Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translucent Dialogs
David Megginson writes: The translucent dialogs we've been using look very spiffy, but it turns out that they're not all that practical once you start using things like pop-up menus in combo boxes. Take a look at the clouds dialog in the latest CVS (FlightGear and base package) to see why. How would people feel about going opaque? What about 90% opaque? Just enough to say, yeah, we're cool but for all practical purposes, they are opaque ... (?) Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translucent Dialogs
On 1/19/03 at 6:06 PM David Megginson wrote: The translucent dialogs we've been using look very spiffy, but it turns out that they're not all that practical once you start using things like pop-up menus in combo boxes. Take a look at the clouds dialog in the latest CVS (FlightGear and base package) to see why. How would people feel about going opaque? Opaque is good for dialogs where the sim is paused, but translucent is better for non-paused dialogs, such as selecting an ATC communication from a list whilst flying, IMHO. Could this not be made user definable though? Cheers - Dave ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translucent Dialogs
David Megginson writes: The translucent dialogs we've been using look very spiffy, but it turns out that they're not all that practical once you start using things like pop-up menus in combo boxes. Take a look at the clouds dialog in the latest CVS (FlightGear and base package) to see why. How would people feel about going opaque? Ok, your latest changes eliminate my crash. Thanks! I now see what you mean about the translucency. The popup menus at least need to be opaque. But since we probably can't control this at that fine of detail we do probably need to go opaque ... I'm not all that attached to the translucency other than it was a bit of eye candy, I'm willing to give it up if everyone else is. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
RE: [Flightgear-devel] Translucent Dialogs
David, The translucent dialogs we've been using look very spiffy, but it turns out that they're not all that practical once you start using things like pop-up menus in combo boxes. Take a look at the clouds dialog in the latest CVS (FlightGear and base package) to see why. How would people feel about going opaque? I am not that definit on this one, maybe personally would leave it as is, but as we are on this: Could we draw the menu line over the full width, independent of resolution? This is common for nearly all programs on all platforms I know. We just would fill it with the main menu entries as far as they go. Perhaps the Help menu (maybe including an About button with a link the Home page and GPL) might be on the very right, but this is not mandatory. PS: Are the recent CVS submits supposed to solve the OK/Cancel memory leak issue? Regards, Michael -- Michael Basler, Jena, Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/pmb.geo/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
RE: [Flightgear-devel] Translucent Dialogs
David, After getting recent CVS updates the menu crash is gone for me too. Great Work you guys! Regards, Michael -- Michael Basler, Jena, Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/pmb.geo/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translucent Dialogs
Curtis L. Olson writes: How would people feel about going opaque? What about 90% opaque? Just enough to say, yeah, we're cool but for all practical purposes, they are opaque ... (?) Sounds like a good compromise. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
RE: [Flightgear-devel] Translucent Dialogs
Michael Basler writes: Could we draw the menu line over the full width, independent of resolution? This is common for nearly all programs on all platforms I know. Right now we're using the higher-level PUI menubar widget, so we have to take what we get. To change its appearance, we'd have to implement our own menubar from low-level widgets. In fact, we probably will have to do that sooner or later, since the PUI menubar is not all that feature-rich, but I don't want to dive into it right now. PS: Are the recent CVS submits supposed to solve the OK/Cancel memory leak issue? It should be fixed now. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
