Ok... colors... I tend to favor deeper, richer colors (though of course contrast is also important).
Colors alone are inadequate though - I think additional information should be made available on hover (mouse over an element after a short delay) - perhaps as a tooltip or in some reserved area of the display (either choice can be annoying, but mostly if you want to use that part of the screen for something else). Note that position and font attributes can also be used. And, of course, both foreground and background colors can be used. But honestly, that's all meaningless. To get colors right, I would want to experiment with them until I found a set that I liked. And, for that, I guess I should have in mind some examples that show all the different possibilities. Does anyone have a representative set of test sentences to consider?? Thanks, -- Raul On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 8/8/2014 1:08 PM, Raul Miller wrote: > >> I have it installed, and I tried it on this sentence: >> >> (+/%#)&.:*: i.3 3 3 >> >> Here are some observations: >> >> That sentence results in a tall narrow graph (on a short, wide laptop >> display). It would be nice to have some kind of ability to scroll or >> rearrange display components. >> > > You can scroll by holding down the mouse anywhere outside a box and > dragging the display around. > > Rearranging the display would be cool, maybe in a later release. > > > >> selection did not work. I first tried selecting an element in the bottom >> result (nothing happened) and then I tried selecting an element in the >> middle +/ result (which gave me an error in paint - lengtherror: >> addselecttoDOL) >> > > That's a bug. The display of +/ SAYS it's rank 3 3, but it SHOWS 2 3 3, > as if the program got confused about what the outputs are. It should > display the result (rank 3 3), which would then expand if you click it to > add a node showing the intermediate results. Clicks in other results > should highlight the result and the cells that contribute, but they don't. > I'll fix it. > > > >> The Max Noun (% of scrn) and Show ][/Hide ][ elements at the top of the >> screen seem to do nothing for me. >> > > They do nothing on this testcase, because you don't use ][ and you have no > noun larger than 30% of the screen. Now that you mention it, I would do > well to hide those buttons when they have no effect, wouldn't I? > > > >> The rank background color on verbs is so subtle it might as well not be >> distinct from the rest of the background. Numbers probably need another >> row >> of pixels underneath them, because _ is hard to read. >> > > Will do. > > > >> I am not going to comment on the color scheme. >> > > I wish you would - I have no great commitment to what's there but there is > an awful lot of information to get across if color could be used > effectively. > > >> Thanks, >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
