Better space exploitation by OMEdit

[anonymous]

We OMEdit users are always hungry for space on our computer screens.
At present, OMedit does not care enough about space.
Two suggestions:

1) When the plot legend is on top, the space above and below its text is too large, and steals room useful for the plot. This is especially evident when the number of variables requires a two-row legend. I would recommend to reduce this space above and below the legend text significantly

2) Modelica output tends to have a lot of variables. The "find Variables" feature is very useful in finding what needed.
However the vertical space above and below each variable's name in the "Variables browser" is too large. If technically feasible with small effort, I would recommend to reduce this space by around one third.

[Rüdiger Franke]

One might also move the message browser from the main window to the additionally popping up Simulation Output window. The latter has already two tabs for Output and Compilation and would then get a third tab. This way a lot of space would become available in the main window. Moreover this would simplify the browsing of messages because the simulation output restarts for each simulation and it typically shows more text lines in its default size.

[Adeel Asghar]

Replying to rfranke:

One might also move the message browser from the main window to the additionally popping up Simulation Output window. The latter has already two tabs for Output and Compilation and would then get a third tab. This way a lot of space would become available in the main window. Moreover this would simplify the browsing of messages because the simulation output restarts for each simulation and it typically shows more text lines in its default size.

No, this is never going to happen. Messages Browser is used to display all kind of messages whereas simulation output window only shows output of simulation executable.

However, since Messages Browser is part of the MainWindow so you can dock it to right or left.

[Rüdiger Franke]

OK. Undocking the Messages Browser is fine.

[Martin Sjölund]

Milestone changed to 1.9.3 since 1.9.2 was released.

[anonymous]

Maybe just point 1 can be addressed?
It should be straightforward, I suppose.
Thank you.

[Martin Sjölund]

Moved to new milestone 1.9.4

[Adeel Asghar]

This issue has now been fixed in a development branch ​https://github.com/adeas31/OMEdit/tree/indentation for OpenModelica 1.9.4 final release.

Only point 2 is addressed. The "find variables" feature is now collapsible and also space above and below each variable is removed.

Point 1 is not possible because it is part of the 3rdParty tool (Qwt) we are using.

[Adeel Asghar]

The fix is now available via the nightly build.

[Martin Sjölund]

Milestone renamed

[Martin Sjölund]

Milestone renamed