I recently started looking into ways of improving the UI of my modules, Textimage specifically, and I came across the jQuery UI module. While I had previously been aware of the module, I never actually got around to looking into it.

After a bit of playing around with it, including the submission of a patch to hopefully make it easier for end users to install, I decided it was definitely a viable solution and I then proceeded to implement it.

The current changes are only very minor, adding tabs to the Textimage preset create/edit form, but they already, in my opinion, increase the usability of the administration side of things.

However, jQuery UI will not become a requirement for Textimage, the previous interface will still remain when the jQuery UI module is not installed/enabled, and will also receive some minor tweaks.

The changes are available to download in the latest development builds, which also includes some tweaks to the text outlines, now made visible when you are using a non-transparent background.

For more information, or to download the latest builds, head over to the project page: http://drupal.org/project/textimage