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| Andy80 | hi | 15:41 |
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| Andy80 | is there anyone that can give me some ideas for my UI? As you can see it's quite ugly: http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/7198/creditchecker.jpg | 15:42 |
| lcuk | Andy80, is there a widget related to that | 15:43 |
| Andy80 | lcuk: I'm using Qt | 15:43 |
| lcuk | yes, same question | 15:43 |
| Andy80 | lcuk: in particular QTableWidget to display data | 15:43 |
| lcuk | Andy80, does it sometimes have more/less inof? | 15:45 |
| lcuk | info | 15:45 |
| Andy80 | maybe I could enlarge the first column (I just have to digg into the documentation to look for the right property) but... it's not only this, it's in general... I've seen a similar (same functionality) application for iPhone and it looks so good! | 15:46 |
| Andy80 | lcuk: yes, it depends by the carrier | 15:46 |
| Andy80 | lcuk: I've created a main class (that's just a test) and each carrier inherits from it and add rows | 15:46 |
| lcuk | ok, firstly, you have so much space that you can afford to remove the ... | 15:46 |
| Andy80 | lcuk: I know, I've to make column 1 larger | 15:47 |
| lcuk | most title areas have icon in left with title text after it - ie move 3 logo to left (and a bit bgger) | 15:47 |
| lcuk | then the carrier name after in larger font (you have all the space in the world) | 15:48 |
| * Andy80 take notes... | 15:48 | |
| lcuk | if i was more awake id redraw it myself, the info just looks cramped atm like you are struggling for space | 15:49 |
| Andy80 | I'll ask my friend if he cans end me a screenshot of his similar app for iphone so we can take some idea, but widgets are totally different :\ | 15:51 |
| lcuk | yes ofcourse widgets are space constrained | 15:52 |
| lcuk | hence me asking | 15:52 |
| lcuk | what do the 3 rows of data say | 15:53 |
| lcuk | im guessing "available credit" for the first one | 15:53 |
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| lcuk | but what about the others | 15:53 |
| Andy80 | oh... it's just an example | 15:55 |
| Andy80 | foo data | 15:55 |
| Andy80 | except "Naviga 3" that it's real | 15:55 |
| Andy80 | it's an option that gives you 100Mb data/day and costs 9€/month | 15:56 |
| Andy80 | that row shows you how much traffic you've used during day | 15:56 |
| * lcuk nods | 15:57 | |
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| lcuk | Andy80, how often does it refresh, is it automatic after a call | 15:58 |
| lcuk | or only when you bring the dialog up | 15:58 |
| Andy80 | the second option you said | 15:59 |
| Andy80 | please note: at the moment I only have the backend library and a prototype GUI: the gui still doesn't call the library methods :) | 15:59 |
| Andy80 | it's just example data | 16:00 |
| lcuk | Andy80, thats ok | 16:01 |
| Andy80 | I want to manage that part in another moment... because it's not UI related | 16:01 |
| lcuk | yeah of course | 16:02 |
| Andy80 | maybe a "Refresh" button, just like the gPodder UI on top of it... what do you think about? | 16:03 |
| lcuk | how often do you need to keep it refreshed | 16:05 |
| Andy80 | not much :) because there's a weird problem, at least with ThreeHG website | 16:05 |
| lcuk | every carrier is weird | 16:06 |
| Andy80 | they don't refresh data on your personal area in their website | 16:06 |
| Andy80 | until you close the connection :D | 16:06 |
| Andy80 | so... if you just stay connected and consume 20Mb of traffic, you can refresh as many times you want... the traffic would be still 0 Mb / 100 Mb | 16:07 |
| lcuk | gah, why doesnt real paper have undo | 16:08 |
| lcuk | there are internal data counters | 16:08 |
| lcuk | on the device itself | 16:08 |
| lcuk | whilst i find it for you (someone made a neat widget out of them) heres a qt widget article which might be useful to you in future | 16:09 |
| lcuk | http://kgronholm.blogspot.com/2010/02/desktop-widgets-with-qt-qml.html | 16:09 |
| lcuk | http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/personal-gprs-mon/ | 16:10 |
| Andy80 | oh I did read it, but it's C++, I'm writing my app in Python. I asked to PySide guys if they can translate it to Python and adapt it, but it's still a work in progress.. | 16:10 |
| lcuk | so that part can be monitored direct and updated without contacting 3 each time | 16:10 |
| lcuk | ok, just thought it would be handy | 16:11 |
| Andy80 | but I can give a look to personal-gps-mon | 16:11 |
| lcuk | yeah, perhaps you can extract some of your metrics from the same api | 16:11 |
| lcuk | and on monday when some of the real ui people wake up they might be able to give you a bit more of a layout than i can do ;) | 16:12 |
| Andy80 | yes :) my problem is that my free time to work on this stuff is usually during weekend or during night :D | 16:15 |
| Andy80 | and I can understand that it's not working time for them ;) | 16:15 |
| * lcuk nods sagely | 16:16 | |
| lcuk | Andy80, http://liqbase.net/liq.creditcheck.andy80.20100228_001.jpg is how i would try to make it (roughly) | 16:26 |
| Andy80 | lcuk: you gave me a couple of ideas :) | 16:26 |
| Andy80 | for example the indentation | 16:27 |
| lcuk | cool Andy80 :) just try to show and emphasise the information and when you have so much space dont hide behind ... ;) | 16:29 |
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