[Bf-funboard] Radio buttons / button colour organisation & colour customization

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

I think you missed my mail about this. In the flood yesterday...
but for the color/type topic I've done a proposal, which is close to  
yours. Which colors we actually choose is less important... will be  
user setting anyway.

> I think the radio buttons (sets of toggle buttons
> where exactly one is always pushed down) should be bunched together  
> with a
> minimal boundary.

Sounds feasible and logical. I can put that on the list.

-Ton-


On Thursday, Oct 16, 2003, at 17:24 Europe/Amsterdam, Luke Wenke wrote:

> Hi,
> I think these things are in the scope for 2.30....
> Firstly, just to repeat, I think the radio buttons (sets of toggle  
> buttons
> where exactly one is always pushed down) should be bunched together  
> with a
> minimal boundary.
> Here:
> http://members.ozemail.com.au/~wenke/blender/consistent-colours.png
> I bunched up the plane/sphere/cube icons, Col/Spe/Mir, RGB/HSV/DYN and  
> (osa)
> 5/8/11/16, 100%/75%/50%/25%.
> BW/RGB/RGBA, DispView/DispWin, and Sky/Premul/Key should also be  
> bunched up,
> probably same with the texture channel buttons. The render window  
> position
> should maybe be included, though it currently doesn't function like a  
> set of
> radio buttons.
> Comments?
> ==================================================================
> Secondly, about the organisation of button colours.
> At the moment, it seems that the orangey buttons are called  
> "BUT_SALMON",
> and the teal buttons are called "BUT_GREEN". i.e. the button colours  
> are
> referred to by their original colour. So if you changed the  
> "BUT_SALMON"
> colour to black, it would still have the same name.
>
> Here's my suggestion for the button colour names and the current  
> values in
> Blender 2.29
> (see a screenshot of Blender 2.29)
> http://www.kino3d.com/images/shot-1.png
>
> Colour Category, Original Setting (in words)
> (TogBut1OnBg or)
> ToggleButtonPrimaryEnableBg - dark teal
> (TogBut1OffBg or)
> ToggleButtonPrimaryEnableText - white
> ToggleButtonPrimaryDisableBg - light teal
> ToggleButtonPrimaryDisableText - black
> ToggleButtonSecondaryEnableBg - dark grey
> ToggleButtonSecondaryEnableText - white
> ToggleButtonSecondaryDisableBg - light grey
> ToggleButtonSecondaryDisableText - black
>
> ActionButtonPrimaryBg - orangey
> ActionButtonPrimaryText - black
> ActionButtonSecondaryBg - light grey
> ActionButtonSecondaryText - black
>
> (special togglebuttons, actionbuttons, sliders, etc)
> SpecialButtonBg = pale purple
> SpecialButtonText = black
>
> (sliders, etc)
> GenericButtonBg = grey
> GenericButtonText = black
>
> ((Number/Textfield) TextBoxPassiveBg or)
> TextBoxInactiveBg - dark grey
> TextBoxInactiveText - white (or black?)
> etc.
>
> ============================================================
> That should give you a basic idea about what I'm talking about. The
> secondary action and toggle button colours aren't really necessary...  
> they
> could be defined in the user's "GenericButtonBg" and  
> "GenericButtonText"
> colours. On the other hand, allowing the user to have independent  
> secondary
> colours for action and toggle buttons allows them to do things like  
> this:
> http://members.ozemail.com.au/~wenke/blender/consistent-colours.png
> Basically all the action buttons are one colour, and all the toggle  
> buttons
> are another colour. (And I got rid of purple - though you wouldn't be  
> able
> to do that since the special control colour would apply to all of the
> affected controls [sliders, action/toggle buttons, etc]). Or the user  
> could
> make the primary and secondary action button background colours  
> similar (but
> not identical), and same with the toggle buttons. It takes a while to  
> get
> used to, but some users might like it.
> Comments are welcome....
>
> - Luke.
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