GSOC Day 47 – Design Categories and Other Fixes

I made a lot of changes to the design window today, to make it look and act much nicer and more flexibly.

The main change today was that I added a categories chooser, so you can check off which categories the design should be in and change them at will. This required making a whole new panel type (since you can’t have a popup list of checkboxes, normally), but it worked out.

There were some server bugs that gave me trouble, and some are still problematic for, say, removing all categories from a design. The basic category switching seems to work, though.

I also fixed some spacing and sizing problems with the design window – one thing, though: wx.StaticText boxes just don’t seem to like to center themselves. I dunno what it is, but I couldn’t get the ship title to move away from hugging the left side of its textbox, even when the textbox was much bigger. I kind of fixed it by adding spacers around it, and it looks relatively ok, but it’s not perfect.

Still, the design window seems to be improving to a usable state – it’s almost there.

Here’s a screenshot:

Design window with better sizing and category chooser.

I’ll submit all this for review tomorrow after making sure there’s nothing else to change.

~ by greywhind on July 9, 2009.