2012/2/13 Stefan Steiniger <sst...@geo.uzh.ch>
> btw. Not saying that shouldn't break backward compatibility.
> However, that would be then OJ 2.0 if we are going to clean up
> everything and really seperate GUI from api etc more strict. Though.. we
> have sooo many plugins...
>
If we go through all plugins that make use of MultiInputDialog (I count 63
plugins) and
prepare them systematically by writing unit tests and list all dialog
fields as class fields,
then I think it's the matter of one single commit to convert them all for a
new api.
> A dream of mine would be to come up then with a complete new
> browser-based & HTML 5 based GUI (on Firefox?). But that's a dream, and
> would need a year of development I guess... So I rather concentrate on
> writing documentation for now.
>
HTML5 guis are a bit overrated. First we would need to build a second API
between
the JTS and OpenJUMP API (Feature, Layer, LayerManager) and the HTML5 web
application. With second API I mean a RESTful web service.
I personally think the next gen OpenJUMP "desktop" gui could look like this:
http://www.maxon.net/uploads/pics/CINEMA_4D_Screenshot4_04.jpg
(Instead of Perpective => LayerViewPanel, Objects tab => Layers tab,
Structure tab => Selection tab, Attributes tag => Feature attributes tab,
Materials view => Layer styles view.)
And we need to split the toolbar into two toolbars (main toolbar and cursor
tools toolbar)!
There could be a classic view mode, too. With the simple LayerNamePanel on
the
left side and LayerViewPanel on the right side.
--Benjamin
Am 07.02.12 01:04, schrieb Michaël Michaud:
> > Hi
> >> Now I see that AbstractMultiInputDialog is accually a new class:
> >>
> >> Here are the complete changes to MultiInputDialog as of September,
> >> 2011 (big html file):
> >>
> https://github.com/hastebrot/openjump-core-rels/commit/2cb45edcf44e4b3c4e1c3ffa29c0ab742abce77f#diff-48
> >>
> >
> > Original MultiInputDialog was quite good from my point of view,
> > but not so easy to extend and I wanted to reuse the component
> > management facilities in a MultiTabInputDialog (see the new
> > Matching plugin).
> > That's why I tried to separate the component management logic
> > (AbstractMultiInputDialog) from the UI itself (implementation
> > class). Also a constraint for me was to keep all methods of the
> > class named "MultiInputDialog", not to have to rewrite plugins.
> >
> > I'm not saying this is the best way to go, just explain the background
> > as it maybe useful if you want to improve it ;-)
> >
> > Michaël
> >>
> >> 2012/1/26 Benjamin Gudehus <hasteb...@googlemail.com
> >> <mailto:hasteb...@googlemail.com>>
> >>
> >> MultiInputDialog uses GridBagLayout for mainComponent (see
> >> MultiInputDialog.java:109).
> >>
> >> My dialog currently uses JGoodies Forms layout, but I recently had
> >> a look at
> >> DesignGridLayout and this layout is pure awesomeness (it is only
> >> 84kb as class
> >> files and only one single package).
> >>
> >> 2012/1/26 Landon Blake <sunburned.surve...@gmail.com
> >> <mailto:sunburned.surve...@gmail.com>>
> >>
> >> I can see you have given this a lot of thought. I've been
> >> wanting to take a look at the code under discussion since
> >> Michael has done some of his work. Which layout class does the
> >> MultiInputDialog use?
> >>
> >> Landon
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Benjamin Gudehus
> >> <hasteb...@googlemail.com <mailto:hasteb...@googlemail.com>>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Landon,
> >>
> >> I think we should keep MultiInputDialog as simple as
> >> possible. It provides
> >> a simple dialog with some accessible fields, some buttons
> >> and an optional
> >> description with icons. And it does this well.
> >>
> >> *(1) Code interface concepts*
> >>
> >> Let's look at the classes. Here are some statistics:
> >>
> >> MultiInputDialog.java = 503 lines, 8 fields, 21 public
> >> methods, 8 private methods.
> >> AbstractMultiInputDialog.java = 867 lines, 12 fields, 41
> >> public methods, 6 private methods.
> >>
> >> 41 public methods (!!!), I don't think that's a good sign.
