On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Gary C Martin <g...@garycmartin.com> wrote: > Hi Walter/Simon, > > On 7 Dec 2009, at 10:37, Simon Schampijer wrote: > >> On 12/06/2009 11:05 PM, Walter Bender wrote: >>> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Simon Schampijer<si...@schampijer.de> >>> wrote: >>>> A few questions: >>>> - in the Feature page you mention the 'random selector', is this option >>>> still available in the latest design? >>> >>> This is still in the new design in that I didn't remove it from the >>> code. (If you click on the central XO icon, you get a random color as >>> before.) It is a decision I leave to the design team. >> >> Ok. Maybe the design team want to comment if they think that the random >> functionality is a good one to have. > > Sorry, not quite following the 'random functionality' comment. Just to check, > my understanding that 'forwards' and 'backwards' are hooked up to change a > seed value used for a random calculation of the fill/stroke colour choices > (an almost infinitely large carousel of random choices, left or right). Where > the buttons act something like the below image to maintain the current > behaviour where clicking the large Xo icon still progresses forward: > > > > > Regards, > --Gary >
Just to bring clarity to what I have implemented so far: (1) clicking on the left xo icon or the < icon causes the color pair to cycle to the "previous" color pair in the list of colors found in xocolor.py (2) clicking on the right xo icon or the > icon causes the color pair to cycle to the "next" color pair in the list of colors found in xocolor.py (3) clicking on the large xo icon causes a random color pair to be selected from the list in xocolor.py and resets the index used in #1 and #2. (Essentially the same as the present behavior). There is also a "hidden" button (a temporary kludge) to undo (useful for undoing the random selection). The intention is to associate a key (Ctrl-z) to the undo function. Of course, you can still back out of the whole thing by canceling the changes in the manner currently supported: hitting x instead of ✓ on the panel. Comments on the above: (a) The order of the colors in xocolor.py is reason to cycle through. If you get a close approximation from random, you can fine-tune your selection by searching through adjacent colors. (b) I don't know how to get icons that can both be recolored and use accelerator keys, hence the kludge above. For accessibility purposes, it would be nice to add short-cuts to all the buttons in the control panel. (c) Gary, I tried the stacked icons vs running them in a row. The stacked icons didn't do it for me (or Eben, as I recall). The current configuration is xo < XO > xo. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
