Re: [Maya2osg-users] About the UI

[Javier T. <jav...@gm...>]

  Hi Peter,

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Peter Wrobel <pp...@cg...> wrote:
> Hi Javier and all, have exams this week, so this will be very short.
> Will turn more to maya2osg after monday

  OK. Just delay the answer to this message until next week. I'm
writing it now, because otherwise I will forget :)

> Yes, the normal fileTranslator functionality is doing this. When you
> don't add a file extension, the fileTranslator chooses the first which
> is assotiated with ... oh I can't check any more, notice now, that all

  Yes, this is the normal (and desirable) behavior, but the problem is
that when you explicitly define an extension, it still chooses the
default one. There is no way to specify other than the default. I
tried for a while, but I didn't find a way to solve it  :?

  But don't worry, anyway, our export command works pretty well  :)

>>    OK. After some use, you discover that the straight way to use this
>> part of the UI is going directly to the Browse button in the Filename
>> and there you can select at once file path, file name and file type.
>> Well. Then clearly the first textfield file path and especially its
>> Browse button are redundant.
>
> Not really, as sometimes you might want to keep filename, filetype, but
> just change the path.
> On my to do list is also something like "exportSelectedMeshAsGeode". Now
> suppose, you want to organize all what you export in different pathes.
> What's very handey for this is also the recently used paths Popup, when
> you press right mouse button over the path field. Tried that alreafy ?

  :-)   I didn't tried that. Cool!

> Yes, same reason as above, when you wanna do the Testing, tweaking,
> testing, tweaking Thingie, its unconfortable to reaopen the dialog
> again. Same solution idea, either one more button "export and close" or
> give a Option, "Close After Export"

  Personally I prefer the option better than the button. This way you
select it once and forget it exists. With the button you have to
choose always between all the buttons.

> So I submit now minor changes, making the text field for filename
> editable again, and the UI opening with optionMenu by default.
> Moreover, there is a global proc "maya2osg_removeOptionVars" actually
> deletes all the optionVars. This means that when reopening the UI, they
> will be regenarted with default settings.

  Why? I liked very much when you added all the OptionVars because I
can store my last export options from one Maya execution to other. I
think it is very useful. Please, don't disable now this feature  :)


  Regards,

-- 
Javier Taibo