On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:57:32 -0800, Jon Phillips <jon@...560...> wrote:
Hello everyone, I thought I would pull a Bulia and drop some features. When doing web design and pre-layout, I found it annoying that I could'nt get the hex value of colors, so I added a "Copy as Hex" button when using the eye dropper to get a color value.
Actually you could always do this just by pressing Ctrl+C, which will copy the color under cursor. What would your button copy? The color you have last selected? So you must click the color first (making sure nothing is selected, to avoid repainting), then go to the toolbar and click the copy button. Two clicks instead of one shortcut.
- Added entry boxes for hex values of last selected color and opacity.
Why show them as text and make them editable? They change nothing, so the editability is confusing. Better make a stack of recently clicked colors, shown as swatches.
- Added "Copy as RGBA" button that copies last selected color as RGBA
value to the clipboard
- Added "Copy as HEX" button that copies the last selected color as a
HEX value (useful for web work where hex values are needed)
This is very confusing. They are _both_ hex. The only difference is that the first copies f3626200 while the second f36262 without alpha. Do we really need them both? If so can you suggest better names?
- Added toggle switch option to select current color as visible on
screen without alpha. When not toggled, then the current color and opacity as represented with alpha becomes the stored desktop value.
- Removed the aforementioend option from the application preferences
menu, as it is now available via the dropper auxiliary toolbar.
That's very confusing too. Previously there were two options, both explained clearly. You replaced them with a single toggle button whose tooltip explains only ONE option. What's the opposite of "pick visible color"? "Pick invisible color"? :)
Please restore this as a two-way switch (two radio buttons or toggle buttons) with _both_ options explained.
3.) I'm sure there are some things I missed since I did this quickly. Please email/fix/post bugs about...
It's good for the start, just don't leave it in the unfinished state. Please address the above issues before adding more functionality.