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SwatPhonLab / UltraTrace

A Free/Open-Source tool for manual annotation of Ultrasound Tongue Imaging data.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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GUI redesign #93

Open jonorthwash opened 4 years ago

jonorthwash commented 4 years ago

The GUI (at least the control area) needs to be redesigned a bit.

I like the results of our initial experiments with icons. See also the concepts in /dev, e.g. https://github.com/SwatPhonLab/UltraTrace/blob/master/dev/gui-mockup.svg

jonorthwash commented 4 years ago

@keggsmurph21, I think this task would be up your alley (a little more than for the rest of us at least).

keggsmurph21 commented 4 years ago

I'll look into this. I had tried to get my hands dirty a few weeks ago, but got frustrated with tkinter, so I started writing a declarative markup language that would wrap around tkinter specifically for this purpose. (In fact, I've been using this as my reference file.)

Finishing that in time for the conference might be a bit out of scope, but I can definitely take another stab at fixing the GUI.

jonorthwash commented 4 years ago

@keggsmurph21, any thoughts/progress on this?

keggsmurph21 commented 4 years ago

Yeah I've thought a bit about it. @calebho and I think we could probably hack some improvements together with tkinter, but it would be relatively ugly / difficult to maintain.

We're going to explore some alternatives (probably do a small POC with some subset of wxPython, PyQt, and/or javascript via RPC) once we have the model API nailed down a bit more.

jonorthwash commented 4 years ago

I think some hacks in tkinter would be good for the abstract (due Jan 15). Reimplementing everything can wait until after we have the abstract in.

jonorthwash commented 4 years ago

Hi @keggsmurph21, @calebho. I know there's work on a UI rewrite in a branch. Could someone fill me in on the vision guiding that?

I seem to remember some discussion about a browser-based front-end? I ask now because I could see blueprint.js's sidebar (or similar) being a really useful addition for this project.

kmurphy4 commented 4 years ago

Hey Jonathan -- we were thinking of writing an Electron frontend, which is very similar to running the application in a web browser. We can take a look at the link you posted as the UI gets designed. I've been swamped the past few weeks, but will hopefully have some time to work on this over the next few weeks. Thanks for the heads up!