Re: [Sc-devel] Quarks.gui

[James Harkins <jamshark70@xxxxxxxxx>]

Could you insert the following debugging line into the Quarks gui method?

You're right, it shouldn't be too hard to add the scroll bar (and it would simplify the code) -- the reason why we didn't earlier is that SwingOSC didn't have a scroll view, so it wouldn't have been cross platform.

I'm concerned, though, that if it's reading the screen bounds incorrectly, even with the scroll bar, some of the window might still be out of reach. So if we did get some more info about what's happening with the current GUI, that would be great.

(The critical buttons are off the bottom of the screen for you, btw.)

hjh

height = min(quarks.size * 25 + 120, GUI.window.screenBounds.height - 60);

maxPerPage = (height - 120) div: 25;

[height, maxPerPage].debug("Quarks.gui: height and num per page");

window = GUI.window.new(this.name, Rect(300, 60, 550, height));

window.view.decorator =  FlowLayout( window.view.bounds );

On Jan 30, 2008, at 5:12 AM, thor wrote:

On 29 Jan 2008, at 23:12, James Harkins wrote:

A scrollbar would be more intuitive, but there are currently

previous/next page buttons in the window to get to the rest of them.

Hi James

Sorry about all these complaints, but I was going to show my students the Quarks.gui,

the problem is that I don't understand it myself and can't use it.

First, I only see parts of the available quarks. (and no previous/next buttons)

Second, I don't know what the buttons do. I can see that installed quarks

have a green button with "i" on it. I then click a button on an uninstalled quark

and the GUI says "Quarks modified". This would make me believe that the quark

has been installed in my Extensions/quarks folder. But I see no quark there.

I recompile and would expect the quark to work, but it's not installed.

(maybe there are some other buttons that I'm not seeing?)

Third, it's not in alphabetical order, which makes it time consuming to look for

the quark to install and to spot if a quark is installed or not.

Just some late feedback on otherwise a fine tool.

: H. James Harkins

: jamshark70@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

: http://www.dewdrop-world.net

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