[Bf-taskforce25] Work planning update

[William Reynish]

Sounds like a great todo list.

Cheers, and have fun coding!

-W


On 29 Apr, 2009, at 2:50 PM, Ton Roosendaal wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I went with Brecht over the todos for next weeks. Here's the work  
> we're
> doing now:
>
> --- Fix View2D to support layout-engine (brecht).
> This should ensure jitter-free scrolling and zoom. Also Scrollwheel
> should default to scrolling, not zoom. Zoom can be ctrl+scrollwheel or
> ctrl+MMB as usual.
> To be checked is an option to make the layout-engine split collumns
> automatically when a UI is too narrow. Another option is to use  
> minimim
> button sizes (as defined in style now) and just force the view to  
> use a
> scroller.
>
> --- Templates:
> To make porting of the more complex buttons from 2.4x feasible, the
> layout engine will support C-defined button templates which you can
> include in the UI scripts. Such templates can be small (data browser
> buttons) or be of full panel size (image linkage and properties). It
> will be especially used for buttons that have very complex handling,
> which is still beyond what Python/RNA supports at the moment.
>
> The templates can attempt to respect Layout hints, and fit nicely in
> the buttons window.
>
> Brecht will implement the basics for this, then others (incl. me) can
> help porting over the nasty old button code for it.
>
> This puts focus for UI migration on 'get things work first', before we
> move to more fancy designs and implementation of such templates. Once
> things work it's much easier to tackle that anyway.
>
> --- Screen layouts / Operators (ton)
> Better code for managing regions (drag, hide, reveil) will be added.
> Work will also continue on toolbar, tool-redo UIs. I'll also put back
> floating panel support for such experiments. Together with optional
> popups it will give us sufficient choices for further testing. Also
> here I'll first focus on validating basic operator/tools functioning
> themselves. We need asap a new list of pending operators to be ported
> for other coders too.
> Once things work on implementation level well, tests for workflow
> variations can just happily continue. Just wait a bit. :)
>
> --- Preview render (ton)
> Preview render 'widget' will be put back
>
> --- Themes/Styles (ton)
> All relevant settings will move to the UserDef. (Partially done,  
> styles
> and font files have to be added still).
>
>
>
> -Ton-
>
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