[work] Re: [Qgis-community-team] manual conventions

[Otto Dassau]

Hi Tara,

Am Mittwoch, den 04.06.2008, 13:51 -0700 schrieb Tara Athan:
> Otto-  We don't know precisely what the version 1.0 GUI will look like, 
> but there are certain things we can be sure of.  For example, a checkbox 
> option will have a box, either empty or with a mark in it, and a label.  
> So the style for a checkbox item would include a "checkbox icon" - which 
> could be a graphic or latex generated - and then the label. I have 
> modified the checkbox style in conventions.tex to show what I mean.

I saw it and yes, very good! I think this is already a quite nice
solution for the checkbox. Maybe others have more ideas how to
define/improve the other styles.

> The shadowbox idea is interesting - we would want to explain in the 
> foreword that the shadow means clickable. It does make the items stand 
> out. However the text in the button is shifted up so much that, to my 
> eye, it interupts the text flow.   Is there anyway to adjust the shadow 
> so it is not quite so dramatic? Or perhaps adjust the vertical spacing? 
> I can't remember the command to shift something down below the baseline.

I agree, we would need to shift down the shadowbox. I don't know how to
do this, but I think it is possible to define it somehow. 

regards,
  Otto

> Tara
> 
> Otto Dassau wrote:
> > I found some more macros provided by the fancybox package and added them to
> > conventions.tex: \fbox, \shadowbox, \doublebox, \ovalbox and \Ovalbox. I also
> > tried to use them, this is really difficult to make them look similar to the
> > GUI items. Maybe the \shadowbox is useful for clickable buttons?
> >
> > regards,
> >  Otto
> >
> >