Add Help button in enblend options dialog

Bug #1678621 reported by zarl
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Bug Description

The dialog can be found in
editor window >> Stitcher tab > Processing: Blender: enblend: [Options]

It would be nice to have a help button just like the one available in the preferences dialog (grouped with the Cancel and OK buttons). In this case it should probably link to /help/Enblend.html of Hugin's built in help pages. That way users can quickly look up command line arguments available for the current version of enblend without cluttering up the UI with a list of available options. (note to self: panotools wiki pages need an update to reflect the new command line arguments of enblend and how to combine them, also with a comparison to the behaviour of earlier versions of enblend prior to version 4.2)

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tmodes (tmodes) wrote :

Implemented in changeset 78863b6454f2.

Changed in hugin:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
milestone: none → 2017.0beta1
status: New → Fix Committed
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zarl (carl-einem) wrote :

Thanks, Thomas!

I'm already looking forward to the next beta version.
:-)

Carl

tmodes (tmodes)
Changed in hugin:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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zarl (carl-einem) wrote :

Hello Thomas,

earlier versions of Hugin displayed the help files in the user's standard browser. Now an integrated help viewer is used.

The help button now opens such a window but that can't be scrolled etc. at least on OS X since the enblend dialog is a modal window. I'm not sure how this can be solved in an elegant way without making the user close the dialog again to read the help page.

Cheers,
Carl

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zarl (carl-einem) wrote :

As a follow up this problem also affects the help button in the Preferences window.
Tested on OS X 10.11

I only can think of a quick solution for the enblend options dialog: The button could also be placed directly in the main window which is not modal.

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