UI Component System Refactoring

[Licini]

UI Component System Refactoring

Overview

Complete restructuring of the compas_viewer UI architecture to implement a modern component-based system with improved modularity and maintainability.

Key Changes

New Component Architecture

• Added Component base class with standardized widget attribute and update() method
• Added BoundComponent class for components bound to object attributes with automatic value synchronization
• All UI components now inherit from Base class for consistent structure

Component Refactoring

• Replaced dialogs with integrated components: CameraSettingsDialog → CameraSetting, ObjectSettingDialog → ObjectSetting
• Enhanced existing components: Updated Slider, TextEdit, Button to use new inheritance model
• Added new components: BooleanToggle, ColorPicker, NumberEdit, Container, Tabform
• Removed deprecated components: ColorComboBox, ComboBox, DoubleEdit, LineEdit, LabelWidget

UI Structure Improvements

• Moved components to dedicated components/ folder
• Added MainWindow, StatusBar, ViewPort components
• Refactored MenuBar, ToolBar, SideDock to use new component system
• Updated UI class to use new component architecture

Technical Improvements

• Standardized component initialization with obj, attr, action parameters
• Improved data binding with automatic attribute synchronization
• Enhanced container system with scrollable and splitter options
• Updated event handling and signal connections

[tomvanmele]

@Licini perhaps for clarity it would make sense that everything that is a component actually lives inside components. this means that most of the files of ui can be moved and that ui.py itself becomes a top-level module...

[Licini]

@tomvanmele Ready to go! Maybe too much to review, we can also just merge and fix anything fast

[tomvanmele]

i assume we have to do a major release because these are breaking changes?

[Licini]

i assume we have to do a major release because these are breaking changes?

Yep, 2.0.0