Re: [Gimp-developer] Notes from the Guad3c GIMP BOF session

2002-04-11 Thread Øyvind Kolås
the idea was not to use the original drawable but to have the preview create a scaled version of the selected area and expose it to the plug-in as if it was a drawable. This will need some hacks in the proxy drawable code in libgimp but I think it could be done. Oh, ok. That's a good

Re: [Gimp-developer] Notes from the Guad3c GIMP BOF session

2002-04-10 Thread Ville Pätsi
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 18:42, Stephen J Baker wrote: The idea is that a right-click followed by a short (and easily memorized) gesture gets you to the menu item you want in less time than scrolling down that l-o-n-g menu. Yeah. I actually wanted something more like 3dsmax than maya. I did a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Notes from the Guad3c GIMP BOF session

2002-04-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Nathan C Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Provide an API that allows the plug-in developer to use the same function for manipulating the image as well as the preview. The preview would have to provide a drawable API and pixel-regions etc. in order to achieve this goal.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Notes from the Guad3c GIMP BOF session

2002-04-10 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 03:42:31PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: - Most, if not all, plug-ins should have a preview and they should share a common look and feel. - The preview should be zoomable with the plug-in specifying the initial zoom setup (1:1 in most cases). What about: - left

Re: [Gimp-developer] Notes from the Guad3c GIMP BOF session

2002-04-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tino Schwarze) writes: - The preview should be zoomable with the plug-in specifying the initial zoom setup (1:1 in most cases). What about: - left mouse click = zoom in - middle mouse drag = move around - right mouse click = zoom out or use shift-left and

Re: [Gimp-developer] Notes from the Guad3c GIMP BOF session

2002-04-10 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:47:42AM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: zooming by means of mouse clicks or mouse wheel is an option but there needs to be a UI that clearly indicates that you are able to zoom and how to do it. Only using the mouse w/o adding any visible UI elements is not an option

Re: [Gimp-developer] Notes from the Guad3c GIMP BOF session

2002-04-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tino Schwarze) writes: Hmmm... what about embedding a real image inside the preview? I don't understand this sentence. Could you elaborate on this? I mean: Why create proxies and stuff? Just create an appropiate GimpImage and let the plugin poke on that. I'm

Re: [Gimp-developer] Notes from the Guad3c GIMP BOF session

2002-04-10 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:58:57 +0200, Tino Schwarze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:47:42AM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: zooming by means of mouse clicks or mouse wheel is an option but there needs to be a UI that clearly indicates that you are able to zoom and how to do

Re: [Gimp-developer] Notes from the Guad3c GIMP BOF session

2002-04-10 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On 09 Apr 2002 15:42:31 +0200, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - The zoom GUI might be copied from PS: --- | | | | | Preview | | | --- +100% - I like this GUI. I also like the fact

Re: [Gimp-developer] Notes from the Guad3c GIMP BOF session

2002-04-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, RaphaXl Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 09 Apr 2002 15:42:31 +0200, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - The zoom GUI might be copied from PS: --- | | | | | Preview | | | ---

Re: [Gimp-developer] Notes from the Guad3c GIMP BOF session

2002-04-10 Thread Nathan C Summers
On 10 Apr 2002, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Nathan C Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Provide an API that allows the plug-in developer to use the same function for manipulating the image as well as the preview. The preview would have to provide a drawable API and pixel-regions

Re: [Gimp-developer] Notes from the Guad3c GIMP BOF session

2002-04-09 Thread Damien Genet
salut, Le mar 09/04/2002 à 15:42, Sven Neumann a écrit : - Four direction menus to reduce mouse movements necessary to reach a certain menu entry. I'm not sure if I understood this correctly. Someone should draw some Ascii art to illustrate this. I don't like the idea. i suggest you

Re: [Gimp-developer] Notes from the Guad3c GIMP BOF session

2002-04-09 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Damien Genet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Clicking somewhere into the image and starting to type should create a new text layer the size of the text's bounding box. Clicking and dragging should create a new text layer the size of the dragged rectangle. or, the size of the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Notes from the Guad3c GIMP BOF session

2002-04-09 Thread Stephen J Baker
Le mar 09/04/2002 à 15:42, Sven Neumann a écrit : - Four direction menus to reduce mouse movements necessary to reach a certain menu entry. I'm not sure if I understood this correctly. Someone should draw some Ascii art to illustrate this. I don't like the idea. I've seen this on a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Notes from the Guad3c GIMP BOF session

2002-04-09 Thread Damien Genet
salut, Le mar 09/04/2002 à 16:45, Sven Neumann a écrit : how can we wrap lines then if there's no given width to fit the text into? right ;) firt, my main principle was : in fact the user don't want to see a layer, he just want to see text but, this lead to interresting questions they are

Re: [Gimp-developer] Notes from the Guad3c GIMP BOF session

2002-04-09 Thread Mike Phillips
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Stephen J Baker wrote: Le mar 09/04/2002 à 15:42, Sven Neumann a écrit : - Four direction menus to reduce mouse movements necessary to reach a certain menu entry. I'm not sure if I understood this correctly. Someone should draw some Ascii art to illustrate

Re: [Gimp-developer] Notes from the Guad3c GIMP BOF session

2002-04-09 Thread Nathan C Summers
On 9 Apr 2002, Sven Neumann wrote: Someone wanted a way to a enter zoom value numerically, so we might want to use an entry/spinbutton instead. Seems to me that an entry/spinbutton has all the advantages of the other ui proposal with the extra advantage that you can quickly and easily go to