Hi - I've been using wikidpad for a while now - adding various
suggestions to poor Michael's todo list. I thought that I'd get off my
butt, and use Wikidpad development - as a tool for learning Python
etc. After all - if I want a change badly enough - I should be willing
to put some effort into building it.

OK - at the risk of being a burden - How do I get the source code from
the SVN repository - under Linux? (Only Windows is covered in the
Wiki). Befoe I do this - will that fact that I want to use Linux as a
development platform cause any problems to anyone else?

What's your general way of working? - create a personal branch  and
update it - and ask Michael to merge changes into the trunk when they
are stable?

So - newbie questions - I hope this isn't a problem
Thanks
Graham

On Sep 11, 7:18 pm, Graham <gandalfmeis...@gmail.com> wrote:

You can download the source code from http://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/
(currently wikidPad 2.0beta07 source code or wikidPad 1.9rc08 source
code). Extract the files to a directory in your home directory. Change
to that directory and start WikidPad with "python wikidpad". Make sure
you have python-wxgtk2.8 and python >= 2.3 installed. You don't need
the source files installed to create extensions. Starting WikidPad
from a command prompt gives you the error messages (if any) that you
need to improve your extensions.

(Only Windows is covered in the

There are some extensions that come with warnings, like
http://trac.wikidpad2.webfactional.com/wiki/CmdLineIns, but generally
I don't think that extensions would cause any harm to computers.
However, it is always a good idea to test the extensions in different
operating systems before making them public, since some python code
works in Linux and not in Windows and vice versa.

If I need a feature I develop it and use it for myself. I seldom
publish it, mostly because I'm a newbie myself and my work consists of
pretty ugly code. I look into other extensions and the WikidPad source
files to get the code I need for my extensions, modify it and then run
it from the user_extensions directory. I never ask Michael to merge it
into the source, but publishing extensions on the WikidPad wiki is
probably a good idea to encourage other users to improve.

On Sep 14, 7:37 am, StefanB <steff...@gmail.com> wrote:

Of course I mean "to encourage other users to improve _the
extensions_" ;)

Many thanks for the feedback. As I'm completely new to Python it will
probably be a while before I produce anything of value to anyone. I
guess extensions are the best way to start, but some of my ideas are
probably primarily related to the core code base.
But - small steps first...
Graham