On Dec 5, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Phil Stone wrote:
Martin Peach wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Color really makes things stand out, especially in a black and white patch. So my question is, what would this color fade be
communicating? A fade would stand out even more than a solid color, IMHO. What
is that fade communicating and is it more important that other elements,
like the object box, the inlets/outlets, the text in the boxes, etc.I guess just a quick way to tell which end is which. For instance the originating end could be redder and the terminating end could be
bluer (and outlets would be red and inlets blue). Or colour saturation could
decline along the cord. It may be more useful if a mouseover made the colours appear, otherwise everything stays black.Martin
I don't know what made me think of this from reading your post,
Martin, but it suddenly occurred to me that a good use for color would be red (or orange, or yellow... ) for "hot" inputs to objects. I'm not
sure if it could be practically implemented without modifying the object's source, though. While for 99% of objects, it would be the left inlet, in the exceptional cases like [timer], the visual reminder would be particularly valuable.
That is a nice idea, it would be good to have on the GUI Ideas wiki
page:
http://puredata.info/dev/GuiIdeas
I've been playing with a color a bit in Pd-extended recently, I think
a little bit of color used judiciously can definitely make things
more readable. Here are two examples of where I think it helps
(check the inlets/outlets and the error box):
The audio inlets are colored and solid, the message inlets are black/ white box.
.hc
Phil Stone pkstonemusic.com
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