Is there a plan to improve the layout customizability beyond the GUI Hints? I think the gui hints are counter-intuitive and don't provide a lot of control.
Rich On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Martin Braun <[email protected]> wrote: > On 24.03.2015 09:04, George Hadley wrote: > >> Greetings all, >> >> I recently began using gnuradio and GRC with a pair of USRPs. >> It's my understanding that plans are underway to ultimately remove WX in >> v3.9 as a GUI option from gnuradio, and replace it with QT. It's also my >> understanding that QT GUI development is underway in future versions of >> gnuradio. I'm interested in attempting to help develop for gnuradio and >> have forked a copy of the source from github. >> > > Whoooo! We are really very happy about new developers, *especially* on the > GUI side. > > >> With that in mind, I have a few questions: >> >> 1. Who is involved with QT GUI development for gnuradio? >> > > Tom is the main guy for this, and he'll probably chip in. > > 2. What future improvements, especially functionality related, are >> planned for gnuradio QT? All I have been able to find in the >> 3.8.0 roadmap is that grc will "introduce a QT version of GRC" >> (what does that mean?) and that gr-qtgui will be switching >> examples to use gr-qtgui instead of gr-wxgui. Functionality I'm >> most interested in includes X/Y mode for the QT GUI Time Sink >> and the ability to pause the output of the Time, Frequency, and >> Waterfall sinks (as is available via the "Stop" button in the WX >> counterparts. >> > > Before you rush ahead, X/Y mode is already available through the > 'constellation' sink. But that's not to say we can't change the time sink. > Particularly for people who are used to it. > > Pause is already in QT -- check out the menu. > > 3. In looking over the WX and QT GUI options, I personally prefer >> the layout and functionality of the WX GUI components >> (specifically, the instrumentation options). Are there any plans >> to attempt to replicate the layout and options of the WX >> components? (Perhaps the old WX layout style and functionality >> are being abandoned for good reason; if that's the case, if >> anybody could clarify that for me or point me in the right >> direction I would be most appreciative.) >> > > Yes, but don't want it to be permanent. Ideal woulde be a sidebar with > instrumentation buttons that is collapsible, or hidable or something like > that. > > There's a couple of things we'd like to add to the QT widgets, let me have > a look if I can find that list. > > Cheers, > > M > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >
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