John Scipione 60ba75c5ec Add a scientific mode to Deskcalc.
Deskcalc already contains support for all the functions in scientific mode
but up until now you had to know what they were called and type them in to
figure them out. Scientific mode gives you access to most of the available
functions via buttons.

Pushing one of the the scientific mode buttons inserts the function name
along with an innertube () at the current cursor location. If you have some
text highlighted when you push a scientific mode button it will put that
text inside the innertube. So you can type 0.5, then highlight the text with
the mouse, and then push the sin button and you will get sin(0.5).

The contextual menu has been altered to support the new mode.
Instead of having a single show keypad option in the contextual menu there
are 3 new options instead. Compact mode, Basic mode, and Scientific mode.
Basic mode is the default mode showing the basic keypad. Compact mode is the
same as show keypad turned off, showing just a bare text field. Scientific
mode is the new mode which adds buttons for the different transcendental
functions and constants that Deskcalc supports. You can also use Alt+0, Alt+1,
and Alt+2 keyboard modifiers to switch between the modes.

In addition to accepting the word 'pi' for the circumference of the unit
circle, Deskcalc now also recognizes the UTF-8 character π which has a
dedicated button in scientific mode. I also changed the parser so that
lowercase 'e' always means Euler's number and uppercase 'E' always means
'times 10 to the' so 1E5 means 1 times 10 to the 5th.

Another small tweak I did was to adjust the minimum basic mode width so that
the window is flush with the tab.

I also renamed fColums to fColumns, took out some spaces and other style
changes and bumped the version to 2.2.0.

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Building Haiku from source
==========================

This is a overview into the process of building HAIKU from source.
An online version is available at http://www.haiku-os.org/guides/building/

Official releases of Haiku are at http://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku
The (unstable) nightly builds are available at http://www.haiku-files.org

To build Haiku, you will need to
 * ensure pre-requisite software is installed
 * download sources
 * configure your build
 * run jam to initiate the build process

We currently support these platforms:
 * Haiku
 * Linux
 * FreeBSD
 * Mac OS X Intel

Pre-requisite software
======================

Tools provided within Haiku's repositories

 * Jam (Jam 2.5-haiku-20090626)
 * Haiku's cross-compiler (needed only for non-Haiku platforms)

The tools to compile Haiku will vary, depending on the platform that you are
using to build Haiku. When building from Haiku, all of the necessary
development tools are included in official releases (e.g. R1 alpha 1) and in the
(unstable) nightly builds.

 * Subversion client
 * SSH client (for developers with commit access)
 * gcc and the binutils (as, ld, etc., required by gcc)
 * make (GNU make)
 * bison
 * flex and lex (usually a mini shell script invoking flex)
 * makeinfo (part of texinfo, needed for building gcc 4 only)
 * autoheader (part of autoconf, needed for building gcc)
 * automake
 * gawk
 * yasm (http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/wiki/Download)
 * wget
 * (un)zip
 * cdrtools (not genisoimage!)
 * case-sensitive file system

Whether they are installed can be tested for instance by running them in the
shell with the "--version" parameter.

Specific: Haiku for the ARM platform
------------------------------------

The following tools are needed to compile Haiku for the ARM platform

 * mkimage (http://www.denx.de/wiki/UBoot)
 * Mtools (http://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/intro.html)
 * sfdisk

Specific: Mac OS X
------------------

Disk Utility can create a case-sensitive disk image of at least 3 GiB in size.
The following darwin ports need to be installed:
 * expat
 * gawk
 * gettext
 * libiconv
 * gnuregex
 * gsed

More information about individual distributions of Linux and BSD can be found
at http://haiku-os.org/guides/building/pre-reqs


Download Haiku's sources
========================

There are two parts to Haiku's sources -- the code for Haiku itself and a set
of build tools for compiling Haiku on an operating system other than Haiku.
The buildtools are needed only for non-Haiku platform.

Anonymous checkout:
  svn co http://svn.haiku-os.org/haiku/haiku/trunk haiku
  svn co http://svn.haiku-os.org/haiku/buildtools/trunk buildtools

Developer with commit access:
  svn co svn+ssh://<developer-account>@svn.haiku-os.org/srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk haiku
  svn co svn+ssh://<developer-account>@svn.haiku-os.org/srv/svn/repos/haiku/buildtools/trunk buildtools


Building the Jam executable
===========================

This step applies only to non-Haiku platforms.

Change to the buildtools folder and we will start to build 'jam' which is a
requirement for building Haiku. Run the following commands to generate and
install the tool:

  cd  buildtools/jam
  make
  sudo ./jam0 install
    -- or --
  ./jam0 -sBINDIR=$HOME/bin install


Configuring your build
======================

The configure script generates a file named "BuildConfig" in the
"generated/build" directory. As long as configure is not modified (!), there
is no need to call it again. That is for re-building you only need to invoke
jam (see below). If you don't update the source tree very frequently, you may
want to execute 'configure' after each update just to be on the safe side.

