Use re-sizable pane and allow a horizontal paperstrip #28
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Create some utilities for creating menu items so there isn't so much copy and paste of the code.
It's quite large. Split it into new -functions that create the various parts of the output panel. The waveforms (tic, toc, period, debug), the paper strip chart and its controls, and the window under the output display that contains them, each get their own function. There is some minimal support for a vertical vs horizontal paperstrip chart, but it's not used yet.
This lets the size of the paperstrip vs the waveforms be adjusted by sliding the pane between them. To get the layout right, we need to give the waveforms a minimum size. 300x150 seems about the minimum. It should look basically the same as it did before. Each snapshot has its own unique pane position. Adjusting one tab in the notebook doesn't adjust the other tabs. It might be nice if that weren't the case and they were all synced.
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I really like this functionality. I compiled and ran it on OSX10.15 (Catalina). |
This allow changing the layout so the paperstrip is horizontal, scrolling to the left, with the three waveforms arraigned horizontally below the paperstrip. The effect is to make the paperstrip longer and give it more space. For many tasks the paper strip is much more useful than the waveform displays. This allows adjusting the layout to be more useful in those cases. A new checkbox in the menu is added to control this. It can be changed on the fly and the widgets will be re-arraigned. A config file option, "vertical_paperstrip", is added to remember the current setting. Default vertical layout to true if not present in config file. If multiple snapshots are present, the change of orientation will affect all of them, rather that just the current viewed one. It would be possible to change this.
Using the size of the main app window, what was done, doesn't work so well now that the space allocation between the paperstrip and waveforms can be changed. This way making the waveforms (or paperstrip) smaller will give a smaller font that fits in the smaller space better.
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This lets the pane between the paperstrip and waveforms be resized. If one is currently more interested in one of the other.
Also adds a menu and config file option to re-arrange the widgets so that the paperstrip is drawn horizontally instead of vertically. This allows much more space, and time, for the paperstrip, which is often much more useful than the waveforms. The layout can be changed while running.
See commits for much more detail on the changes.
Example of maximizing the paperstrip in vertical layout:
Example of the horizontal paperstrip. The time show in the strip is almost double what the vertical strip fits.
