Names/labels for layouts?

[polyzium]

Sometimes, I need to resize a window to 720p or 1080p on an ultrawide or 2K monitor. Would layout labels in Popup Mode be useful for reminding users what each layout is for, similar to the special layouts?

I could implement this feature.

[rxappdev]

Do you mean:
1: this I call "text" or well t, it's centered in each tile inside a layout - I guess if user can define this, there could be chaos
2: this I call "hint", I guess this is where you want to put it? That's like a two line implementation, should be easy to do.
3: this was originally where I was planning to put "name" in the GUI editor. Originally you could do like 1x1-Fullscreen and the Fullscreen would appear in editor below layout. Obviously this does not work for active tiler.

Anyway, I changed the - separator to ; so I can now support negative values for SPECIAL_EMPTY so you could make a tile that goes -50, 0, 100, 100 so it would span half left monitor, and half current monitor.

I do not think I will ever implement full GUI editor, however I am planning to implement a layout designer.
So you can design a layout, then copy the string into System Settings.

[rxappdev]

There is no way to read values from the script inside System Settings. However the opposite is obviously possible. So the layout editor sadly cannot directly feed into System Settings.

[polyzium]

I'm inbetween the options 1 and 2. Option 3 would contribute to the clutter.

Regarding the config GUI: you could at least make a basic webapp that would generate the layout config for you and then you could copy it into the script settings.

Edit: maybe it is theoretically possible to embed a QtWebEngineView inside the config UI?

[rxappdev]

No idea about QtWebEngineView. Not familiar with it. But can look into it tomorrow.

I uploaded a beta for you here:
https://github.com/rxappdev/MouseTiler/releases/tag/beta_releases

Fixed absolute values in Overlay Mode (had to re-work spanning completely).
Should now support everything you mentioned including tile size in hint.

Let me know what you think and if I should change something.

v2.1.0

Added support for absolute pixel values in Overlay Tiler.

Added support for anchor point using the format: [X,Y,Width,Height,AnchorX,AnchorY]
Example:
50,50,320px,240px,CENTER,CENTER - places a 320x240 pixels large tile in the middle of the screen
100,100,50,25,RIGHT,100 - places a 50% wide, 25% high tile in the lower right corner of the screen
Valid values for AnchorX: 0-100, LEFT, CENTER, RIGHT
Valid values for AnchorY: 0-100, TOP, CENTER, BOTTOM

It is now possible to show position and size hint for regular tiles in Popup Grid mode.

I'm heading to bed now. Was supposed to sleep about 6-7 hours ago, it's already 8:48 am :)

[rxappdev]

[polyzium]

Hey, I just woke up and tested the new version. It feels good enough for this use case, but I'm sure someone would want custom user-defined labels.

I also noticed that the position display doesn't seem to respect the anchored position, it displays X: 0 and Y: 0.

[rxappdev]

I will test more today/tonight, just woke up myself. Went to bed at 9:20 am or something... it's 21:11 already. At least I got lots of rest :)

I made it so it always shows the position of upper left corner and not the position of the anchor, maybe that's what you see?

Anyway, I will find our more during testing. Need to do multi-monitor testing and such. :)

[rxappdev]

Beta 2 is now live.

I fixed the issue, and have also implemented an awesome feature - Center In Tile.
You can test this new feature by pressing Meta+Ctrl+C

[rxappdev]

Also started work on web editor :)

[polyzium]

Hi! Tried the latest version again - now the coordinates do show. No idea what happened before that.
I'll keep the issue up in case somebody wants custom labels.

[rxappdev]

There was a bug with the coordinates, fixed it in one of the patches I've uploaded.

I officially released it as v3.0.0 about 4 hours ago.

Been working over 18 hours today. Gonna head to bed soon.