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johndeverall / BehaviourCoder

A basic behaviour coder for video analysis
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Need to be able to lay out location buttons in more complex layouts #8

Closed johndeverall closed 7 years ago

johndeverall commented 8 years ago

There are a couple of options I've thought of here:

1) Buttons could be fixed on a grid using standard swing components.

Coordinate entry would work ok for generating something like this, which is a format that was useful for the Indian Myna study (Birds moving quickly between areas of a cage might indicate stress for example).

myna cage

2) Buttons could be drawn in SVG.

This library looks as if it could be useful for generating SVG.

I have not investigated whether is has enough capability to do what we require though. Other libraries available are SVG Salamander and Batik but these may require SVG images in advance or at least did last time I used them (which was a long time ago - back in 2009).

SVG would allow more complex layouts to be created. For example, lets say a researcher wanted to record the behaviour of multiple people playing hopscotch.

The following layout, or even more complex layouts (with round areas etc) would be easily possible with SVG although it may take slightly more work to implement.

hopscotch

johndeverall commented 8 years ago

@alexisgarland can you please clarify this requirement

alexisgarland commented 8 years ago

If there's a choice, it would be best to have a fairly flexible layout - these buttons are serving as kind of a "map" of areas on the video - so the more flexible it is for the user to place them, the more the interface is going to actually reflect what is going on in the video.

johndeverall commented 7 years ago

Can you please comment specifically upon the methods above that are proposed? Which method sounds better to you? With the first method, I could supply a grid of cells, of dimension x and y, where each cell was either a button, or an object (with or without a label). Objects aren't clickable, so they'd just sit there and look pretty.

varghesemathew92 commented 7 years ago

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