[ANN] Taming Fills Hi All,
Context: You have a morph with a gradient or bit map fill and you would like to adjust the scale and orientation to your liking.
Problem: The only way to adjust things is one parameter at a time from the fill menu. Furthermore once you have selected to adjust a parameter a handle is created at the cursor (which was doing menu selection just a moment ago.).. And the previous setting of the parameter is lost.
Solution: Have handles for the fill that allow manipulation of all the parameters until the user is satisfied. Then allow the removal of those handles.
Working code for evaluation is available on Bobs superswiki:
http://209.143.91.36/super/730 Taming Fills
and a report has been started on mantis:
http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6594 0006594: [Fix] [Enh] A better way to handle Balloon-Fill adjustments
Feedback appreciated. Send kudos to the lists and technical feedback to mantis.
Yours is service and curiosity, --Jerome Peace.
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El 8/7/07 3:09 PM, "Jerome Peace" peace_the_dreamer@yahoo.com escribió:
[ANN] Taming Fills Hi All,
Context: You have a morph with a gradient or bit map fill and you would like to adjust the scale and orientation to your liking.
Problem: The only way to adjust things is one parameter at a time from the fill menu. Furthermore once you have selected to adjust a parameter a handle is created at the cursor (which was doing menu selection just a moment ago.).. And the previous setting of the parameter is lost.
Solution: Have handles for the fill that allow manipulation of all the parameters until the user is satisfied. Then allow the removal of those handles.
Working code for evaluation is available on Bob¹s superswiki:
http://209.143.91.36/super/730 Taming Fills
and a report has been started on mantis:
http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6594 0006594: [Fix] [Enh] A better way to handle Balloon-Fill adjustments
Feedback appreciated. Send kudo¹s to the lists and technical feedback to mantis.
Yours is service and curiosity, --Jerome Peace.
This is nice ! I want more ! Like selecting colors.
Very good , still Squeak is a fun place, thanks.
The idea of user handles for morphs is intriguing...
Grande Jerome ! (A soccer's fan scream to good players of supported team)
On Tuesday 07 August 2007 11:39 pm, Jerome Peace wrote:
Solution: Have handles for the fill that allow manipulation of all the parameters until the user is satisfied. Then allow the removal of those handles.
Jerome,
It is nice to be able to control the fills directly through handles, but the handles are too many. A simple 'rubber band' with two handles (anchored and movable) is sufficient. Circular gradient will need a ellipse with two orthogonal 'rubber band' lines.
Use a color dropper on a handle to change the color. Drag anchored handle to change origin and moveable handle to scale and rotate. Shift click on the rubber band to dismiss the handle. This would be consistent with operations on mixed curve and border width etc.
Regards .. Subbu
subbukk wrote:
On Tuesday 07 August 2007 11:39 pm, Jerome Peace wrote:
Solution: Have handles for the fill that allow manipulation of all the parameters until the user is satisfied. Then allow the removal of those handles.
Jerome,
It is nice to be able to control the fills directly through handles, but the handles are too many. A simple 'rubber band' with two handles (anchored and movable) is sufficient. Circular gradient will need a ellipse with two orthogonal 'rubber band' lines.
Use a color dropper on a handle to change the color. Drag anchored handle to change origin and moveable handle to scale and rotate. Shift click on the rubber band to dismiss the handle. This would be consistent with operations on mixed curve and border width etc.
Regards .. Subbu
If you turn on preference 'propertySheetFromHandle' you get a nice tool to make many border, color and fill style changes.
Karl
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 7:26 pm, Karl wrote:
If you turn on preference 'propertySheetFromHandle' you get a nice tool to make many border, color and fill style changes.
True. But the full property sheet is an overkill if you just want to change the fill. Direct manipulation is one of Morphic's strong points.
Subbu
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