Howto resize "Presets" widget

[lundbech]

I put the presets on a tab for itself. I have quite a few presets, so I'm kinda fed up with scrolling the list.

Is there any way you can resize the "Presets" dialog so it fits the whole height of the tab?

(Solution in post no. 7 in thread.)

[jpmccormac]

I put the presets on a tab for itself.

How do you do this? I find the Tabs menus very confusing. Is there a way to simplify or rename tabs?

[afx]

Is there any way you can resize the "Presets" dialog so it fits the whole height of the tab?

You could try to hack the UI file for the presets...

I find the Tabs menus very confusing. Is there a way to simplify or rename tabs?

The customToolsUI.txt UI hack to change the tool tabs still works, see http://flightofthebibbles.blogspot.com/ ... -tabs.html and http://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=45735

cheers
afx

[lundbech]

Is there any way you can resize the "Presets" dialog so it fits the whole height of the tab?

You could try to hack the UI file for the presets...

Tried that. Added this (this used to work in Bibble):

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  <property name="minimumSize" >
   <size>
    <width>0</width>
    <height>640</height>
   </size>
  </property>

to

/opt/AfterShotPro/supportfiles/tools/Presets.ui

right before <property name="sizePolicy">

and it does resize the Presets widget, but not the scrollbox with folders inside it. It remains the same size, centered inside a much larger Presets widget. Any thoughts?

[afx]

Any thoughts?

Nope, sorry, no time to fiddle with the Qt widget hierarchies at the moment ;-(

cheers
afx

[kaymann]

Put the Presets UI into it's own tab and tried all the above still no go. Time for Monkey

2012-5-12

Catalog corruption was causing the ASP crash not the edits above.

Thanks looks beautiful now!

[lundbech]

Put the Presets UI into it's own tab and tried all the above still no go. Time for Monkey

Since no one wanted to do the job for me, I had to find out for myself.

So this is how it works.

Edit the Presets.ui file.
Found here om Linux: /opt/AfterShotPro/supportfiles/tools/Presets.ui

Insert this code:

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  <property name="minimumSize" >
   <size>
    <width>0</width>
    <height>640</height>
   </size>
  </property>

above this line:

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  <property name="sizePolicy">

This resizes the Presets widget, but the scrollable list remains the same size.

So find this line

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    <widget class="CPresetsWidget" name="Presets" native="true" />

and replace it with this. (basically inserting the same code as above within the "widget" tag.

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   <widget class="CPresetsWidget" name="Presets" native="true">
   <property name="minimumSize" >
   <size>
    <width>0</width>
    <height>640</height>
   </size>
  </property>
    </widget>

Here's my Presets.ui AFTER the changes have been made:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ui version="4.0" >
 <class>BibbleSettingsForm_bis</class>
 <widget class="SettingsWidget" name="BibbleSettingsForm_bis" >
  <property name="geometry" >
   <rect>
    <x>0</x>
    <y>0</y>
    <width>303</width>
    <height>209</height>
   </rect>
  </property>
  <property name="minimumSize" >
   <size>
    <width>0</width>
    <height>640</height>
   </size>
  </property>
  <property name="sizePolicy">
   <sizepolicy hsizetype="Preferred" vsizetype="Preferred">
    <horstretch>0</horstretch>
    <verstretch>0</verstretch>
   </sizepolicy>
  </property>
  <property name="windowTitle" >
   <string>Presets</string>
  </property>
  <layout class="QVBoxLayout" name="verticalLayout" >
    <property name="margin" >
    <number>0</number>
   </property>
   <item>
   <widget class="CPresetsWidget" name="Presets" native="true">
   <property name="minimumSize" >
   <size>
    <width>0</width>
    <height>640</height>
   </size>
  </property>
    </widget>
   </item>
  </layout>
 </widget>
 <customwidgets>
  <customwidget>
   <class>SettingsWidget</class>
   <extends>QWidget</extends>
   <header>SettingsWidget.h</header>
   <container>1</container>
  </customwidget>
  <customwidget>
   <class>CPresetsWidget</class>
   <extends>QWidget</extends>
   <header>PresetsWidget.h</header>
   <container>1</container>
  </customwidget>
 </customwidgets>
 <resources/>
 <connections/>
</ui>

PLEASE NOTE: adjust the <height>640</height> in both locations to what ever suits your screensize.

This should probably be moved to the "Tips, Tricks, and Results" subforum.

[Hobgoblin]

Many thanks.
That works fine.

Worth remembering that at an upgrade this will almost certainly be overwritten - so make a copy and keep it somewhere safe!

R.

[AsterixEtObelix]

Thanks for the tips ! the Preset ui is more usable now

[Ianr]

Cool, thanks for that info .....

[nyukuri]

that so cool, thank you, my preset list is now so much better and of course has its own tab

BUT I have also many Output batches and the window for them is too small, I was looking for an .UI but didn't find any for the Batch Output. Does anyone have an idea on how to change the size of the Batch output tab?

Thank you in advance and greetz from the heart of Africa!
nyukuri

[lundbech]

that so cool, thank you, my preset list is now so much better and of course has its own tab

BUT I have also many Output batches and the window for them is too small, I was looking for an .UI but didn't find any for the Batch Output. Does anyone have an idea on how to change the size of the Batch output tab?

I did look for that one also, but didn't find it. Even looked through the complete list of installed files, to see if there was something obvious there, but no such luck ...

[nyukuri]

Hi,
I was looking up the registry and found the info concerning the Output tab:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Corel\AfterShot Pro\LastRun\QueueToolBox\Output\batch_output_dwidget

there one can save if the tab is pinned or not, and Aftershot DOES respect the change on start up.
interestingly, there is also an entry for the SIZE:

PinnedSize=@Size(214 228)

But if I change this to @Size(214 428) AfterShot Pro does NOT accept the change and resets the value when it is started. I tried different values and all different tabs (Batch Output, Catalog etc.) No success!
So it seems there is really no way of changing the size of the tabs on the left panel...

regards,
nyukuri

[d-light]

Can anybody point me at where the Presets.ui file resides on Mac OS?

Maybe I'm just too blind to see it. Most other adjustments I have done so far could be made in ~/Library/Application Support/Aftershot Pro

Thanks and best regards