[Bf-committers] UI layout engine

[Emmanuel Stone]

I agree that this needs to be done, I've been avoiding UI stuff for
this very reason.

I'm not sure if Alexander's was suggesting exactly this, but I would
quite like an 'idiot mode' where you can just push buttons onto a
stack in rows, that autoscale to become the panel:

e.g.

 uiBlockBeginPanel(...);

  // Row with single button taking entire width
  uiBlockBeginRow(...);
   uiBut...() ;
 uiBlockEndRow();

  // Two buttons scaled to 50% each
  uiBlockBeginRow(...);
   uiBut...();
   uiBut...() ;
 uiBlockEndRow();
uiBlockBeginPanel();

Obviously it should be able to handle other widgets too, such as
spacers and whatnot.


-Emmanuel

On 11/26/07, Martin Poirier <theeth at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Alexander Ewering <blender at instinctive.de> wrote:
>
> > To summarize:
> >
> > 1) Remove coordinates completely from uiDefBut*
> > 2) Instead, make containers which take PERCENTAGES
> > relative to parent
> >     as coordinates
> > 3) Auto-arrange buttons from uiDefBut in their
> > containers
>
> I'll add:
>
> 4) Fix the bugs with the alignment code (certain
> orders of subdivisions don't align properly).
>
> I find the 3 hours estimate a bit of a stretch though,
> unless that doesn't include porting all the old code
> to the auto-layout engine.
>
> Martin
>
>
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