-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hmm... first thing : look at what has already been done!
take a look inside the gimp at the 4 ways of choosing a color! what do you think of - - the triangle one? it's quite fun to use, as it's a bit complicated... - - the "aquarelle" (i dunno the original english word) which behaves like paint blending? it could learn to kids how to "make" colors, so the teachers may like it? what do you think? i imagine you may not be able to reuse gtk widgets that easily in tuxpaint... ? cheers j On Thursday 15 January 2004 00:45, Mark K. Kim wrote: > How about... > > a picture of a palette. kind of like this: > > http://www.janedoe.com/images/palette.gif > > additionally, there is a pool of white paint in the middle. > if you select the colors on the side, the color of the white > paint in the middle changes slightly towards that color. > you can mix the different colors to get the color you want. > > We'd want at least cyan, yellow, magenta, black, and white > on the palette. Secondary colors as well as brown would be > good to have also, among others. > > It's a CYMK model, which is what kids are more familiar with from the art > class. They should also be familiar with paint mix concept so seeing a > palette should make it easier for them to know what to do. Some sort of > instruction and/or animation would be necessary to help them use it > properly (of course.) > > -Mark > > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Bill Kendrick wrote: > > > > > Jeremy also suggested a color picker. I'm thinking of a rainbow colored > > button at the far right. When the user clicks it, a color picker dialog > > would appear. > > > > Of course, I'd allow disabling of this feature with some "--no..." option. > > > > Comments? > > > > What kind of color picker would be good for kids, too? > > Needs to be simple, but also easily get to all 16.7m colors ;) > > > > -bill! > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got kids? Get Tux Paint! > > http://newbreedsoftware.com/bill/ http://newbreedsoftware.com/ tuxpaint/ > > -- > Mark K. Kim > AIM: markus kimius > Homepage: http://www.cbreak.org/ > Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/vindaci > Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp?id=13046 > PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE > PGP key available on the homepage > _______________________________________________ > Tuxpaint-dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev > - -- ** Jeremie ZIMMERMANN * * * http://tofz.org ** ** get my GNUPG/PGP public key at http://tofz.org/pubkey.asc ** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFABo+31eTOPM/5+wsRAoZbAKCeTLVOSNf3jBQshCSflgWe7+QRywCePVia AhL9WuwUBg8jwJWECGO1iPY= =MuCl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Tuxpaint-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev
