Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] A few questions regarding QT GUI development

[Richard Bell]

Yes. I'm glad you asked :-).

The counter-intuitiveness of it for me, comes from rowspan and colspan. I might make an incorrect statement here, so please correct me if I do.

1) I think rowspan and colspan should give you control over the height and width of the widget. Instead, it defines how many columns or rows the widget is allowed to spill into. Without having control over column and row width, you don't have control over widget height and width.

2) Allow control of grid positions height/width. This would allow one widget to dominate the screen and other lesser widgets to be sprinkled around it.

3) If you don't add any GUI Hints, Have the widgets auto-fit to your monitors screen size so that you don't have to scroll up and down the window to see plots.

4) When using the GUI Tabs feature (which I love), don't connect one tabs grid layout to the other tabs. Let them have independent sizing. I'm struggling with this now.

Those are the main ones I can think of.

v/r,

Rich

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Tom Rondeau <address@hidden> wrote:

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Richard Bell <address@hidden> wrote:

Is there a plan to improve the layout customizability beyond the GUI Hints? I think the gui hints are counter-intuitive and don't provide a lot of control.

Rich

I don't find them that counter-intuitive. The (row, col, rowspan, colspan) is a fairly often used concept in grid layouts. Still, I don't disagree that we can make this better and offer more flexibility. Do you specific suggestions that we could discuss?

Tom

 

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Martin Braun <address@hidden> wrote:

On 24.03.2015 09:04, George Hadley wrote:

Greetings all,

         I recently began using gnuradio and GRC with a pair of USRPs.
It's my understanding that plans are underway to ultimately remove WX in
v3.9 as a GUI option from gnuradio, and replace it with QT. It's also my
understanding that QT GUI development is underway in future versions of
gnuradio. I'm interested in attempting to help develop for gnuradio and
have forked a copy of the source from github.

Whoooo! We are really very happy about new developers, *especially* on the GUI side.

         With that in mind, I have a few questions:

     1. Who is involved with QT GUI development for gnuradio?

Tom is the main guy for this, and he'll probably chip in.

     2. What future improvements, especially functionality related, are
        planned for gnuradio QT? All I have been able to find in the
        3.8.0 roadmap is that grc will "introduce a QT version of GRC"
        (what does that mean?) and that gr-qtgui will be switching
        examples to use gr-qtgui instead of gr-wxgui. Functionality I'm
        most interested in includes X/Y mode for the QT GUI Time Sink
        and the ability to pause the output of the Time, Frequency, and
        Waterfall sinks (as is available via the "Stop" button in the WX
        counterparts.

Before you rush ahead, X/Y mode is already available through the 'constellation' sink. But that's not to say we can't change the time sink. Particularly for people who are used to it.

Pause is already in QT -- check out the menu.

     3. In looking over the WX and QT GUI options, I personally prefer
        the layout and functionality of the WX GUI components
        (specifically, the instrumentation options). Are there any plans
        to attempt to replicate the layout and options of the WX
        components? (Perhaps the old WX layout style and functionality
        are being abandoned for good reason; if that's the case, if
        anybody could clarify that for me or point me in the right
        direction I would be most appreciative.)

Yes, but don't want it to be permanent. Ideal woulde be a sidebar with instrumentation buttons that is collapsible, or hidable or something like that.

There's a couple of things we'd like to add to the QT widgets, let me have a look if I can find that list.

Cheers,

M

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