RE: [hpoj-devel] New screenshots + source

[Joe P. <joe...@sn...>]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, PASCHAL,DAVID (HP-Roseville,ex1) wrote:
> Hi, Joe.  Thanks for putting together the new prototype so quickly.  It's
> very close to what I had in mind.  One comment I'll make right now is that
> we shouldn't restrict phone numbers to the US-style format of 3-digit area
> code and 3+4-digit phone number.  I'd like this software to have world-wide
> appeal, but of course that would also require translation capability, which
> opens another whole can of worms.  :-)
> 

Though I was doing a some things to make internationalization easier, I had no
clue about the phone number difference. The entry field is now a single longer
line. Is that the best way to do it?  If there are other issues like that, let
me know. What I'm doing now is making text label fields longer, by extending
them to the edge of their containing widgets, with the containers themselves
being extra long if practical.

> Before anybody spends too much time on this I probably need to finish my
> current project of adding PML support to PTAL, because that would provide
> the necessary application-level infrastructure to support an application
> like this.  Then it would probably be a good idea to write some simple
> command-line scripts that play around with the various settings that are
> available via PML so that we can better understand the functionality we're
> trying to expose to the user.
> 

I'll spend less time adding widgets, and more improving those I already have.
Let me know if I go astray. Only three screens are mostly complete anyway, all
in the fax settings.  I have a couple of  new screenshots  at:

http://pages.cthome.net/jsp/hpoj-linux-gui/index.html

It builds now too, so if you have the latest Qt and tmake or a similar
utility, you can see how much is done.  The source can be downloaded from
the same page.


Lou wrote:
>I like your mockup.

Thanks.

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Joe