Automatic layout for Qt GUIs

pedromateo · wrote on 1 Dec 2010, 12:43

just changed!!!
thanks leinir.

DenisKormalev · wrote on 1 Dec 2010, 16:48

Looks interesting, but I failed to find info about project at your website.

alexander · wrote on 1 Dec 2010, 17:18

It's interesting, can we see this prototype code?

pedromateo · wrote on 1 Dec 2010, 19:45

Hi again!!!

Sorry Denis, but these results are very recent, so we have not yet created any documentation. We would like to write something to present all the details of this solution.

Alexander, we are finishing this first prototype. Note that the video was recorded this morning, so it shows the first results we obtained. There is a lot of remaining work, but we will try to share the code as soon as possible.

Our idea is to improve it as much as possible, and implement it to allow developers to choose (and also implement) among several arrangement strategies.

I will send a new post when any documentation and/or the code are available.

Thanks a lot for your comments!!

DenisKormalev · wrote on 1 Dec 2010, 19:47

pedromateo, ok, I will wait for your next post :)
What about licenses? Will it be under lgpl?

pedromateo · wrote on 2 Dec 2010, 22:47

[quote author="Denis Kormalev" date="1291232855"]pedromateo, ok, I will wait for your next post :)
What about licenses? Will it be under lgpl?[/quote]

Hi Denis,

all of our work is released under the lgpl license, because one of the principles underlying our organization is to share our results in order to obtain feedback from the community.
However, another of our goals is writing papers. So, I do not know if I can free the details of this design before the paper is written.

Nevertheles, if I can, I will post some process details or pieces of code for people to give me some feedback and try to improve this solution. Thus don't worry, I will free this code as soon as I can.

Best Regards.

milot.shala · wrote on 3 Dec 2010, 12:32

Great work Pedro!

As everyone else here in the forums, I like to see code, so I guess we should wait for that :)

pedromateo · wrote on 14 Dec 2010, 10:22

Hi!!!

Now I am working on improving the arrangement strategy to support some "extreme" cases in which the elements of the initial GUI are very very misplaced.

I think that a GUI in which the elements are distributed like a square, that is, all the widgets are distributed all over the available space (please, see the video above), it seems the GUI is better arranged because, if for example we divide the GUI space into 4 similar sub-squares, all of them have a similar "weight".

However, GUIs can be composed of a very heterogeneous group of elements, so I think trying to get always a square shape could be "dangerous".

What do you think about this?

Thnaks, and Regards

andre · wrote on 14 Jan 2011, 10:30

Could you explain how the relationships between the elements are defined? The video does not show that.

pedromateo · wrote on 21 Jan 2011, 12:33

[quote author="Andre" date="1295001044"]Could you explain how the relationships between the elements are defined? The video does not show that.[/quote]

Hi Andre,

now I can't give you details about how the relatinships between widgets are defined. We are wondering whether to create a new paper an then an open-source contribution related to this idea.

However, I can say you that the position of each widget is compared to the position of closer widgets, and then is ordered according to its position inside the container which is holding it.

I will provide you with further details ass soon as I can.

Cheers!!