Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.comwrote: On 28 Jan 2009, at 4:30 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 28, 2009, at 6:54 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 28, 2009, at 4:05 AM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: Adam, Thanks a lot! definitely no waste of time!

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-29 Thread Jonas Zimmermann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29.01.2009, at 12:23, Christiaan Hofman wrote: I've changed it to use Adam's ideas, so using Mail's procedures. The main reason is that it requires almost no UI, and the UI it adds is completely standard. One small technical

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 29 Jan 2009, at 2:02 PM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29.01.2009, at 12:23, Christiaan Hofman wrote: I've changed it to use Adam's ideas, so using Mail's procedures. The main reason is that it requires almost no UI, and the UI it adds is

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 28 Jan 2009, at 3:54 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 28, 2009, at 4:05 AM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: Adam, Thanks a lot! definitely no waste of time! Although I must say I like the Finder/Journler/attached-file-in-BD approach better (a few predefined labels, accessible via the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-29 Thread Adam R . Maxwell
On Jan 29, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: I've changed it to use Adam's ideas, so using Mail's procedures. The main reason is that it requires almost no UI, and the UI it adds is completely standard. Cool. I noticed that the colors look better with transparency, so Jonas

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 29 Jan 2009, at 4:24 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 29, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: I've changed it to use Adam's ideas, so using Mail's procedures. The main reason is that it requires almost no UI, and the UI it adds is completely standard. Cool. I noticed that

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-29 Thread Maxwell, Adam R
On 01/29/09 08:36, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 Jan 2009, at 4:24 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 29, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: I've changed it to use Adam's ideas, so using Mail's procedures. The main reason is that it requires almost no UI,

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-28 Thread Jonas Zimmermann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28.01.2009, at 05:25, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: Although in principle I think it may be a waste of time, I implemented colored rows to see a) what it could look like, and b) if I find it useful in practice. I posted a build on my iDisk [1]

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 28 Jan 2009, at 4:30 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 28, 2009, at 6:54 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jan 28, 2009, at 4:05 AM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: Adam, Thanks a lot! definitely no waste of time! Although I must say I like the Finder/Journler/attached-file-in-BD approach

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-27 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
Although in principle I think it may be a waste of time, I implemented colored rows to see a) what it could look like, and b) if I find it useful in practice. I posted a build on my iDisk [1] in case anyone else is curious as well. UI is basically the same as in Mail.app, storage is 3

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-26 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Jan 26, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: I was thinking of coloring the whole row background with an arbitrary color. Even more compelling because nobody knows what the selection color is. The examples you mention are more exceptions (indeed, Apple often doesn't follow it's own

[Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-25 Thread Jonas Zimmermann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, as my bibliography database grows and grows I thought it might be helpful if I could colour-label references (e.g. to mark important ones), basically like in Finder. How hard would it be to add something like it? (I've played with keywords

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-25 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 26 Jan 2009, at 12:44 AM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: Hi, as my bibliography database grows and grows I thought it might be helpful if I could colour-label references (e.g. to mark important ones), basically like in Finder. How hard would it be to add something like it? (I've played with

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-25 Thread Jonas Zimmermann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 26.01.2009 um 00:25 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: On 26 Jan 2009, at 12:44 AM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote: Hi, as my bibliography database grows and grows I thought it might be helpful if I could colour-label references (e.g. to mark important

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Colour labels like in Finder possible?

2009-01-25 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Jan 26, 2009, at 1:25 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: If you put it in a row, what's the real advantage over using a rating field? Ratings are more limited in meaning. Static groups are what I'd use in BibDesk where I'd use color in another app, so I'm not sure there's a compelling