> >> And we should avoid inheritance
> >> here!
> >>
> >> As I mentioned it consist basically of three parts:
> >>
> >> * MainComponent (is row based with Labels and JComponents)
> >> * OkCancelPanel (Button bar with Ok and Cancel)
> >> * SideBarPanel (InfoPanel with Image and Description)
> >>
> >> The MainComponent has the labels with string text and the
> >> components. In
> >> the class these components are added to a HashMap:
> >>
> >> protected HashMap<String,JComponent>
> >> fieldNameToComponentMap = new HashMap<String,JComponent>();
> >>
> >> You can add new fields with the addRow method:
> >>
> >> addRow(String fieldName, JComponent label, JComponent
> >> component,
> >> EnableCheck[] enableChecks, String toolTipText, int
> labelPos,
> >> int fillMode)
> >>
> >> This method is overloaded with multiple methods.
> >>
> >> To add or get a centain typed component you may use
> >> following methods:
> >>
> >> AbstractMultiInputDialog.getComboBox(String fieldName)
> >> AbstractMultiInputDialog.addComboBox(String fieldName,
> >> Object selectedItem,Collection items, String toolTipText)
> >>
> >> Many of the 41 public methods are just there, to handle
> >> the components that
> >> are stored in fieldNameToComponentMap.
> >>
> >> *(2) Appealing functional design*
> >>
> >> image.png
> >>
> >> If we pay attention on some design principles the dialogs
> >> could look like this:
> >> (I didn't include a description side bar, yet)
> >>
> >> image.png
> >>
> >> Some of the concept is found in the book Kevin Mullet, et
> >> al.: "Designing Visual Interfaces", (1995).
> >>
> >> * I added a visual left column that only contains labels
> >> (illustration 50 in the book)
> >> * The components (JComboBox, JTextFields) have all the
> >> same width. This
> >> should establish spatial relationships within design
> >> (illustration 115).
> >> * The current old dialogs have different dimension so I
> >> made the new dialogs with the same
> >> dimensions (illustration 80 in the book: "awkward
> >> dimensions").
> >>
> >> I'll write more about the code interface in a later post.
> >>
> >> --Benjamin
> >>
> >> 2012/1/26 Landon Blake <sunburned.surve...@gmail.com
> >> <mailto:sunburned.surve...@gmail.com>>
> >>
> >> It sounds like the MultiInputDialog class could evolve
> >> into a little
> >> RCP framework for plug-ins?
> >>
> >> Landon
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Benjamin Gudehus
> >> <hasteb...@googlemail.com
> >> <mailto:hasteb...@googlemail.com>> wrote:
> >> > Hi Michaël!
> >> >
> >> > 2012/1/19 Michaël Michaud <michael.mich...@free.fr
> >> <mailto:michael.mich...@free.fr>>
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> Let's see !
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I will write something about the (1) code interface
> >> concepts and (2)
> >> > appealing
> >> > functional design in a later post.
> >> >
> >> >> I've significantly reworked the MultiInputDialog
> >> design about one year
> >> >> ago,
> >> >> because I wanted to make it extendable to
> >> MultiTabInputDialog and to add
> >> >> some other components like the one to choose a
> >> Layer's attribute.
> >> >> I did not want to create a second framework and
> >> spent a considerable
> >> >> effort
> >> >> to make it more extendable without breaking anything.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > And it works well. One can even use the JCS
> >> Conflation Suite back from 2003
> >> > which makes use of MultiInputDialog and it works
> >> with newer versions of
> >> > OpenJUMP.
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> A long time before, I tried to introduce buoy
> >> ,which, I thought, had
> >> >> a clever design for UI development (still used by
> >> simple query plugin),
> >> >> but I used MultiInputDialog for all further
> >> developments.
> >> >>
> >> >> Of course, there are probably other (better) ways
> >> to do, so I'm quite
> >> >> interested into your proposition.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> By the way, what is your use case ?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > The use case is creating simple plugin configuration
> >> dialogs for scripting
> >> > enviroments, with the JComponents as fields in a
> >> class or with them
> >> > within a HashMap.
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> Michaël
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --Benjamin
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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