new update: 40+ new UI's for plugins

[andreas]

Another hint:

If one changes ui files he/she should be aware of the language settings, most of the text in plugins are translated in other languages. The ui file only carries the "names" of the text. Yes these are often the same as the English texts, but that may fail. In the asGPS plugin for example are texts also changed for the English language. So If one changes texts (e.g. spaces around) one should do that by using the QT "linguist" tool if the *.ts files are available. If you change your private ui file it is also possible to do that and remove the locale files from the plugin directory.

Andreas

[ferdinand-paris]

When I ported Bez to ASP I spent some time trying to get the ui file "right". By which I mean everything lined up neatly, and so that the minimum width of Bez was as narrow as possible. Interestingly, I found that the correct way to do this changed between B5.2.3 and ASP. The hard part was working out what constituted "right", because there's no guidance about this written anywhere that I could find. It seems I must have been on the right track, as the changes to Bez.ui are cosmetic and trivial.

What would be useful to plugin writers is if you could document what you did and why. That way future plugins could be written taking this into account.

I had started to try to do what you've done to my other installed plugins, but decided that it was too much work for one person. I'm impressed that you persisted.

F_P

[spoilerhead]

Another hint:

If one changes ui files he/she should be aware of the language settings, most of the text in plugins are translated in other languages. The ui file only carries the "names" of the text. Yes these are often the same as the English texts, but that may fail. In the asGPS plugin for example are texts also changed for the English language. So If one changes texts (e.g. spaces around) one should do that by using the QT "linguist" tool if the *.ts files are available. If you change your private ui file it is also possible to do that and remove the locale files from the plugin directory.

Andreas

also when chaning the text in the ui file that breaks the whole translation system i think (at least if i change some string it shows up in t he linuist as untranslated.

[cookiebob]

Amazing job!! Thank you very much nyukuri

[nyukuri]

I have updated the UI's, just download them from the first post in this thread.
Included is a new feature (check the readme.txt) that allows placing mini versions of much loved plugins on the Standard tab together with the "Basic Adjustments" but WITHOUT cluttering that tab or without pinning the plugins. Hope you enjoy it!
One of those features requires GradFilter, I highly recommend it! Just buy it from the author, I think its the best ASP plugin ever!

[nyukuri]

Another hint:

If one changes ui files he/she should be aware of the language settings, most of the text in plugins are translated in other languages. The ui file only carries the "names" of the text. Yes these are often the same as the English texts, but that may fail. In the asGPS plugin for example are texts also changed for the English language. So If one changes texts (e.g. spaces around) one should do that by using the QT "linguist" tool if the *.ts files are available. If you change your private ui file it is also possible to do that and remove the locale files from the plugin directory.

I am very sorry for this inconvenience! I apologize to all those who use ASP with a different language setting! Will be stating in the first post, that it is only recommended for English speaking users...

[Hobgoblin]

Hi,
I have updated the UI's, just download them from the first post in this thread.
Included is a new feature (check the readme.txt) that allows placing mini versions of much loved plugins on the Standard tab together with the "Basic Adjustments" but WITHOUT cluttering that tab or without pinning the plugins. Hope you enjoy it!
One of those features requires GradFilter, I highly recommend it! Just buy it from the author, I think its the best ASP plugin ever!
cheers
-nyukuri

Link does not appear to work!
.R

[nyukuri]

Try again, I guess you were downloading just while I uploaded the new version

[Hobgoblin]

Try again, I guess you were downloading just while I uploaded the new version

Fine now

And thanks for your fine work on these alternative interfaces - they certainly work better than the standard Corel offerings on my laptop.

R.

[nyukuri]

UPDATE July 5 2012:

BasicTools: "Tint" slider added, "Temp" starts at 1000K, AutoLevel edit fields adjustable with mouse click, Temp+Tint edit fields adjustable with mouse click
Bez: optimized for smaller screens (new tab)
CAQuest: better layout
ColorEqualizer: minimal layout changes
ColorManagement: minimal layout changes
Curves: optimized for smaller screens
LensCorrection: better layout im "Manual" tab
MathBox: optimized for smaller screens
SplitToni: colored sliders for saturation and hue, optimized for smaller screens, "Highlights" now before "Shadows"
USM: "Amount" and "Radius" sliders switched to correspond with other plugins
Vigne: optimized for smaller screens (with tabs now)
Vigne mini: better layout
WaveletSharpen (small): "S+P" checkbox replaced
WhiteBalance: "Temp" starts at 1000K, edit fields adjustable with mouse click
zPerspector: minimal layout changes
zSoften: better layout
zText: optimized for smaller screens

see first post for download!

[patrickh]

Thank you nyukuri for the hard work you have put in for this well planned improvement to the user interface on several of these plugins. This is a fine polish on the excellent work of the plugin composers themselves.


parickh

[nyukuri]

your welcome!

[jknights]

Big amount of work nyukuri.

Well done.
I have not done any installs yet as I use Apple Mac which is slightly different in the QT GUI handling.
I have done some personal edits to the UI before and appreciate the time you have taken to do this.

Please could you do a post that shows the 'before' and 'after changes' to the GUI (side by side). This would allow people to make selective GUI updates.

[andysalay]

Thank you Nyukuri.
These changes seem very useful, I am going to try them.

Regards,
Andy Salay

[andrewj]

Thanks. I've taken your modified version as the starting point for the next ASP version of CAQuest.

Andrew