[AG-TECH] Autoplace

[Breuer, Roman]

Bob, 
you are right, but when reopening autoplace, you don't get a visual
feedback in the canvas.... ;) The rectangle is not redrawn. 
I read, that Tom changed the wrong inking of the rectangle. It shoud now
really be filled with the blue color, but this version of autoplace is
not included in AG3 :(

Regards,
Roman

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Dipl.-Inform. Roman Breuer
Multimedia und Video
Rechen- und Kommunikationszentrum der RWTH Aachen
Seffenter Weg 23
 
52074 Aachen
Germany
 
Tel.: +49 (0) 241 / 80 29247
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Olson [mailto:olson at mcs.anl.gov]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 4:54 PM
> To: Breuer, Roman
> Cc: Thomas D. Uram; ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Autoplace
> 
> (wow, that code is really old now :-). I wrote the original version
> of it way back when).
> 
> You're exactly correct on  #1 and #2, but wrt #3, there should be a
> button that saves the current autoplace settings as the default.
> 
> --bob
> 
> On May 15, 2006, at 3:20 AM, Breuer, Roman wrote:
> 
> > Tom,
> > I think that the policy autoplace uses is not that, what I want. I
> > don't
> > know how much work it will be, but the points I don't like are:
> >
> > 1) When you draw the placing area, the resulting placing grid is
> > computed with respect to the selected window size. When you the
select
> > an other window size the grid is not computed again.
> >
> > 2) The placing grid does not consider the display borders. So
windows
> > are sometimes shown half on one display and half on the other
display.
> > That's not acceptable especially when the displays are surrounded
with
> > frames such as rear projections or SMARTboards.
> >
> > 3) The placing area has to be shown everytime. Even if you close and
> > reopen autoplace.
> >
> > That are some points I would like to change. I hope it is OK, that I
> > will so this. Or are there any restrictions in changing the code?
> > Or are
> > there already any attempts for those changes?
> >
> > Regards and good luck for the AG-Retreat2006. Unfortunately I could
> > not
> > come :(
> >
> > Roman
> > ---------------------------------------
> > Dipl.-Inform. Roman Breuer
> > Multimedia und Video
> > Rechen- und Kommunikationszentrum der RWTH Aachen
> > Seffenter Weg 23
> >
> > 52074 Aachen
> > Germany
> >
> > Tel.: +49 (0) 241 / 80 29247
> > Fax: +49 (0) 241 / 80 6 29247
> > Web: http://www.rz.rwth-aachen.de
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Thomas D. Uram [mailto:turam at mcs.anl.gov]
> >> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 5:54 PM
> >> To: Breuer, Roman
> >> Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> >> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Autoplace
> >>
> >> Hi Roman:
> >>
> >> That functionality is only in the AccessGrid vic, in the
> >> autoplace_ui.tcl file,
> >> in the ag-media cvs module.  You can view the file online here:
> >>
> >> http://fl-cvs.mcs.anl.gov/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/ag-
> >> media/vic/tcl/autoplace_ui.tcl
> >>
> >> If you're building on Linux, I'd recommend that you use the
vic-build
> >> script.
> >> On Windows, we use something like this:
> >>
> >> cd ag-media
> >> devenv vic\vic.sln /build "DDraw Release"
> >>
> >> Can you say more about the changes you plan for autoplace?
> >>
> >> Tom
> >>
> >>
> >> Breuer, Roman wrote:
> >>> Hi everyone,
> >>> I think my last mail was somehow not delivered to this list (or
> > maybe I
> >>> wrote to the wrong list ...), but can anyone tell me where I can
> > find
> >>> the sources of the vic-autoplace functionality. And how to rebuild
> > vic
> >>> for AG, after changing a few things? Maybe there are websites I
have
> > not
> >>> discovered yet, with this info I need.
> >>>
> >>> Best Regards,
> >>> Roman
> >>>
> >>> ---------------------------------------
> >>> Dipl.-Inform. Roman Breuer
> >>> Multimedia und Video
> >>> Rechen- und Kommunikationszentrum der RWTH Aachen
> >>> Seffenter Weg 23
> >>>
> >>> 52074 Aachen
> >>> Germany
> >>>
> >>> Tel.: +49 (0) 241 / 80 29247
> >>> Fax: +49 (0) 241 / 80 6 29247
> >>> Web: http://www.rz.rwth-aachen.de
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
>