ted@...11... wrote:
Well, I wasn't think "explanatory paragraph", perhaps I misunderstood your previous e-mails. What I've been working on is tooltips for all the parameters in the autogui, and tooltips for the effects in the status bar. A whole paragraph sounds like a lot of screen real estate... Do you think that the two upgrade above would solve the same problem you're thinking about?
No, I really think it needs an explanatory paragraph for some effects. Function plotter requires a selected rectangle (or did last time I checked). Something short like that could perhaps fit into the status bar. But Envelope (formerly Summer's Night) would likely require a short paragraph to explain. With no explanation there is very little likelyhood that a user will ever figure these out.
Well, changing what is called is a "one-liner" in script.cpp, there is a little table of how the various script types are called. That should be easy, but I'll let you make the change as I have no way to test it.
Someday. Right now the black window really helps to know that something is going on.
As far as a progress bar, yeah, I just haven't figured out a good way to do it.
Worst case scenario, how about a small dialog with a cancel button that reported the name of the effect and says that it is processing?
Aaron Spike