@ghutchis Is this still open? Can I work on this?

Thanks, yes, it's still open - would certainly love to see some help. Do you need more tips / mentoring?

Yea, that would be really great.

Cloud you tell me where to start ?

Is this open ? I want to work on this

@Abhisharma85 yup this is open. You can work on this.

I wanna work on this issue. Please assign this to me and since I'm new to this repo so I request you to please guide me through.

hi i would love to work on it kindly assign

In this project, we do not assign issues except to indicate that a core developer is currently working on something. If you would like to start, please do. There's an example repo linked above.

@ghutchis where can I find the piece of code that saves the code on clicking save?

@ShubhamKumar977 - I'm not quite sure what you're asking. Do you want to see the example AutoSave code (see my first comment in the thread) or how Avogadro currently implements a save signal?

@ShubhamKumar977 - I'm not quite sure what you're asking. Do you want to see the example AutoSave code (see my first comment in the thread) or how Avogadro currently implements a save signal?

@ghutchis I want to know how Avogadro currently implements a save signal?

You'll either want:

Or

I would suggest saving as .cjson, e.g.
writer = new Io::CjsonFormat;

is it still open for me to work on ?

I still haven't seen a pull request, so yes.

This issue has been mentioned on Avogadro Discussion. There might be relevant details there:

https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/how-to-contribute/4569/12

The issue seems open. But it's very old, so is it open until now? @ghutchis If yes, i'd like to start working on it. The
progress would be a little slow as my exams are going on, but will sure move ahead.

@Atharva-Kanherkar - it's definitely still open. As I mention above, I'm happy to help / mentor.

@Atharva-Kanherkar - it's definitely still open. As I mention above, I'm happy to help / mentor.

Thank you! For starters, ive been understanding the codebase. I will say ill spend one or two days on understanding the code base, and then start working on this. Can you provide me some more information about how i can start, itd be much helpful:)

Until then, @ghutchis , if there are any documentation and translation tasks (I know hindi pretty well for starters) I can do it while studying the codebase.

@Atharva-Kanherkar - any work on Hindi would be greatly appreciated:
https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/avogadro/

That's all automatically synced - it will show up in avogadroapp and avogadrolibs as pull requests.

@Atharva-Kanherkar - any work on Hindi would be greatly appreciated: https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/avogadro/

That's all automatically synced - it will show up in avogadroapp and avogadrolibs as pull requests.

Sure! Ill start working.

Hi, @ghutchis. I have prepared a google doc to make a roadmap - task bar kind of thing for the future of the implementation.
Can you please review the doc and tell me if everything's correct so i start working on it? This is just a simple list of tasks id need to do.
Thank you!
Here is the link : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yA0rhWgOiO00GeKlP8gpGtTGhAV7YYryjLGmjCTkBt8/edit?usp=sharing

Hi, @ghutchis may i start working?

Sure, of course.

A few notes, since I cannot comment on that Google doc:

• For the temporary auto-save file, you will want to use https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtemporaryfile.html
• For example, here is related code that saves to a temporary file (line 78-97) https://github.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/blob/bcf2b3dcf8f7d715b8d2e5ef597a5398bf20d6b8/avogadro/qtplugins/forcefield/scriptenergy.cpp#L78
• Unlike that code, you will want to use the ".cjson" format (Io::CjsonFormat)
• There is already code for manual saves, e.g.

  avogadroapp/avogadro/mainwindow.cpp

  Line 1367 in 3456a09

  bool MainWindow::saveFile(bool async)

  and related methods

As you said, we're happy to help with advice and testing - submit a pull request and mark it as "WIP" for work in progress to get code review, run the auto builds, etc.

Hi, @ghutchis do you have any resources (videos/documentation) to brush up my knowledge of QT?

https://www.qt.io/academy
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/classes.html

In reality, I suggest you start by looking at the "SimpleAutosave" example and consider what it does.

You can also start by making sure you can build Open Chemistry.

This issue has been mentioned on Avogadro Discussion. There might be relevant details there:

https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/help-finding-teaching-materials/4993/8

@ghutchis is this still open can i work on this?

There's some work in #490 - but as far as I can tell, it mainly focuses on saving work every 5 minutes. That's great, but the important part of an auto-save is that if the program crashes, when you run again, it offers to open the auto-save files.

It also needs some sort of unique identifier if someone has multiple un-saved molecules open. At the moment, it uses the same name.

Can I still work on this?? @ghutchis