Hi Nhat, The colours of the “shadows” are the same as the elements themselves — so they can be configured the normal way.
And yes, the shadow width scales with the zoom factor. It’s not 100% the same across all zoom sizes as it looks more consistent if it’s bumped up a little a larger zooms. Cheers, Jeff. > On 29 Jul 2019, at 12:06, Nhat Khai <[email protected]> wrote: > > It would be nice if they are later can be configurable so hope event blinked > color people as see them too. > I it would me more sensible (but may be hard to implement) that highlight > should not got with zooming like the other items. It should go with the > physical screen size. So the highlight may become a big dot for all the > elements when the zoom out too far - instead of sink with items. Just like > the way mouse selection work - It do not work with zoom since 1 mouse pixel > can be many items under. > > On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 2:01 AM Jeff Young <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > OK, I tried a bunch of things out. None of them were terribly satisfactory. > > Bolding sounded good, but turned out to be even less noticeable than the > brightening. > > The yellow "drop-shadow" looked good on unfilled symbols, but was completely > unnoticeable on symbols with a background fill (which defaults to yellow). > It also doesn’t scale well, being hard to see when zoomed out. > > I also tried red (cross-probe colour) and magenta (brightening colour) > drop-shadows, but they tend to blend with the different item foreground > colours giving inconsistent effects. > > The best I could come up with (and it’s not great) is a “drop shadow” made > with the item’s hue and a fixed saturation and lightness. > > Cheers, > Jeff. > > > > On 25 Jul 2019, at 23:11, Jeff Young <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Oh, hey, I like the bold idea. Did you try it out? (I can if not….) > > > >> On 25 Jul 2019, at 21:02, Seth Hillbrand <[email protected] > >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> > >> On 2019-07-19 19:03, Jeff Young wrote: > >> > >>> I’ve been thinking of using the magenta colour for both net > >>> highlighting and cross-probing, and then using the bright red we use > >>> today for cross-probing for selection. This does mean that selections > >>> would no longer have differentiated colours within (between > >>> components, wires, etc.), but I think might work better than the > >>> not-very-noticeable state we have today. > >> > >> I toyed with this a bit and I'm not a huge fan. Turns out I actually use > >> the color differences for context when working. > >> > >> What do you think about darkening + bold (say width * 1.2)? > >> > >> -Seth > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > Post to : [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > > -- > Nhat Khai Nguyen
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