Re: decorations and adornments

From: Andrei Adamchik (aadamchi..obox.com)
Date: Fri May 11 2001 - 14:47:01 EDT


I can start ordering the graphics from my friends.

One question - startup splash screen. Before asking people to do it, we
should come up with some ideas of what is going to be there. The same is
true for the cayenne project logo. Any ideas?

Andrei

At 02:22 PM 5/11/2001 -0400, Andriy Shapochka wrote:
>There is a list of images we will need for our Modeler GUI tool. It is
>definitely far from complete yet useful to estimate amount of work. Most
>of images are supposed to be 16*16 gif files. Also, sometimes we will be
>able to use the same images for different actions (like Properties). And,
>I am sure, there are redundant ones. Anyway, we have to think design over
>from this point of view unless we are going to end with really ugly GUI.
>
>Common images
>===============================
>1)Logo for Help->About (jpeg, size - 64*64 or so)
>2)Main frame icon (gif, 16*16)
>3)Icons for several OSes (.ico for Win, .png for Linux, etc)
>
>Menu/Button images (gif, 16*16)
>===============================
>4)New,Open,Save,Save As,Close,Rename,Delete,Check,Properties model
>5)New,Delete,Properties ObjEntity
>6)New,Delete,Properties ObjAttribute
>7)New,Delete,Properties ObjRelationship
>8)New,Delete,Properties DbEntity
>9)New,Delete,Properties DbAttribute
>10)New,Delete,Properties DbRelationship
>11)New,Delete,Execute,Compile into SQL,Properties Query
>12)Configure database connection information
>13)Connect,Disconnect to database
>14)Refresh database metadata
>15)New,Delete,Properties DataNode
>16)New,Delete,Properties DataDomain
>17)Create Java class by entity
>18)Create table definition by entity
>19)Help: About, Contents, etc.
>
>Adornments (gif, 16*16)
>==========================================
>20)Model, ObjEntity, ObjAttribute, ObjRelationship, DbEntity, DbAttribute,
>DbRelationship, Various kindes of database metadata, query images for our
>treelike browsers.
>21)Images for tabs corresponding to different browsers (Obj, Db, Metadata)
>
>22) so on, so forth. For example it would be desirable to replace the
>icons in wellknown Error,Warning,... dialogs with custommade ours.
>
>At early stages of Modeler prototyping we can use substitutes or defaults
>instead, but to my best knowledge the sooner we get more or less
>appropriate set of images the more comfortable we feel with GUI
>development (ideally one should have image,... resources before the
>implementation stage of work).
>Next, as I believe development without seeing preliminary user-friendly
>results tends to get boring sometimes, I suggest (to myself, first of all)
>to begin with the simplest treelike DataModel browser. Firstly it is going
>to be rather ugly creature (imagine buttons with text instead of decently
>drawn images and trees with sheets of white paper as leaves). But we will
>have something to experience and utilize as a test tool.
>
>Andriy.
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Andrei



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