Re: [JPP-Devel] MultiInputDialog is a "jack of all trades device"

[Stefan S. <ss...@ge...>]

Hei Benjamin,

I was actually not talking about the internal plugins but all the 
Extensions that we have in the plugin section listed... and I guess a 
couple of people also developed their own... like SkyJUMP & AdbToolbox ones.

Is Cinema4D browser-based? couldn't find anything on that when I shortly 
browsed.
Because I think if we do something new, then it should go towards a web 
browser-based application...
anyway.. no resources there for now ;)

stefan

On 13/02/2012 2:44 AM, Benjamin Gudehus wrote:
> 2012/2/13 Stefan Steiniger <ss...@ge... <mailto:ss...@ge...>>
>
>     btw. Not saying that shouldn't break backward compatibility.
>     However, that would be then OJ 2.0 if we are going to clean up
>     everything and really seperate GUI from api etc more strict.
>     Though.. we
>     have sooo many plugins...
>
>
> If we go through all plugins that make use of MultiInputDialog (I 
> count 63 plugins) and
> prepare them systematically by writing unit tests and list all dialog 
> fields as class fields,
> then I think it's the matter of one single commit to convert them all 
> for a new api.
>
>     A dream of mine would be to come up then with a complete new
>     browser-based & HTML 5 based GUI (on Firefox?). But that's a
>     dream, and
>     would need a year of development I guess... So I rather concentrate on
>     writing documentation for now.
>
>
> HTML5 guis are a bit overrated. First we would need to build a second 
> API between
> the JTS and OpenJUMP API (Feature, Layer, LayerManager) and the HTML5 web
> application. With second API I mean a RESTful web service.
>
> I personally think the next gen OpenJUMP "desktop" gui could look like 
> this:
> http://www.maxon.net/uploads/pics/CINEMA_4D_Screenshot4_04.jpg
>
> (Instead of Perpective => LayerViewPanel, Objects tab => Layers tab,
> Structure tab => Selection tab, Attributes tag => Feature attributes tab,
> Materials view => Layer styles view.)
>
> And we need to split the toolbar into two toolbars (main toolbar and 
> cursor tools toolbar)!
>
> There could be a classic view mode, too. With the simple 
> LayerNamePanel on the
> left side and LayerViewPanel on the right side.
>
>