[ptx] thoughts for hugin UI, post 0.5

[douglas wilkins]

--- Rob Park <rbpark at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/26/05, douglas wilkins <dgswilkins at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > They are not easy to find. What reccommendations are you struggling with.
> 
> Specifically:
> 
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/controls-frames.html

I'll look at this

> 
> Now it says that use of GtkFrame is essentially deprecated, that we
> should use bolded labels and spacing instead of border lines around
> stuff.
> 
> My problem is that I don't know what widgets to use in order to
> accomplish this. if I use tables inside of GtkFrames, can I tell the
> GtkFrame not to draw the border? If so, that's great, but then how do
> I keep all the different tables aligned with each other (since the
> labels on the left and the widgets on the right need to be aligned all
> the way through the window, not just each frame). If NOT, then i
> attempted to create a layout that used one big table all the way
> through, and that did a good job of keeping everything aligned, but it
> seemed like a messy solution, had other bad side effects, and felt
> reminiscient of using tables for website layout in HTML 3.2 days (eg,
> ugly, ugly code).

very ugly. I'll try to duplicate the look of your latest prototype with wx and
send the xrc file to give you an idea.

> 
> I mean, I read the HIG and I have a good idea of what the UI should
> look and act like, but I just don't have a clue what widgets I should
> be using, and how to use them, in order to effect this.
> 
> > Perhaps we need to add an "horizon offset" adjustment in the preview?
> 
> Anything to make the preview (and the output) have less
> black/transparent space around it. Show only the panorama itself and
> none of the emptiness around it.
> 
> What I mean is, if you add a "horizon offset", then you need to make
> sure that the "Center" button automatically sets that setting so that
> the preview is perfectly cropped to what the panorama is.

I need to look at the code for the "center" function. It should be possible to
do this.

regards,
Doug



	
	
		
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