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Bruno Postle  
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 More options Mar 13 2011, 5:51 pm
From: Bruno Postle <br...@postle.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:51:10 +0000
Local: Sun, Mar 13 2011 5:51 pm
Subject: Re: [hugin-ptx] Re: how should hugin interact with plugins?
On Sun 13-Mar-2011 at 07:52 -0700, kfj wrote:

>On 13 Mrz., 14:09, Bruno Postle <br...@postle.net> wrote:

>> I was referring to the GUI selection, you can Ctrl-click photos in
>> the Images tab, then the various 'action' buttons on the right hand
>> side only operate on these photos.  I would expect a plugin to work
>> the same way.

>What data structure contains the information of this selection?

No idea, I suspect the selection only exists at the wxwidgets level.

>I have previously suggested to allow plugin access via a context menu.
>Since the context would establish what objects the operation is
>intended for choosing the right type of plugin should be easy. We
>don't use context menus in hugin at all, do we? I think that the
>operations that currently perform on the selected subset might be more
>obviously accessed by a context menu, whereas with the current design
>the user may be ignorant that the button he's pressing will only
>affect the selected items and not the whole list. I remember people
>asking stuff here like how can they selectively remove CPs for certain
>images - selecting the images and clicking on 'remove CPs' did not
>occur to them naturally.

Context menus in these lists of photos, and things like being able
to drag them would help general usability.  Though I think functions
that are only available in context menus would be hidden from users
who don't know they are there.

--
Bruno


 
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