On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 22:45, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On the other hand, now that I look at it again, won't kids miss when > pressing the black or grey color chooser buttons, and accidentally hit > print or quit instead?
I think that's more of a problem when painting near the edge of the canvas. In any case, I have a solution for this: have the edges of the buttons ignore mouse clicks. Two to four pixels should do. > Most of your layouts have this problem, except > for number two (four small square buttons in a row at bottom right) and > number four (four small square buttons in two rows at bottom right). Of > these two, I think I'd choose number two, by virtue of having larger > color chooser buttons, I think that one is fairly nice looking (almost the best, but not quite) and easy to code. It also will look good when the screen is larger -- the gap below is not half as ugly as the one that would form when a lovely layout with perfect-fitting 2x2 controls is made taller. For widths of 912 and up, the buttons follow the color buttons in shape and size. For widths of 912 and below, the buttons are square. At 1728, they can go back to being square (half a color button at that size) again. > although I worry that in some languages, the loss > of extra text area space may be a problem. The button face font can be used. (either it is readable, or it isn't -- either way, it's in use right now) > (Oh, I see number three also > doesn't have that problem, but I really really don't like the font style > & size button placement in that one.) How about if those buttons were on the other side, with a similar arrangement, instead of wrapped around Tux? _______________________________________________ Tuxpaint-dev mailing list [email protected] http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev
