Text box and Arrow-Text usability

[enriquehdez98]

3D Slicer version: 5.10.0 (14th January main branch version)

Text box and Arrow-Text usability

• It is not possible to use a caret to move into the text and correct a previous word or letter.

• The text within the text annotation is not justified.

• There should be a "Ctrl+A" function to select all the text, which would allow for quicker removal of default text.

• In the arrow-text annotation, it is not possible to modify the size of the text box.

Moving the textbox position is currently a challenging task for the user. It's not feasible to edit an entire tutorial in a short time with the current options available to change the size and position of text annotations.

• The pointers for text annotations appear and move in unexpected ways.

• When copying and pasting large texts, the text box exceeds the screen size, and it becomes impossible to change its position or size.

• In blank slides, it is necessary to delete the initial strings, while in screenshots, when writing a new string, the initial strings are automatically deleted, which confuses the user; unify.

[DouSam]

The first item, we will work on the next version, as the caret from the branch usability doesn't work well; I have a lot of problems with that branch on my computer, regarding the problems related to code optimization. We will only develop on the next version due to the time.

[LuskasHusty]

The caret implementation was not working correctly as per testing in the text-box-fix branch. Because of the new use cases for the textbox on the non screenshot slides, its implementation has become incompatible. In the future we will be rewriting how we handle text so that text formatting and editing becomes better, we intend on using the QTextDocument for the rich formatting and QTextCursor for the cursor (caret).

Please elaborate, the text is lefft aligned by default.

Hand in hand with the caret point.

Was this a issue? For now we will have to use the textBox with a textless arrow.

For the remaining usability points, we will have to work on it later, for now the text controllers have been fixed.