[ptx] An introduction

[Rob Park]

On 5/26/05, Tijmen <mailinglists at mail.iivq.net> wrote:
> I am Tijmen (aka IIVQ) and I live in Belgium (but I am and speak Dutch)

Hi Tijmen. You'll know me as Feztaa from the UER forums, just thought
I'd point that out because I wasn't sure if you'd recognize my real
name or not.

> I am very satisfied with the results, but a little less satisfied with the
> program of hugin itself: A lot of the more technical interface elements
> themselves are abacadabra to the beginner, and it crashed continuously.

I agree, hugin is in an early stage of development and is still very
rough around the edges.

> That being said, I am willing to help in developing the GUI and program. I
> don't know anything about C but am fairly good in Java and I have had (and
> passed with good result) some HCI courses in my study of Knowledge
> Engeneering.

Well, Hugin's GUI is created using wxWidgets, but more specifically
with XRC, which is a neat technology allowing for the interface to be
defined using XML. You can read about it here:

http://www.wxwidgets.org/manuals/2.5.2/wx_xrcoverview.html

And wxwidgets.org for more general information about wxwidgets itself.

> I have one question: Is this a general "tools for making panorama's" list, or
> does it specify on hugin, autopano and emblend (or other tools as well)?

I think it's meant to be a general list for discussing software
involved in panorama creation, but it tends to be a development list
for hugin, and autopano-sift, in my observation ;)

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