2 This directory contains the Bacula Admin Tool (bat).
4 At the current time, the contents of this directory are under
5 development. If you want to help, please contact Kern directly.
6 If you want to build it, you need Qt4 loaded and setup as your
7 default Qt or with the appropriate Qt Environment variables set.
10 There is now one dependancy, it is qwt. It compiles just fine with
11 either qwt-5.0.2 or qwt-5.0.1. If you run the command
13 ./build-depkgs-qt-console
15 It should download and run the appropriate commands to build and install qwt
16 for you. The script will download the package into a subdirectory named
17 depkgs. Then it will configure, make and install qwt. The installation will
18 go into a subdirectory named qwt in the main qt-console directory.
20 To build bat, you simply enter:
29 The qmake command needs to be entered only if you add a new file, in
30 which case, you should edit bat.pro.in and add the new filename
31 in the appropriate place. In running qmake, it will build a new
32 Makefile, and there after, you simply use "make". In fact, providing
33 you edit bat.pro, doing a "make" will automatically call qmake to
36 From the base bacula directory, make Makefiles will generate bat.pro from
37 bat.pro.in, so only edit bat.pro.in. It will also overwrite the qt-consoles
38 bat.conf file. "make install" will write /etc/bacula/bat.conf. bat.conf can
39 include as many director stanza's as you would like in bat.conf. You may use
40 this directories bat.conf.example as a template for director stanza's.
42 Win32 mingw infos for QT4 :
44 - http://doc.qtfr.org/post/2007/04/10/Cross-Compilation-Native-dapplication-Qt-depuis-Linux
46 Development status as of 05/06/07
48 Items not implemented:
49 - Nothing on the brestore page
52 - If possible all code for a particular component will be kept in
53 an appropriate subdirectory.
54 - All private class variables are named "m_xxx" this makes it very
55 clear if one is referencing a class variable or a local.
56 - All signal/slots are connected by explict code (most all are
57 done in the MainWin constructor), rather than using designer.
58 - Each page has a separate designer .ui file in a subdirectory.
59 - All windows are created with designer and have
60 a name such as xxxForm i.e. the main window is MainForm and kept
64 - Implement other restore interfaces such as brestore ...
65 - Implement a database browser
66 - Implement a resource (conf file) browser
67 - Implement a reports page -- e.g. something similar to bweb
68 - Implement Qt plugins to add new functionality to bat
69 - Implement a GUI configuration file editor (something like JBacula).
73 ===========================
74 - Implement graphical commands that allow updating most aspects of
75 the database (i.e. commands for label, update Volume, ...)
76 still need to be able to edit a pool object
78 - None of the menu items except About, Select Font, and Quit.
79 Print and save don't do anything, does save need to??
81 ============================
82 Design/implementation considerations:
83 - Need icons in front of the Director.
84 - The console page should be in a DockWidget so it can be removed
85 from the main window. It is currently in a dock window, but it
86 does not remove properly -- more research needed.
87 - Need to figure out a good implementation of adding pages and even
88 having plugins that load as pages. Currently the page mechanism
91 - We need to have multiple Directors
92 - Each Director should have its own console
93 - The Console class needs to be a list or be attached to the
94 currently active Director.
95 - Will automatically connnect to the first Director in the
96 conf file. Doesn't know about multiple Directors.
98 - The Label menu bar item, prints on the shell window what you entered.
99 - The Run menu bar item, prints on the console window what you entered.
100 - The Restore menu bar item, brings up dialog, then when OK is
101 clicked, it goes on to the next dialog, which is meant to be
102 a tree view, but for the moment does nothing ... It is a bit
103 ugly. Cancelling it should get you back to the normal command prompt.
105 - Implement a restore page that does a directory tree restore selection
106 much like wx-console does.
109 - The left selection window and the right window (where the console
110 is) are dockable windows so should be movable once they are properly
111 clicked. Well, they sort of move, but then get stuck. I haven't figured
112 out what is going on, so for the current time, I am implemeting most
113 stuff through dialogs.
116 - Reads a basic bat.conf (same as documented for the gnome-console
117 except that the Font part is unimplemented).
118 - Basic main window structure
121 - The Director name will appear in the Selection tree followed
122 by Console and Restore.
123 - Clicking on Console brings forward the console display screen
124 (default at startup).
125 - The command line is implemented.
126 - The status line (below the command line) is implemented.
127 - Selection of Font is implemented.
128 - The Font and the window size are saved on exit and restored on
130 - The Status menu bar icon is implemented.