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RAPPS Enchancements: GSoC 2017 Edition Final Report

by sanchaez

August 28, 2017

Introduction ReactOS App Manager (RAPPS) is an app used in ReactOS to download apps, tested by ReactOS team and community. It also manages apps that are installed - you can view apps that are present on your system and uninstall them. The goal of this project was to improve RAPPS and add some very useful features. Here is a video presenting it's features: Quick Links SVN branch link Unified diff as a Gist Commits Overview Table of contents Introduction Building Testing Changes made during development Application List Improvements Bulk installing Script installation Other improvements Future work Conclusions Building Building RAPPS is no different as building parts of ReactOS.

RAPPS Enchancements: GSoC 2017 Edition Volume 5

by sanchaez

July 29, 2017

It's very good when things go as planned. And they do! The BULK INSTALL is here! Let's have a look. Checkboxes are useful Now you can select a bunch of apps in the app bar. In the statusbar you can see selected app count. Selection drops when the categories are switched.   Using "Select/Deselect button" will select all apps in the current view.   Install all apps at once Pressing "

RAPPS Enchancements: GSoC 2017 Edition Volume 3 and 4

by sanchaez

July 21, 2017

Whoosh! Two weeks flew by in no time! Fortunately, I've done many things and have some screenshots to show! Before we start, I have an anouncement: I'm going to Hackfest and FroSCon this August! I may not be very useful there, but I can discuss things related to the project, meet my mentor Mark Jansen and other devs. I will also learn from the ReactOS developers and FrOSCon workshops.  

RAPPS Enchancements: GSoC 2017 Edition Volume 2.1

by sanchaez

July 6, 2017

You may wonder why this post is not labeled "Volume 3". Well, thanks to the training week of the military dept. of our university this week wasn't very productive in terms of features. Nevertheless, this short post is here to keep you updated. This week I was working on refactoring the code and improving code. This will help me progress faster and addd new feature more easily. It is not the only reason: RAPPS was initially written in C and had been converted to C++.

RAPPS Enchancements: GSoC 2017 Edition Volume 2

by sanchaez

June 29, 2017

Another week - another update! This time I worked on the license info, update checking and other improvements to my work. These changes bring up many under-the-hood changes. Dont worry, these changes may not look huge. I'm adding features and then worry about the visuals :)  But first things first. Let's have a look. Before After   Update check RAPPS can now suggest and update if the version installed is less than in the database.

RAPPS Enchancements: GSoC 2017 Edition

by sanchaez

June 24, 2017

Introduction My name is Alexander Shaposhnikov, i'm a GSOC student from Ukraine working on ReactOS App Manager (RAPPS) project. Last two weeks was extrodinary hard - university work took all the time. Fortunately it was dealt with and I'm working at full capacity. I don't like to write stories in the blog so I'll keep this blog short and informative. And with screenshots! Changes During this 3 weeks I've made some changes to visual part and to the RAPPS DB.

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