Horizontal layout

[mottosso]

I'd like to put the preview at the center of attention.

Something more akin to this.

What do you think?

[BigRoy]

I like it!

You have some ideas on how to set that up without stepping away of the possibility to "plug in" extra opton widgets? Currently it's set up as a way that could become extendable. Like a studio using the gui and adding in a custom widget for their own setting manipulation (something we might want to do at Colorbleed). Something remains simple as it is basically a flat list. :)

[mottosso]

You have some ideas on how to set that up without stepping away of the possibility to "plug in" extra opton widgets?

Oo, I think personally I would keep it simple and let people subclass things.

It depends on what you would like people to plug-in. If you are talking "anything", then I would go for subclassing. But if you are talking "more option checkboxes", then maybe a plug-in-style architecture could fit. But even then, I would probably facilitate subclassing instead.

Read up on inversion of control (IoC) and see how you could utilise that.