On May 15, 2014, at 9:12 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote:
> Devin Asay wrote: >> Thanks for the responses folks. Keep them coming, and I'll post a summary. > > It may be helpful if you'd post your summary to the IDE Contributors Forum: > <http://forums.runrev.com/viewforum.php?f=67> > > >> Here's another one of mine: >> >> Names of blendLevel inks: Whaaa? What do those things even mean? > > Most of those names come from the bit-wise operations they use, or some > similar historic origin. > > While it might be nice to try to craft English-like names for them, that's a > daunting task - "XOR" is "XOR" in every language, and geeky as it is I can't > think of any other way to describe it that isn't nearly a sentence long. :) Yes, I agree that sometimes concepts are too complex to describe in a short, neat label. But in the interface, perhaps the menu could show the effect of the ink visually, or maybe there could be a help button that would pop up a list explaining the inks in simple language. Devin Devin Asay Office of Digital Humanities Brigham Young University _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
