kicad-developers team mailing list archive

[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/22/2011 10:05 AM, Jerry Jacobs wrote:
> On 2/19/11 11:15 AM, Marco Mattila wrote:
>> Related to this discussion, I just committed a new zone dialog layout.
>> As always, I welcome feedback.
> The dialog looks very good on OSX, only the width of the layer list 
> should be a bit more wide. And also it should dynamic scale when 
> resizing the window. Same as for the nets list.
>
> http://kicad.xor-gate.org/screenshots/zone-properties.png
>
> Good work Marco,


Marco,


Thanks for all your help.  The dialog does look good.


In additional to our goal of having all dialogs resize-able, something that
can also enhance the UI experience is to "remember" the user's desired size
and position of that adjustment, after he/she makes it.



bool DIALOG_LAYERS_SETUP::Show( bool show )
{
    bool ret;

    if( show )
    {
        if( s_LastPos.x != -1 )
        {
            SetSize( s_LastPos.x, s_LastPos.y, s_LastSize.x, s_LastSize.y, 0 );
        }
        ret = DIALOG_LAYERS_SETUP_BASE::Show( show );
    }
    else
    {
        // Save the dialog's position before hiding
        s_LastPos  = GetPosition();
        s_LastSize = GetSize();

        ret = DIALOG_LAYERS_SETUP_BASE::Show( show );
    }

    return ret;
}


Above, taken from pcbnew/dialogs/dialog_layers_setup.cpp, is probably the
best example on how to do this.
It just involves two static members, s_LastPos, and s_LastSize.  The user
then only has to position or stretch the dialog one time per run session.


Dick