OpenEuphoria

Re: LaunchPad -- Screen Shot (so far)

• Posted by Antonio Alessi <a.admin at myway.it> Apr 23, 2006
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Al Getz wrote:
> 
> Hello again,
> 
> 
> > Another idea - in my free minutes :*) - was that of making everything
> > disappear but the buttons, or the buttons with let's say the 3-4 most 
> > used tabs, and enlarge all visible again on mouse over something..
> > (you will probably like this). Next, strive to reduce the buttons
> > to the half size; colors, a very good idea, they will help.
> 
> Im not sure what you mean here about the disappearing buttons, but
> i like the idea of 'half size' buttons, where the mouse over the
> left half window enlarges the left buttons; over the right half 
> enlarges the right set of buttons.
> I'll probably wait on fancy stuff like this however, as im still working
> on the essentials.  I want to delete a tab without restarting the app,
> and stuff like that.
> All in all, it's comming along nicely thanks to some of your ideas.
> 
> 
> Thanks again,
> Al
> 

Again a possible Language problem: 
"everything disappear but the buttons" is an expression that remembered 
to me a song title: "I can't give you anything but love", where 
"anything but love" should hold the affirmative sense of " only love", 
right?
However, at first I thought to hide all accessories, menus, tabs, boxes,
leaving just the buttons visible, and let the tabs, menu and checkboxes 
be visible again on touch; I thought also to the alternate buttons visibility
like you described, although I did not directly mention it;
the problem with this trick of things tha appear/disappear like the popups,
is that moving the mouse away for an instant lets them close, and this 
takes the operator nervous, improperly requiring to deserve more attention 
to lesser things.

but now comes "the best": after the essentials, of course, what about 
making the whole window background completely transparent, 
leaving just the buttons (and the frame border(?)) in view? 
isn't it charming, particularly for a LaunchPad? is that possible?

To delete a Tab? destroy( it). I do that without having to restart the prog.

I'm quite happy to play and replay with all these ideas; thank you.
Another song I like by Gershwins is "Nice work if you can get it"! :)

antonio