Widgets

This document will contain the list of possibly desired widgets for the UI. This will be used to discuss what we really, really want, what would be nice, and what could be postponed or even ignored indefinitely.

Windows

Contain groups of Widgets

Use Cases: Options Dialog, Debugging Window, Save/Open Window

Buttons

Will trigger events to occur when released

Use Cases: Pause, Play, Skip, Open Options, Menus, changing modes, Places...

Text Box

Will display text either as a label, description, or otherwise

Use Cases: Options Dialog, Tables

Input Box

Allow user to modify a value

Options dialog..., Turn input

Table

Shows data in an organized fashion

Use cases: Debug window for a list of values, Bottom of screen for showing timeline tracks?

Slider

Numeric number modifier

Use cases: Turn slider at bottom of screen, speed modifier, numeric options, scrolling up/down or left/right on a window.

Radio Buttons

Could just use slider, I guess

Toolbar Menu

Contains buttons which will allow the user to open new glogs, options, etc.

Things That Are a Must Have

• Open Glog Dialog or something similar
• Some way of intuitively controlling the timeline

Possible Short-Time Fixes

• Leverage Tkinter for menus, open-file dialogs, and drag n’ drop until a non-Tkinter approach is decided upon. This may have to be the solution we continue to use for dialogs and drag n’ drop since it is packaged with python and other solutions may be costly for us (time and packaging).