[opensource-dev] How is the XUI part of the interface designed?

[Kent Quirk (Q Linden)]

There's no GUI editor. However, there is a nice little assistance tool. From the login screen ONLY, you can invoke the GUI Preview tool by hitting alt-ctrl-T (or cmd-ctrl-T on a Mac). It will bring up a dialog that you can use to display any of our dialog boxes, in two languages at once if you want. If you configure it, you can also have it open the dialog file in your text editor, and the "show rectangles" checkbox makes it easy to see which parts of the dialog have which names. 

If you edit a dialog, you can show and hide it, and it will reload. So you should be able to experiment with a layout rather easily; it's not a live graphical editor, but it makes it pretty easy to edit. Just realize the dialogs are not "live", and so sometimes things won't look right, or may have overlapping fields because only one of them is visible at any given time.

	Q


On Oct 6, 2010, at 8:15 PM, Richard Nelson wrote:

> Unfortunately there is no GUI editor for UI layout.  We currently  
> hand-edit XML.  A GUI editor is something I've wanted to do for a while,  
> and the framework is mostly in place.  But it is still a pretty large task  
> to undertake.
> 
> R.
> 
> On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:02:26 -0700, Robert Martin <robertltux at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Rob Nelson  
>> <nexisentertainment at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> There's a GUI editor, but last I checked, only LL employees and a  
>>> select few
>>> really know how to use it;  The manual is still in some LL wiki  
>>> somewhere.
>>> 
>>> Rob
>> 
>> oh really could Some Linden please put both on the public wiki  
>> somewhere??
>> 
> 
> 
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