tuxpaint-devel

[Tuxpaint-devel] Color picker

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

I've added a color picker!

The rightmost button in the color palette now brings up a square with
~50,000+ colors in it.  Click within the square to select the color,
or click 'Back' to abort (and keep the color what it was before).

Let me know what you think. It's in CVS.

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Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Color picker

[Karl O. H. <ka...@hu...>]

Onsdag 25. juli 2007 skreiv Bill Kendrick:

>I've added a color picker!

Great!

>The rightmost button in the color palette now brings up a square with
>~50,000+ colors in it. =C2=A0Click within the square to select the color,
>or click 'Back' to abort (and keep the color what it was before).
>
>Let me know what you think.

I would prefer it to be nonmodal: Click on the button to bring up the the b=
ox=20
(positioned at the bottom right =E2=80=93 adjacent to the button). Then jus=
t select a=20
colour and start painting (or just start painting directly, if you don=E2=
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to change the colour).

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Karl Ove Hufthammer

Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Color picker

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 07:09:22PM +0200, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
> I would prefer it to be nonmodal: Click on the button to bring up
> the the box (positioned at the bottom right ??? adjacent to the
> button). Then just select a colour and start painting (or just start
> painting directly, if you don???t want to change the colour).

One problem is that it's currently 256x256 pixels. :^/

(The nice thing is, though, no R/G/B or H/S/V knobs/sliders/widgets.)

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Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Color picker

[Karl O. H. <ka...@hu...>]

Onsdag 1. august 2007 skreiv Bill Kendrick:
>> I would prefer it to be nonmodal: Click on the button to bring up
>> the the box (positioned at the bottom right ??? adjacent to the
>> button). Then just select a colour and start painting (or just start
>> painting directly, if you don???t want to change the colour).
>
>One problem is that it's currently 256x256 pixels. :^/

Why is that a big problem?

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Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Color picker

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 08:18:48PM +0200, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
> Onsdag 1. august 2007 skreiv Bill Kendrick:
> >> I would prefer it to be nonmodal: Click on the button to bring up
> >> the the box (positioned at the bottom right ??? adjacent to the
> >> button). Then just select a colour and start painting (or just start
> >> painting directly, if you don???t want to change the colour).
> >
> >One problem is that it's currently 256x256 pixels. :^/
> 
> Why is that a big problem?

Well, it would overlap the canvas, I think.  So if you wanted to 'just start
painting directly' and it happened to be in that corner, you're out of luck.

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Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Color picker

[Karl O. H. <ka...@hu...>]

=46redag 3. august 2007 skreiv Bill Kendrick:
>> >> I would prefer it to be nonmodal: Click on the button to bring up
>> >> the the box (positioned at the bottom right ??? adjacent to the
>> >> button). Then just select a colour and start painting (or just start
>> >> painting directly, if you don???t want to change the colour).
>> >
>> >One problem is that it's currently 256x256 pixels. :^/
>>
>> Why is that a big problem?
>
>Well, it would overlap the canvas, I think. =A0So if you wanted to 'just s=
tart
>painting directly' and it happened to be in that corner, you're out of luc=
k.

Just make it disappear when you move the mouse pointer outside the box.=20
There's really no need for the button that's there.

And it's no need for it to take so long for the box to appear. That's just=
=20
annoying.

=2D-=20
Karl Ove Hufthammer

Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Color picker

[Ben A. <sy...@sa...>]

On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:35:51 +0200
Karl Ove Hufthammer <ka...@hu...> wrote:
> And it's no need for it to take so long for the box to appear. That's just 
> annoying.

Do you mean the animation?  If your system is slow enough for this to be
annoying, you probably find the quit dialog just as annoying (although
the quit dialog is smaller and used less often, so maybe not so much.)
Perhaps we need a --noanimate switch for those who don't like this
behaviour that turns it off for both.  My five kids and I have used the
new color picker extensively now and I haven't had a single complaint.

Ben
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Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Color picker

[Ben A. <sy...@sa...>]

On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:18:05 -0300
Ben Armstrong <sy...@sa...> wrote:

> Perhaps we need a --noanimate switch for those who don't like this
> behaviour that turns it off for both.

And/or --animatespeed=#?

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Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Color picker

[Karl O. H. <ka...@hu...>]

=46redag 3. august 2007 skreiv Ben Armstrong:
>> And it's no need for it to take so long for the box to appear. That's ju=
st
>> annoying.
>
>Do you mean the animation? =A0If your system is slow enough for this to be
>annoying, you probably find the quit dialog just as annoying (although
>the quit dialog is smaller and used less often, so maybe not so much.)

My sytem is perhaps a bit old, but not very slow, and I guess Tux Paint is=
=20
used on much slower systems. The quit dialogue is not annoying at all.

The problem with the colour dialogue is that it takes a second to appear, a=
nd=20
when you move back and forth between drawing with one of the default colour=
s=20
and your custom colour, the slow appearance of the dialogue is very annoyin=
g.=20
Try it!

=2D-=20
Karl Ove Hufthammer

Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Color picker

[Karl O. H. <ka...@hu...>]

Onsdag 25. juli 2007 skreiv Bill Kendrick:
>I've added a color picker!
>
>Let me know what you think. It's in CVS.

One more suggesting. There's plenty of place below the big 'current colour' 
box in the dialogue. Why not show the last n (perhaps 12) used colours there?

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