Re: LaunchPad -- Screen Shot (so far)
Antonio Alessi wrote:
>
> 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.
I think i know what you mean here. I like the sense of completeness
present now, the way it's presented on screen.
>
> 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?
Yes that sounds 'charming' he he. Not sure about this right now
though. I sorta like the thing covering other windows so you know
the buttons are all together.
>
> To delete a Tab? destroy( it). I do that without having to restart the prog.
Well, with this new Launcher there are a lot of sequences to maintain:
TabNames, ButtonNames, ID list, etc., etc. If on tab is deleted, all
the sequences (or most of them) have to be squashed (ie take out one
element) to get rid of that tab information. It's not that hard to do,
and i think i've gotten it to work ok now. What was harder was getting
the whole tab view to redraw itself correctly, but it seems to be ok now.
I still have to add 'insert tab here' or something like that. I'll wait
on this too, as there is the 'swap tabs' function which helps do this.
>
> 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"! :)
Yes me too, it's good to hash out ideas in order to get the best ones
out in the open. Thanks for helping me do this.
>
> antonio
Take care,
Al
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