Small Icons are being "scrunched" in the Ribbon

[Chris Heidt]

Not Scrunched

Scrunched

Need to enforce spacing to support the 16x16 icons whn the label are disabled.

[Bruce Schubert]

TODO: Investigate BasicBandControlPanelUI. Examine how TOP_ROW, MID_ROW, BOTTOM_ROW properties are used.

Idea: Display only two rows.

[Bruce Schubert]

Overriding the BasicBandControlPanelUI is very tedious. The base class LayoutContainer() method uses a private class which has private access to the flaminigo namespace, so simply copying and pasting and modifying is not possible.

Investigated groupTitles, which constrain the number of buttons rows to 2, but it didn't work - command buttons cannot be added to groups with titles. Not sure why this constraint exists. Promising, but more investigation needed.

[Bruce Schubert]

Suggestion: Replace the standard icons with custom 16x16 icons that have some clear space for top and bottom margins (two or three pixels should do).

Some evidence of this technique can be seen in the latest Terramenta where a "star" is used for the Favorites.

[Bruce Schubert]

Reopened for icon update.

[Bruce Schubert]

Here's a proof of concept from WMT:

My icons could be a little smaller still.

[Chris Heidt]

We can except this work around for the 1.3.1 FINAL milestone. I'd like to continue pressing this for a more elegant solution for the 2.0 FINAL milestone though.

[Bruce Schubert]

Here's how I'm dealing with this issue in WMT (see changeset in WMT issue # 73):

[Chris Heidt]

At this time there are work arounds and the level of effort to patch the old ribbon implementation is not wort the outcome. New ribbon components are being worked on.