Depending on your goal, there are several different ways to configure Haiku.
You can either call configure from within your Haiku trunk folder. That will
prepare a folder named 'generated', which will contain the compiled objects.
Another option is to manually created one or more 'generated.*' folders and run
configure from within them. For example imagine the following directory setup

  buildtools-trunk/
  haiku-trunk/
  haiku-trunk/generated.x86gcc2
  haiku-trunk/generated.x86gcc4

Configure a GCC 2.95 Hybrid, from non-Haiku platform
----------------------------------------------------

  cd haiku-trunk/generated.x86gcc4
  ../configure --use-gcc-pipe --use-xattr \
    --build-cross-tools-gcc4 x86 ../../buildtools/ \
    --alternative-gcc-output-dir ../generated.x86gcc2
  cd ../generated.x86gcc2
  ../configure --use-gcc-pipe --use-xattr \
    --build-cross-tools ../../buildtools/ \
    --alternative-gcc-output-dir ../generated.x86gcc4

Configure a GCC 2.95 Hybrid, from within Haiku
----------------------------------------------

  cd haiku-trunk/generated.x86gcc4
  ../configure --use-gcc-pipe \
    --alternative-gcc-output-dir ../generated.x86gcc2 \
    --cross-tools-prefix /boot/develop/abi/x86/gcc4/tools/current/bin/
  cd ../generated.x86gcc2
  ../configure --use-gcc-pipe \
    --alternative-gcc-output-dir ../generated.x86gcc4 \
    --cross-tools-prefix /boot/develop/abi/x86/gcc2/tools/current/bin/

Additional information about GCC Hybrids can be found on the website,
http://www.haiku-os.org/guides/building/gcc-hybrid

Configure options
-----------------

The various runtime options for configure are documented in it's onscreen help

  ./configure --help


Building via Jam
================

Haiku can be built in either of two ways, as disk image file (e.g. for use
with emulators, to be written directly to a usb stick, burned as a compact
disc) or as installation in a directory.

Running Jam
-----------

There are various ways in which you can run jam.

 * If you have a single generated folder,
   you can run 'jam' from the top level of Haiku's trunk.
 * If you have one or more generated folders,
   (e.g. generated.x86gcc2), you can cd into that directory and run 'jam'
 * In either case, you can cd into a certain folder in the source tree (e.g.
   src/apps/debugger) and run jam -sHAIKU_OUTPUT_DIR=<path to generated folder>

Be sure to read build/jam/UserBuildConfig.ReadMe and UserBuildConfig.sample,
as they contain information on customizing your build of Haiku.

Building a Haiku anyboot file
---------------------------

  jam -q haiku-anyboot-image

This generates an image file named 'haiku-anyboot.image' in your output
directory under 'generated/'.

Building a VMware image file
----------------------------

  jam -q haiku-vmware-image

This generates an image file named 'haiku.vmdk' in your output
directory under 'generated/'.

Directory Installation
----------------------

  HAIKU_INSTALL_DIR=/Haiku jam -q install-haiku

Installs all Haiku components into the volume mounted at "/Haiku" and
automatically marks it as bootable. To create a partition in the first place
use DriveSetup and initialize it to BFS.

Note that installing Haiku in a directory only works as expected under Haiku,
but it is not yet supported under Linux and other non-Haiku platforms.

Building individual components
------------------------------

If you don't want to build the complete Haiku, but only a certain
app/driver/etc. you can specify it as argument to jam, e.g.:

  jam Debugger

Alternatively, you can 'cd' to the directory of the component you want to
build and run 'jam' from there. Note: if your generated directory named
something other than "generated/", you will need to tell jam where it is.

  jam -sHAIKU_OUTPUT_DIR=<path to generated folder>

You can also force rebuilding of a component by using the "-a" parameter:

  jam -a Debugger


Running
=======

Generally there are two ways of running Haiku. On real hardware using a
partition and on emulated hardware using an emulator like Bochs or QEMU.

On Real Hardware
----------------

If you have installed Haiku to its own partition you can include this
partition in your bootmanager and try to boot Haiku like any other OS you
have installed. To include a new partition in the Haiku bootmanager run this
in a Terminal:

  bootman

On Emulated Hardware
--------------------

For emulated hardware you should build disk image (see above). How to setup
this image depends on your emulater. If you use QEMU, you can usually just
provide the path to the image as command line argument to the "qemu"
executable.


Docbook documentation
=====================

Our documentation can be found in 'src/documentation/'. You can build it by
running 'jam' in that folder. The results will be stored in the 'generated/'
folder.
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