Helen Joseph Armstrong
  3. Jack Handford
  4. Connie Amaden-Crawford
  5. Ernestine Kopp

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:38 PM, dismine dismine@gmail.com wrote:

Yes, it is good idea. But unfortunately i can’t help. I use russian books and mom if something need. But book will be useful for me too. I will learn more english terms. Maybe Susan can help. But even so, you already can help. No need know something special we have bunch usual for programmer work what must to be done.

On Thursday, July 10, 2014 7:42:53 PM UTC+3, Zala Pierre GOUPIL wrote:

Thanks, man! Are there any good books I could read in order to learn the pattern-making basis? My bride can teach me, but she herself learned on the job, maybe a book could give me a more precise knowledge.

Regards,

Pierre

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:57 PM, dismine wrote:

Hi Pierre,

Do you have advice regarding how to get up and running with Valentina

codebase? I am experienced with Java, far less with C++ and QT, so if you have good tutorials in French or in English, please share them. What are the classes that I should look first? Is there a recommended IDE? I plan to use QT creator (indeed).

Yes, some information we have. :slight_smile:

Look here:

  1. Our WIKI https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/wiki/Home. You can fix text if you will find errors. See page for developers https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/wiki/developers/Welcome https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/wiki/developers/Welcome
  2. We use doxygen for generation documentation. Also available online version http://valentinaproject.bitbucket.org/documentation/index.html (need update). You can create your version. On Linux very easy. But documentation doesn’t cover all classes and not very good. Good documentation big task.
  3. Two articles http://valentinaproject.bitbucket.org/articles/content.html about algorithms i used.
  4. See our Issue Tracker https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/issues?status=new&status=open for available task.
  5. If you don’t know how use mercurial spend some time and read this book http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/ online. Also i recommend use TortoiseHg.
  6. Ask here if you have question.
  7. You can help translate Valentina here https://www.transifex.com/organization/valentina/dashboard/valentina-021 .

I use Ubuntu 14.04 and Qt Creator.

On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 6:42:13 PM UTC+3, Zala Pierre GOUPIL wrote:

Hi there,

My bride is a dress-maker and I am myself a developer. I’d like to help her by contributing to Valentina.

Do you have advice regarding how to get up and running with Valentina codebase? I am experienced with Java, far less with C++ and QT, so if you have good tutorials in French or in English, please share them.

What are the classes that I should look first? Is there a recommended IDE? I plan to use QT creator (indeed).

Regards,

Pierre

– La vie est source de joie, la mort est source de paix, seule la transition est difficile.

– La vie est source de joie, la mort est source de paix, seule la transition est difficile.

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La vie est source de joie, la mort est source de paix, seule la transition est difficile.

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Here are just a few suggestions by author/school. The books by the authors/school in this list are in English, but there should be some good reference books in your language. bookfinder4u.com is a good way to find books.

  1. Bunka (This Japanese fashion school publishes in Japanese & English)
  2. Helen Joseph Armstrong
  3. Jack Handford
  4. Connie Amaden-Crawford
  5. Ernestine KoppOn Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:38 PM, dismine dismine@gmail.com wrote:

Yes, it is good idea. But unfortunately i can’t help. I use russian books and mom if something need. But book will be useful for me too. I will learn more english terms. Maybe Susan can help. But even so, you already can help. No need know something special we have bunch usual for programmer work what must to be done.

On Thursday, July 10, 2014 7:42:53 PM UTC+3, Zala Pierre GOUPIL wrote:

Thanks, man! Are there any good books I could read in order to learn the pattern-making basis? My bride can teach me, but she herself learned on the job, maybe a book could give me a more precise knowledge.

Regards,

Pierre

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:57 PM, dismine wrote:

Hi Pierre,

Do you have advice regarding how to get up and running with Valentina

codebase? I am experienced with Java, far less with C++ and QT, so if you have good tutorials in French or in English, please share them. What are the classes that I should look first? Is there a recommended IDE? I plan to use QT creator (indeed).

Yes, some information we have. :slight_smile:

Look here:

  1. Our WIKI https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/wiki/Home. You can fix text if you will find errors. See page for developers https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/wiki/developers/Welcome https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/wiki/developers/Welcome
  2. We use doxygen for generation documentation. Also available online version http://valentinaproject.bitbucket.org/documentation/index.html (need update). You can create your version. On Linux very easy. But documentation doesn’t cover all classes and not very good. Good documentation big task.
  3. Two articles http://valentinaproject.bitbucket.org/articles/content.html about algorithms i used.
  4. See our Issue Tracker https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/issues?status=new&status=open for available task.
  5. If you don’t know how use mercurial spend some time and read this book http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/ online. Also i recommend use TortoiseHg.
  6. Ask here if you have question.
  7. You can help translate Valentina here https://www.transifex.com/organization/valentina/dashboard/valentina-021 .

I use Ubuntu 14.04 and Qt Creator.

On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 6:42:13 PM UTC+3, Zala Pierre GOUPIL wrote:

Hi there,

My bride is a dress-maker and I am myself a developer. I’d like to help her by contributing to Valentina.

Do you have advice regarding how to get up and running with Valentina codebase? I am experienced with Java, far less with C++ and QT, so if you have good tutorials in French or in English, please share them.

What are the classes that I should look first? Is there a recommended IDE? I plan to use QT creator (indeed).

Regards,

Pierre

– La vie est source de joie, la mort est source de paix, seule la transition est difficile.

– La vie est source de joie, la mort est source de paix, seule la transition est difficile.

