On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Richard Bell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > I don't find them that counter-intuitive. The (row, col, rowspan, colspan) is a fairly often used concept in grid layouts. Still, I don't disagree that we can make this better and offer more flexibility. Do you specific suggestions that we could discuss? Tom > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio > >
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