Hi Jan,
I like what you do, please go on.
Regards,
Christian
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
Christian Lippka - Sun Microsystems Germany writes:
Hi Christian,
I very much enjoy your work for the dialog layouting on your blog[1].
Everyone interesting in user interface work for OOo should have a
look at it.
Thanks! If you read it carefully, you will have noticed that I just did
some polishing up till now, most of the job was done by Ricardo Cruz and
Michael Meeks.
I just have one minor RFE. You try to mimic the original dialog
designs as best as possible to have a proof of concept that
your layouting can replace existing OOo dialogs with ease.
Thanks, yes, for simple dialogs we already can.
I think you proofed your concept and we should start focusing
on how to improve the dialogs. And one thing I would love to
see is that the common dialog control buttons ("ok", "cancel",
"help", "previous", "next", etc. ) are not part of the layout.
Yes, that's actually quite high on the TODO list. The current idea is
to have a special kind of <HBOX> that will do the rearanging and
layouting of any Cancel/OK/Help buttons contained in it.
So the layout information should only be given for the controls
that form the client area of the dialog. But the control buttons
should just be marked as "i'm used!" and the LayoutDialog should
decide where to place them.
Yes, that's the idea.
And while I think your minimal way to layout existing dialogs
is very good, when do you think is a good time to discuss how
new dialogs should be implemented using your LayoutDialog?
I think we'll need Michael in this discussion: Michael, what do you
think?
Please keep up your good work, but don't waste to much time
making the layouted dialogs look like the ugly original dialogs :)
Thanks. As a matter of fact, I suspended most of my layout work now to
resync, update & qa the prerequisite awtfixes1 cws.
Greetings,
Jan.
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