– You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups “Valentina-project list” group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to valentina-project-list+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to valentina-project-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/valentina-project-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

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OK, thanks again!On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 6:55 PM, susan.spencer susan.spencer@gmail.com wrote:

Here are two other authors of patternmaking books I can recommend:

  1. Winifred Aldrich
  2. Lori A. Knowles

Winifred Aldrich’s books are excellent, there are no mistakes in her books (unlike Helen Joseph Armstrong and Connie Almaden Crawford), the patterns work as described. But she includes 1cm seam allowances in her formulas – you may have to adjust to adjust the formulas to remove the seam allowances as Valentina will add seam allowances for you.

Lori A. Knowles’s books are excellent, no mistakes, easy to understand and her books are spiral bound to make it easy to work with them. She has a large number of patterns included in each of her books (one for women’s garments, one for men’s).

– You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups “Valentina-project list” group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to valentina-project-list+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to valentina-project-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/valentina-project-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

La vie est source de joie, la mort est source de paix, seule la transition est difficile.

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Here is the correct link for translations:

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By the way, I’ve created an account on transifex but your link is broken.On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Pierre Goupil goupilpierre@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks, man! Are there any good books I could read in order to learn the pattern-making basis? My bride can teach me, but she herself learned on the job, maybe a book could give me a more precise knowledge.

Regards,

Pierre

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:57 PM, dismine dismine@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Pierre,

Do you have advice regarding how to get up and running with Valentina

codebase? I am experienced with Java, far less with C++ and QT, so if you have good tutorials in French or in English, please share them. What are the classes that I should look first? Is there a recommended IDE? I plan to use QT creator (indeed).

Yes, some information we have. :slight_smile:

Look here:

  1. Our WIKI https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/wiki/Home. You can fix text if you will find errors. See page for developers https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/wiki/developers/Welcome
  2. We use doxygen for generation documentation. Also available online version http://valentinaproject.bitbucket.org/documentation/index.html (need update). You can create your version. On Linux very easy. But documentation doesn’t cover all classes and not very good. Good documentation big task.
  3. Two articles http://valentinaproject.bitbucket.org/articles/content.html about algorithms i used.
  4. See our Issue Tracker https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/issues?status=new&status=open for available task.
  5. If you don’t know how use mercurial spend some time and read this book http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/ online. Also i recommend use TortoiseHg.
  6. Ask here if you have question.
  7. You can help translate Valentina here https://www.transifex.com/organization/valentina/dashboard/valentina-021 .

I use Ubuntu 14.04 and Qt Creator.

On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 6:42:13 PM UTC+3, Zala Pierre GOUPIL wrote:

Hi there,

My bride is a dress-maker and I am myself a developer. I’d like to help her by contributing to Valentina.

Do you have advice regarding how to get up and running with Valentina codebase? I am experienced with Java, far less with C++ and QT, so if you have good tutorials in French or in English, please share them.

What are the classes that I should look first? Is there a recommended IDE? I plan to use QT creator (indeed).

Regards,

Pierre

– La vie est source de joie, la mort est source de paix, seule la transition est difficile.

– You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups “Valentina-project list” group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to valentina-project-list+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to valentina-project-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/valentina-project-list . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

– La vie est source de joie, la mort est source de paix, seule la transition est difficile.

La vie est source de joie, la mort est source de paix, seule la transition est difficile.

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Yes, it is good idea. But unfortunately i can’t help. I use russian books and mom if something need. But book will be useful for me too. I will learn more english terms. Maybe Susan can help. But even so, you already can help. No need know something special we have bunch usual for programmer work what must to be done.On Thursday, July 10, 2014 7:42:53 PM UTC+3, Zala Pierre GOUPIL wrote:

Thanks, man! Are there any good books I could read in order to learn the pattern-making basis? My bride can teach me, but she herself learned on the job, maybe a book could give me a more precise knowledge.

Regards,

Pierre

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:57 PM, dismine wrote:

Hi Pierre,

Do you have advice regarding how to get up and running with Valentina

codebase? I am experienced with Java, far less with C++ and QT, so if you have good tutorials in French or in English, please share them. What are the classes that I should look first? Is there a recommended IDE? I plan to use QT creator (indeed).

Yes, some information we have. :slight_smile:

Look here:

  1. Our WIKI https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/wiki/Home. You can fix text if you will find errors. See page for developers https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/wiki/developers/Welcome
  2. We use doxygen for generation documentation. Also available online version http://valentinaproject.bitbucket.org/documentation/index.html (need update). You can create your version. On Linux very easy. But documentation doesn’t cover all classes and not very good. Good documentation big task.
  3. Two articles http://valentinaproject.bitbucket.org/articles/content.html about algorithms i used.
  4. See our Issue Tracker https://bitbucket.org/valentinateam/valentina/issues?status=new&status=open for available task.
  5. If you don’t know how use mercurial spend some time and read this book http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/ online. Also i recommend use TortoiseHg.
  6. Ask here if you have question.
  7. You can help translate Valentina here https://www.transifex.com/organization/valentina/dashboard/valentina-021 .

I use Ubuntu 14.04 and Qt Creator.

On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 6:42:13 PM UTC+3, Zala Pierre GOUPIL wrote:

Hi there,

My bride is a dress-maker and I am myself a developer. I’d like to help her by contributing to Valentina.

Do you have advice regarding how to get up and running with Valentina codebase? I am experienced with Java, far less with C++ and QT, so if you have good tutorials in French or in English, please share them.

What are the classes that I should look first? Is there a recommended IDE? I plan to use QT creator (indeed).

Regards,

Pierre

– La vie est source de joie, la mort est source de paix, seule la transition est difficile.

– La vie est source de joie, la mort est source de paix, seule la transition est difficile.