Progress!

I am happy to report that I have made significant progress on the client. There are still a couple of bugs that I am working on, but I expect that they will be worked out very shortly. So for now, the client will connect to devices, and I have also added the core functionality from my backend scripts, including save, restoring, and initializing. The client is a little bit ugly right now, but fixes will come after I get the functionality bugs worked out.

The primary bug I am fixing is that the client does not always exit properly; that is to say, even though the window is closed, the client still seems to be running in the background. I am going to work a way to ensure that clicking that 'x' button on the client sends the proper exit signals to the program.

The second major bug is sometimes the client gets stuck sending the different telnet sessions to the tabs, and sometimes sends the same session to some multiple tabs. With some pointers from some guys in a Perl chatroom, the faulty lines of code have been identified, and I am working on a fix.

The hackathon is this Saturday, which is basically a 12 hour codefest. I will be working on this project the entire time, with the primary goal of fixing the above two mentioned bugs. After, I will work towards improving the looks of the client. I am hoping to make significant progress at that event, and will blog after, or perhaps during it.

I will also be giving my first presentation to the RCOS on this Friday, March 4th. The slides which I present will appear in my repository after my talk.