Re: [UI] ColorPicker - entering hex color code

2012-07-23 Thread Armin Le Grand
Hi Kevin, Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.com wrote: KG01 - See comments inline On Jul 20, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Armin Le Grand armin.le.gr...@me.com wrote: [..] It depends on what we mean by expected. I suspect the typical user does not touch hexadecimal. Programmers who are not web

Re: [UI] ColorPicker - entering hex color code

2012-07-20 Thread Armin Le Grand
[..] It depends on what we mean by expected. I suspect the typical user does not touch hexadecimal. Programmers who are not web developers probably expect this to be treated like a number, i.e., they are entering the three least significant digits and it will be padded with zeros to the

Re: [UI] ColorPicker - entering hex color code

2012-07-20 Thread Kevin Grignon
KG01 - See comments inline On Jul 20, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Armin Le Grand armin.le.gr...@me.com wrote: [..] It depends on what we mean by expected. I suspect the typical user does not touch hexadecimal. Programmers who are not web developers probably expect this to be treated like a number,

[UI] ColorPicker - entering hex color code

2012-07-19 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
Hi there, entering a color in the new color, with its hex code, has a rather strange result. Try - menu Tools -Options... - on the Options dialog, select the on the tree OpenOffice.org - Colors - select a color and press the Edit... button (side comment: the color picker should be available

Re: [UI] ColorPicker - entering hex color code

2012-07-19 Thread Andre Fischer
On 19.07.2012 16:43, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: Hi there, entering a color in the new color, with its hex code, has a rather strange result. Try - menu Tools -Options... - on the Options dialog, select the on the tree OpenOffice.org - Colors - select a color and press the Edit... button

Re: [UI] ColorPicker - entering hex color code

2012-07-19 Thread Kevin Grignon
KG01 - See comments inline. On Jul 19, 2012, at 11:33 PM, Andre Fischer a...@a-w-f.de wrote: On 19.07.2012 16:43, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: Hi there, entering a color in the new color, with its hex code, has a rather strange result. Try - menu Tools -Options... - on the Options

Re: [UI] ColorPicker - entering hex color code

2012-07-19 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
Hi Andre, * On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 05:33:35PM +0200, Andre Fischer wrote: On 19.07.2012 16:43, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: Hi there, entering a color in the new color, with its hex code, has a rather strange result. Try - menu Tools -Options... - on the Options dialog, select the on

Re: [UI] ColorPicker - entering hex color code

2012-07-19 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:17:37AM +0800, Kevin Grignon wrote: KG01 - These examples, along with the behavior expectations may make sense to a developer, however in 15 yrs of digital design, I've never assumed a tool would resolve my hex input. I suspect we all agree that the colour picker

Re: [UI] ColorPicker - entering hex color code

2012-07-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: If I enter AA, I would expect it to be #AA, that is, zeros added at the left. AA - AA - RBG 0,0,170 but the color picker shows RGB 170,170,170 ... Which should be the expected behaviour? What I would expect is: ABC - AABBCC This is the (unnatural for

Re: [UI] ColorPicker - entering hex color code

2012-07-19 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
Hi Andrea, On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 06:36:14PM +0200, Andrea Pescetti wrote: What I would expect is: ABC - AABBCC This is the (unnatural for programmers, but popular) CSS shorthand hexadecimal notation used in web pages. And with fewer than three digits, convert to grayscale: AB -

Re: [UI] ColorPicker - entering hex color code

2012-07-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile arie...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:17:37AM +0800, Kevin Grignon wrote: KG01 - These examples, along with the behavior expectations may make sense to a developer, however in 15 yrs of digital design, I've never assumed a

Re: [UI] ColorPicker - entering hex color code

2012-07-19 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Ariel, Ariel Constenla-Haile schrieb: Hi there, entering a color in the new color, with its hex code, has a rather strange result. Try - menu Tools -Options... - on the Options dialog, select the on the tree OpenOffice.org - Colors - select a color and press the Edit... button (side