[Bf-funboard] Buttons & layout

[Gregor Mückl]

Hi!

Although such a tree view is a really nice widget for GUI design, it is wrong 
to introduce it in blender, because the space that gets eaten up by such a 
widget is unfortunately rather big. I think you would end up creating new 
windows or even real dialogues to gain the required screen space.

Blender already a lot of window types. Making that popup-menu longer won't 
solve any problems. Neither won't creating real dialogues.

I sure hope I miss an option here, because I actually believe that these could 
be a good addition to the UI (except for the surprisingly big coding effort 
that every GUI toolkit requires for these widgets).

Regards,
Gregor

Am Mittwoch, 13. August 2003 15:36 schrieb Ton Roosendaal:
> Hi,
>
> While checking on the particle plugin, I noticed the interface they use:
>
> http://www.primitiveitch.com/ppfx/docs/systemsettings.htm
>
> It's a typical example of an 'easy to code' interface, which is of
> course an important feature for plug-ins. It simply visualizes a sort
> of hierarchical list of properties, which seems to allow to be
> dynamically generated as well:
>
> http://www.primitiveitch.com/ppfx/docs/emittersettings.htm
>
> Most obvious is, that in Blender we don't have the 'hierarchical list'
> or 'tree' concept for interfaces. it's a pretty common interface
> element, which can be found in most (Windows) 3d packages I think.
>  From a coders perspective, this will quickly allow to construct
> interfaces. For users and GUI designers it might be less attractive;
> especially because of allowing coders to make a GUI! ;-)
>
> Nevertheless, interesting to look at...
>
> -Ton-
>
>
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