Show laserscript echo as message

[peteruithoven]

On smaller screens it's inconvenient to work with the popup laserscript uses, since it always goes behind the main screen. It might be better to put the echo's in a message. I'll first try to do it myself and do a push request.

[t-oster]

You mean a notification? We could also fix the popup to be in front.

[peteruithoven]

Yeah, like we show warnings and errors. The problem is that you get the popup when you open the file, then people want to change stuff so they put the popup aside (and forget about it). Multiple windows is basically a bad idea for smaller screens.

[peteruithoven]

I'm working on this in my fork, but I'm having the issue that the messages (Message.java) doesn't handle a lot of text properly. When there is "to much" text it doens't show a scroll bar or what I would like even more resize itself so that all the text fits. Do you have any tips for this? I don't have any Java Swing experience. https://github.com/peteruithoven/VisiCut

[t-oster]

Hmm... I also had problems with the layout stuff, especially for the Message.java... what about your facebook call on #144 ? did you find any swing layout specialist?

[peteruithoven]

I did, quite a while ago, but no response. I don't know of anyone that has experience with Java Swing. I'm seriously considering building a web interface, maybe we can use java in the background, so we can reuse most of the work.