[Bf-committers] Simplified Header Stats (with icons)

[Harley Acheson]

Hello,

Since the idea of having icons at that location won't fly, I decided to
make a new patch that simply modifies the existing statistics string to
incorporate the many lessons learned in this exercise, but without using
icons.

My goal was to make it simpler, more readable, add new features, but still
keep the length within what we see now. The vertical bars are removed. I
find that those compete with the information there and can quickly look
like a number one.  Using whitespace to separate the areas does not have
the same effect.  I also added a space after each colon because that helps
the readability. It shows memory usage at all times, not just in object
mode like now.

Currently, while in Object mode the statistics are for the entire scene. So
you know how many faces there are in total, but not how many are in each
object. You can only get those by entering Edit mode.  With this change you
can see how many vertices/faces/tris comprise each object without entering
edit mode.

If the selected count is zero or equal to the total count then only the
total is shown.  So you don't see "0/213456" or "213456/213456".  Face and
triangle counts are shown when editing text objects, and you generally see
the proper information in each mode. the count of of hidden objects is now
shown.

In order for this to all fit within the same space I combined the object
count into one area with active object name.  It also shows only total
memory used (instead of current total minus memory mapped and then memory
mapped in brackets). Memory doesn't have a "Mem:" label since it is fairly
obvious what it is with "MB" behind the number.

The following image compares the current behavior against what you see with
the patch. Obviously I am hoping that you find the bottom of each pair more
readable than each top one:

http://projects.blender.org/tracker/download.php/9/127/33573/23396/StatisticsStringOnly.png


The patch is here if you want to try it:
http://projects.blender.org/tracker/download.php/9/127/33573/23397/StatisticsString.diff


Cheers, Harley