[Sugar-devel] [PATCH][record] Fixes to the UI

[Anish Mangal]

I'd like to add one more thing. I didn't test the activity without a
camera. I have a laptop with an integrated webcam and the XO has an
integrated webcam as well.

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Anish



On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Anish Mangal <anishmangal2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> At least for myself, I'd like to see more detail here -- how was
>> it broken?
>
> Sure. The record UI consists of many windows/widgets. In a particular
> mode or view, it displays and resizes the widgets appropriate for that
> view the tries to hide the other windows by moving them off-screen.
> Now, on sugar-0.88 (and probably on versions 0.86>), while trying to
> move the widgets off-screen, they actually get dumped on the
> bottom-right corner of screen. Hence, if you run the existing Record
> activity on 0.88, you'll see that the bottom right quadrant of screen
> is 'corrupted'.
>
> The patch (which I must confess is not an ideal fix), works by
> resizing (to size 1px by 1px) and hiding the widgets not required in a
> particular view/mode. To accomplish that, I created the
> 'resizewindows' method. Also, in the 'updatevideocomponents' method I
> hide the widgets not required in a particular view.
>
>>Did you test the result on older
>> versions of Sugar too?  On the XO?
>
> I've tested this only on sugar-emulator-0.88 and xo1-f11-0.88. I'll
> download older soas versions and test it on that as well. There will
> probably be some minor quirks which might get revealed when I test it
> more extensively.
>
> --
> Anish
>
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
>> Hi Anish,
>>
>>   > This patch fixes the Record ui which is broken since versions
>>   > 0.86 and later.
>>
>> At least for myself, I'd like to see more detail here -- how was
>> it broken?  How did you fix it?  Did you test the result on older
>> versions of Sugar too?  On the XO?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Chris.
>> --
>> Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>
>> One Laptop Per Child
>>
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