On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 02:14:58PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: > What kind of color picker would be good for kids, too? > Needs to be simple, but also easily get to all 16.7m colors ;)
Inspired by that pygame coloring book, how about just toggling the usual fixed color buttons into a big bar which is a rectangular projection of the usual color wheel? So if you pick the paintbrush, and then click on a point in this bar with the paintbrush, you select paint in that color. Likewise for tinting stamps if you have selected the stamp tool. Whatever color picker is used, the child might want to select the same color more than once, and it's hard with most pickers to select exactly the same color twice (unless you memorize numbers and show them as feedback, or allow direct entry of the numbers, which is clearly not desirable here). So we ought to allow colors to be picked from an existing drawing too. But this is a bit problematic, since this implies you need a separate picker tool and paintbrush tool. Then the child has to switch between them: select the picker, pick a color, select a paintbrush, paint. This is slightly harder to remember than: select a paintbrush, pick a color, paint. I don't know of an easy solution to this dilemma. 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
