[Bf-committers] Panel auto resize bug

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Nope, the HOME key scales, and automating this will be extremely  
annoying with context switching. For example; having only 2 panels in  
view, go to editmode, and suddently have 5 panels. Or: when you  
collapse a few. Scale really has to be fixed.

The purpose is to find a method that you only once initialize the  
windows, either vertical or horizontal, and after that you should have  
no need for further 'home key' pressing. If you like buttons small,  
they stay small. When panels dont fit in the available space, you can  
use mouswheel and pageup/pagedown to view them all. Or collapse one or  
2.

-Ton-


On Sunday, Oct 19, 2003, at 11:00 Europe/Amsterdam, Luke Wenke wrote:

> Hi ton,
> As said earlier I hope there could be a full auto-align mode - where  
> you
> don't have to switch between vertical and horizontal mode and it even  
> can
> optimize the space in a square shaped window.
> In this proposal (which even deals with different sized panels, the  
> top left
> panel is always in the same position.
> http://www.blender.org/pipermail/bf-funboard/2003-October/001060.html
> BTW, as a last resort, you could just enumerate all of the layouts  
> (like I
> did with ABCDE) with their corresponding aspect ratio, then search for  
> the
> aspect ratio that is the best match with the button windows aspect  
> ratio.
> Assuming the panels are all the same size (e.g. 40x30 units) and there  
> are 5
> of them, the best match might be a 3x2 layout like this:
> ABC
> DE (left aligned - but horizontal alignment could be customizable)
> So that would be 120x60 units which mean it has an aspect ratio of  
> 2.0. The
> enumeration of different layout possibilities could be stored in the  
> RAM so
> that while you're resizing the buttons window frame the optimal layout  
> can
> be constantly shown. BTW I think the "home" key/icon command should be
> executed whenever necessary (when either the buttons window or panel  
> sizes
> change...)... it would take hardly any CPU usage - e.g. if the aspect  
> ratio
> of the current panel layout (determined earlier) was 2.0, and the  
> buttons
> window is 200 x 90 pixels, then the panel layout would be 180x90  
> pixels (it
> has to be smaller or equal to 200x90). That means the panels are  
> magnified
> by a factor of 1.5 since in their default units they're 120x60. BTW,  
> the
> automatically home key press should happen *after* the automatical  
> panel
> layout is chosen. And if panel sizes change then the layouts would  
> need to
> be recalculated. There would be a problem having animated minimizing of
> panels and auto-arranging and auto-optimizing of panels though since
> auto-arranging would usually treat the recently minimized panel as if  
> it is
> fully small when it should treat it as being gradually getting  
> smaller... (I
> favour auto-home key presses and auto-arranging over nice looking
> minimization animations) Also, as I've mentioned before, whenever I  
> start-up
> 2.29, the top of the panels are cut off and I have to press home to fix
> that.
> - Luke
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've had a lot of troubles finding a good heuristic for auto align.
>> First of all I wanted the headers to align in horizontal mode... so
>> aligning them at the top was the logical choice. Also when you switch
>> to vertical or back, the first panel stays where it is.
>>
>> Adding more constraints will increase the size of the panel. I see
>> there's an error in the align code that doesn't keep the headers
>> aligned... I will fix that.
>>
>> Of course; this type of flexible size Panel is best used in vertical
>> align mode!
>>
>> In the version in CVS I see one Constraint drawing error, which
>> disappears after redraw. I fix that.
>>
>> The align code is quite simple, and you can try some variants
>> yourself... :)
>>
>> -Ton-
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