[Clam-devel] Improving Faust usability

[Natanael Olaiz]

El 07/19/2008 05:18 AM, Pau Arumí escribió:
> On ds, 2008-07-19 at 02:30 -0300, Natanael Olaiz wrote:
>   
>> El 07/18/2008 07:16 PM, Pau Arumí escribió:
>>     
>>> I'm thinking in some changes that could make faust a bit more usable.
>>>
>>>       * Change the "gear" icon for the command shortcut, which is
>>>         repeated from the prototyper one. One idea is composing the
>>>         faust logo with a gear (i.e. the logo on the back)
>>>   
>>>       
>> Commited. I don't like it... but is something for now... Here is the 
>> original svg attached (48x48px gear.png in front, faustlogo.svg in the 
>> middle and a transparent square frame behind)
>>
>>     
>>>       * Change the compilation workflow. Now you press "compile"->
>>>         window pops up asking if you want to continue -> do stuff in the
>>>         bottom panel -> window pops up saying "finished"
>>>         
>>>         Why not: press compile -> the progress panel have a "cancel"
>>>         button -> finishes and the "cancel" button turns into a "close"
>>>         button.
>>>         
>>>         Also with a close button we could disable the timed panel exit.
>>>         Users may want to examine the console output. 
>>>   
>>>       
>> I like the idea.
>>     
>>> What do you think? Maybe dynamically adding buttons is hard? An
>>> alternative would be to have both buttons all the time but only one is
>>> enabled at a time.
>>>   
>>>       
>> I'll try it.
>>
>> BTW, I tried to dinamically add visual objects with the todo: 'search 
>> bar' on the processings tree... but the automatically generated layout 
>> is really ugly. In that cases, do you think is better to deal with that 
>> managing the layout by the code, or use an externally defined widget?
>>     
>
> I'd do it by code, using layouts. Here goes an example with a similar
> layout. It's pyqt4 but the qt usage is the same.
>
> 		self.ok = QPushButton('Choose and Close')
> 		self.cancel = QPushButton('Cancel')
> 		buttonbox = QHBoxLayout()
> 		buttonbox.addStretch(1)
> 		buttonbox.addWidget( self.cancel )
> 		buttonbox.addWidget( self.ok )
>
> 		mainbox = QVBoxLayout()
> 		mainbox.addLayout( consolewidget )
> 		mainbox.addLayout(buttonbox)
> 		self.setLayout(mainbox)
>   
Great, thanks!

I commited it (r11640):

     * TaskRunner: created a widget with a cancel/close buttons. Cancel
    terminate the actual processs, clear the queue list and returns an
    error.
     * origin.txt: added UbuntuStudio reload.svg


It uses an intermediate widget because I didn't found (yet) how to pass 
the layout size.

> Probably the hardest thing to do will be stopping the running process...
>   
Cancel clears the queue, set the error flag and do a 
QProcess::terminate(). The finished signal calls finishedCommand, that 
found an empty queue, to it finish the overall process.

> P
>
>
>   
>>> Natanael, take the task if you feel like it (or discuss the idea, of
>>> course). The functionality is already there, so no need to hurry.
>>>  
>>>       
>> No problem. But I want to, it's really annoying the timer when you want 
>> to see what happened :)
>>     
>>> P
>>>
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