[ptx] thoughts for hugin UI, post 0.5

[douglas wilkins]

--- Rob Park <rbpark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/26/05, Jim Watters <jwatters at photocreations.ca> wrote:
[snip]
> > Tijmen wrote:
[snip]
> > I am not sure of the purpose of "Use the custom settings above:" except,
> > may be to save different settings as presets.
> 
> Yup. It has a list of commonly used presets including: 
> 
> "a high quality TIFF file" (selects TIFF, enables soft blending)
> "a high quality JPG file" (selects JPG, 90% compression)
> "a draft quality JPG file" (selects JPG, image is 1024px wide)
> "a layered TIFF file" (selects multiple TIFF output. (huh?))

Thats a bug I think. I'll look at it

> "a layered Photoshop file" (switches it to PTStitcher).

Which explains why we still have PTStitcher as a stitching engine. I need to
look at why nona isn't selected.

> 
> oh... LOL... I just noticed that if you set it to PTStitcher, it
> changes all the options there. So that explains what douglas was
> talking about when he said that new6 isn't really possible, because
> switching it to PTStitcher is going to have to add a ton of widgets
> into it. Bleh.

Bleh indeed :-) This is the reason why the UI is a bit tricky for output. By
attempting to cater for all options, we have produced something which is not
exactly simple. This thread should however open the way to something better. I
really appreciate the effort and feed-back :-)

[snip]
> Thinking about it a bit, the preferences window should have a new tab
> for nona and a new tab for PTStitcher, and then crazy stuff like
> "interpolator" could be moved there. Does anybody even know what the
> interpolator does? I don't, and I don't think it's important enough to
> have it right there on the stitcher window.

I must admit I use the interpolator setting quite frequently, but perhaps most
don't. Another alternative: an "advanced" section in the stitcher tab (that can
be hidden/exposed by a button) with these options on it?

regards,
Doug



	
	
		
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