[sldev] Project looking for a home: (VWR-10924) Magical scripted HUD/UI

[Mike Monkowski]

OK, looks like Imprudence will be home after all.  They should be at 
1.23 by the end of the month.  Meanwhile, most of the issues below 
(especially documentation) can be done without running code.

Mike

Mike Monkowski wrote:
> Admiral Admiral and I have been working on a project whose goal is to 
> have floaters interact with in-world objects. The patch described below 
> implements the major pieces, but now we have to finish the details, and 
> that requires community input.  Specifically:
> 
> 1. Determine which UI events to send to the object. For example, a 
> button press has a mouse-down and a mouse-up event. Do we send both or 
> just one? And if one, which one? The XUI trace function that we added 
> shows the events. We've already suppressed some that we felt shouldn't 
> be sent, such as scrolling. There's much more to do.
> 
> 2. Determine a format for the messages sent to objects.
> 
> 3. Some UI operations require interactions between widgets, for example 
> pressing a button to send the text in an editor window. What are the 
> interactions that need to be defined? How can this interaction be 
> represented in XML? The on-click tag used for menu items seems the best 
> way at the moment, but the implementation of on-click seems to be a 
> work-in-progress at the moment. Will it persist into viewer 2.0?
> 
> 4. With this patch an object can send a notecard with the XUI definition 
> that the user can instantiate as a floater then manually enter a chat 
> channel for communication. How much of this should be automatic? How 
> should the chat channel be defined?
> 
> 5. Documentation. There are a lot of XML parameters in the XUI. See 
> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Skinning_HowTo/Basics#Related_to_layout 
> If we expect residents to define XUI floaters, we should teach them how 
> to do it.
> 
> So we're looking for an open source viewer that would provide a home for 
> this project.  Imprudence looked like the best candidate because of 
> their work on UI issues, but they're still based on version 1.21 and are 
> only upgrading to 1.22.  This patch requires a 1.23.4 base.  Of course 
> we don't know what happens when Linden goes to viewer 2.0.  All of this 
> may break.  A comment either way from Linden would be nice.
> 
> Anyone care to adopt us?  You only get one programmer though.  Admiral 
> Admiral has his new laptop which, of course, does not have the required 
> but obsolete VS2005.  Grrr.
> 
> Mike
> Mm Alder
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [JIRA] Updated: (VWR-10924) Magical scripted HUD/UI
> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:26:51 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Admiral Admiral (JIRA) <no-reply at lindenlab.cascadeo.com>
> To: monkowsk at watson.ibm.com
> 
> 
>       [ 
> http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-10924?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel 
> ]
> 
> Admiral Admiral updated VWR-10924:
> ----------------------------------
> 
>      Attachment: MSH1.patchfile
> 
> The patch MSH1.patchfile adds the following functions:
> 
> --Tracing all GUI operations to the log file
>      Advanced->XUI->Trace XUI to Log
> 
> --Tracing all GUI operations to a floater
>      Advanced->XUI->Trace XUI to Console
> 
> --Load and trace a floater from an XML file and send the trace over chat
>      Advanced->XUI->Preview XUI...
> 
> --Load and trace a floater from a notecard and send the trace over chat
>      "Build Floater" after opening or creating a notecard whose contents 
> start with "<?xml "
> 
> You should apply the patches at VWR-14475 and VWR-15310
> before this one.
> 
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