[Tuxpaint-devel] Wallpaper Tool

[Ankesh T. <ank...@gm...>]

Hi,

After going through different wallpaper group i have come up with the
following tentative design of interface.

1.   1.   I will create a button on the left side with the name “Tiles”. On
the right side all the 17 options will be provided.

.   . 2.  I will divide the canvas in square/rectangular grid depending on
the wallpaper group chosen by the user. There will be two option on the
right panel showing whether grid boundary is to be shown or not (because it
might be difficult for a 4-5 year old child to figure out how the pattern
is repeating itself). One can draw in any cell in which he wants to draw.

3.   3.  Right side panel will be divided in four or five  parts:

i) Showing 17 wallpaper group

ii) Option for switching between different drawing tools like paint, lines,
stamp and text

iii) Corresponding to each drawing tool various options will be given to
choose from. For example if a user chose to use line then just below the
line option’s  panel various option for line will be provided.

iv) The fourth panel is optional because it will depend on the chosen
drawing tool. So, if someone choose   text then 3rd panel will show
different font style and 4th panel will allow to change font size.

v) Option to choose whether grid is to be shown.

3.(alternative)   Instead of providing four/five panels on the right side,
we can use pop-up window in which user can select different options
available for each drawing tool. Since space on the right side is too
limited, it will decrease the number of panels and a relatively clean and
user friendly interface will be provided.

Please help me to choose between option 3rd and it's alternative. I have
just started reading the documentations and will do some experiment with
the codes by tomorrow so as to get familiar with the codes.As my primary
development platform is linux(Ubuntu) so, i don't have very much experience
in development work in windows platform but i would like to learn if needed.

It is possible that you may be reading this mail for the second time. I had
mailed the same query on first of april but i didn't get any reply so i am
writing it for the second time. As the last date of submission is very
close please help me out about this query.

Regards,

Ankesh