Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Bitmap export options

[Luke Hart <lukeh@xxxxxxxx>]

Alex Bligh wrote:
> I'm a little bit confused about what we are doing about
> bitmap export options for 0.7, and thereafter.
As far as I know the only change for the 0.7 release is the addition of 
the preview dialog. After the release selection of the type will move 
into the export dialog (dialog A, you refer to below).
> On Xtreme, when you export as a bitmap, you
> do this by choosing a bitmap format from
> the export "save as" dialog, one of two
> dialogs appear, the one with the preview (A), and the
> one without (B). These are two fundamentally different
> dialogs as far as I can see. The latter (B) is used
> by e.g. PICT, TIFF etc.
I suspect that different formats will need different options, maybe 
these could be implemented by replacing the existing options tab with 
one suitable for the export format.
> What I understand is happening on LX is that
> we are going to have 2 menu options "export as
> vector" and "export as bitmap", and assuming
> the latter is selected, then dialog (A)
> is going to appear. Does that mean all the
> options from (B) are now going to appear
> in (A) too? Does that mean that it will be
> possible to swap to/from fileformats (e.g.
> the ImageMagick ones) using the appropriate
> combo boxes inside dialog (A) (logically
> the answer must be yes).
Yes, the extra options are just more another (or to be more precise a 
different) notebook tab.
> What this effectively means (I think) is we are
> using dialog (A) to determine the file format,
> simply because anyone who wants to set export-type
> specific options will first need to set the
> file format. Does that mean we then shouldn't be able
> to switch it using the subsequent "file
> export" dialog (this would seem fair enough,
> and would get rid of the lunatic file type
> box). So (for instance) if you choose "JPEG" in
> dialog box A, the second dialog would only allow
> you a "JPEG" and "all files" filter, which would
> only affect what files you see in the window, not
> how the file is saved. Is the UI of this suitable?
> IE how do people know whether they are selecting
> PNG or JPEG or whatever when there are /two/
> drop-downs (A and B) (I've never worked out what
> these do).
Far to many A and B's fore my liking 8-). No switching is implemented 
yet, the 2 combos are a hold-over from Xtreme. Since switching isn't 
supported yet, it makes sense to remove them.
> If I'm right so far, what is happening in 0.7.
> Specifically as I understand it, in 0.7 we are
> /not/ reversing the dialog order now. In which
> case given dialog (B) does not currently exist
> in LX (as far as I can tell) and would have
> a very short life anyway, what's happening with
> export options for filters that don't support
> preview (ImageMagick for instance)?
>
> Alex