Re: [csjava-developer] RE: Adding buttons extension

[Toby D. <tj...@sf...>]

On 4/26/05 12:21 PM, "Daryl Van Humbeck" <dva...@sf...> wrote:

> Thanks for your feed back, I was thinking the same thing about having a
> button bar someplace instead of having the buttons on top of the image,
> where they could obscure important information.
> 
> To fix this and have a button bar inside the window would require a
> potentially major rewrite of the window-painting code (and potentially
> eliminate it altogether).
> Instead of drawing the image itself, it could pass the work off onto a
> JLabel object that shows an ImageIcon wrapped around the BufferedImage.

I would have thought that using a panel would be less drastic. Put the
original BufferedImage in one panel region, and the buttons in another
region. But I haven't looked into it carefully, so I you am not certain what
all the issues are.

I remember in the past I tried using a Jlabel or something like that for
showing the images, but that was a mistake because BufferedImage is the best
and most flexible way to deal with images in Java. The labels had some weird
side-effects for small images, if I recall, and they weren't very efficient
for image processing.

But it's worth giving it a shot to see, if you want ...
 
> Another option would be to have a JDialog hovering around the window
> someplace, where it could be moved easily.
> Just some thoughts.

Too many windows can be annoying, especially if they get disconnected and
you must move both.
 
> Let me know what you think when you have time.
> Daryl.

Toby

 
> Toby Donaldson wrote:
> 
>> Daryl,
>> 
>> This is a response to your message on the developers forum (copied at the
>> end of the message).
>> 
>> What's there looks good, and gives ideas for modifications:
>> 
>>  - the buttons are actually on top of the picture, which I think is rarely
>> going to be what people want; better would be to have the buttons in a
>> separate panel
>> 
>>  - some buttons are user-created, and some are built-in; I suggest that we
>> make a serious easy-to-user built-in buttons such as "save", "load", and
>> "close" that work in such a way that the user does not need to anything
>> about JButtons or listeners; the user-created buttons require that the user
>> need to know a little more, but it might be possible to further simplify the
>> addition of user-created buttons
>> 
>> Toby
>> 
>> By: Daryl Van Humbeck - raceimaztion
>> RE: Adding buttons extension
>> 2005-04-25 09:51
>> **** UPDATE ****
>> I've added support for a "save image" button.
>> To enable it, just call enableSaveButton().
>> 
>> It automatically adds a button to the bottom of the window and adds an
>> action listener to listen for mouse clicks.
>> When clicked, it pops up a save dialog box that lets you choose where to
>> save it and what to call it.
>> 
>> It always adds it to the far left of the window, even if there are already
>> buttons there.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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