[Bf-funboard] Reorganising the buttons

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

There's an important issue still, and that's if we stick with fixed =20
sizes of the Panels. To enable both vertical and horizontal layout =20
aligning nicely.

My proposal would be to have a standard horizontal layout first, =20
divided in 4 panels of 320 width. This then will give compatibility =20
with older releases, and allows a nice vertical layout too.

If really needed, we can make a fifth/sixth panel by default 'tabbed' =20=

in an other one.

For your version, you only have to put the 'Other' panel in the =20
remaining panels...

- "Extensions" belongs in in the first Panel
- "Play animation" as well
- "dispwin" and "dispview" should be in "Render" panel
- "Rt" is a debug button for coders only... put it somewhere!

Then:
- What is the "Save animation" option?
- anti and mblur remain using 5-8-11-16 samples, no slider
- I can live with renaming OSA into "Antialiasing, but I'd like to hear =20=

others about it. It's a bit history here you know! :)
- "Play Rendered" can remain "Play" (it plays anything, also not =20
rendered). Tooltips should be used to explain further info, a button =20
name is a reminder.
- title for first panel is incorrect

Design:
It looks like you used the "uiAutoBlock" function, which spreads =20
buttons out in a box. This doesnt always give good design... things =20
that belong together can be put together.
Inside a Panel, the order of buttons seems not to be logical...

(BTW: i think uiAutoBlock has a bug, it flips vertical sometimes... I =20=

look at this)

-Ton-


On Sunday, Oct 5, 2003, at 15:40 Europe/Amsterdam, William Reynish =20
wrote:

> I have tried to reorganise the renderbuttons window to show how you =20=

> could have organised in a more logical way. I think Blender would be =20=

> alot=A0easier to learn if all the buttonwindows=A0were organised =
roughly =20
> like this. This is a photoshop mock-up:
> =A0
> http://www.shadeless.dk/renderbuttons.jpg
> =A0
> Please comment!=A0 Throw you two cents in!
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