On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 09:51:06PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: > For other stamps, when mirroring or flipping, an alternative graphic > will be loaded. Think of a picture of a fire truck with "FDNY" written > on the side. You wouldn't want that text to be mirrored, too...
The earth seen from two perspectives? A door with a "Push" sign on one side and a "Pull" sign on the other? ;) > Finally, for some stamps, mirroring and/or flipping wouldn't be an option, > because, generally, it's not appropriate. The numbers and musical symbols > are an example of stamps which couldn't be flipped or mirrored. > (Of course, you can do the old trick of using the Magic tools, but that's > beside the point :^) ) "Mirror writing" is humorous. If you disable flipping for some stamps, please offer an option to globally disable the flip-disabling of those stamps. My reasoning: Generally, disabling flipping for some stamps is a good idea for the very young who are just learning their proper orientation or the dyslexic. However, the ability to flip anything, even numbers and letters, is something that makes tuxpaint more fun for kids who already know very well the correct orientation and find it funny or useful. Just think of backwards numbering on the window of a door as seen from the inside for a "useful" application. > I'm thinking, initially, to allow ALL stamps to be mirrored or flipped. > Then use corresponding ".dat" data files to 'disable' the feature for > certain stamps. (Again, think of the numbers stamps) This would require > the least work. :^) > > For alternative graphics, I'm guessing I'll need to do something similar > to how I allow locale-specific sound effects. Something like: > > stamp.png > stamp_mirror.png > stamp_flip.png > stamp_mirrorflip.png ... > How does this sound? Sure. > \ [Stamps] > / [ ^ ] > \ [ ][ ] > / [ ][ ] > \ [ ][ ] > / [ ][ ] > \ [ v ] <-- move 'scroll down' button up two rows > / [<>][v^] > \ [O.][.O] > > Make sense? Seem reasonable? Yup. Ben -- ,-. nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] \`' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ` [ gpg 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ] [ pgp 7F DA 09 4B BA 2C 0D E0 1B B1 31 ED C6 A9 39 4F ] _______________________________________________ Tuxpaint-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev
