On Tue, 2 May 2006, Aaron Spike wrote:
I don't know what was contained in last night's committing spree by Ted, but IMHO the most needed addition to the autogui is an explanatory paragraph. Ted, if this isn't part of your immediate plans can you give me a few pointers so that I could try to hack it out before release?
Well, I wasn't think "explanatory paragraph", perhaps I misunderstood your previous e-mails. What I've been working on is tooltips for all the parameters in the autogui, and tooltips for the effects in the status bar. A whole paragraph sounds like a lot of screen real estate... Do you think that the two upgrade above would solve the same problem you're thinking about?
I'd like a few other opinions. The the black shell window that pops up when invoking python.exe has proven very confusing for the Wishbladers, who are representitive of our least technical users. The uninitiated often close this window and wonder why they see no effect. Would it be possible to replace a call to python.exe with a call to pythonw.exe and what would take the place of the black shell window that we currently use as a sort of progress indicator?
Well, changing what is called is a "one-liner" in script.cpp, there is a little table of how the various script types are called. That should be easy, but I'll let you make the change as I have no way to test it.
As far as a progress bar, yeah, I just haven't figured out a good way to do it. Ideally, I'd like to implement it in some way that the extension authors don't have to do it on their own. Though, they certainly could today. That wouldn't take into account other Inkscape tasks like loading and saving the document.
--Ted