[Bf-animsys] F-Curve Colouring - Comments

[bassam]

as a (may be sacrilegious ? ) suggestion, might I say there is another
option:

just do something minimal and sane for now, and don't stress about
getting it perfect. organizing / optimising the ui for fcurves could be
it's own project, might require some design of widgets/display, and
could even be a gsoc in it's own right in the next summer.
perhaps something like:

invert color of background, then mix with a low percentage with
autogenerated random color-> color of curve.

this way the curves should be slightly different from each other, and at
least they will stick out from the background.



On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 13:04 +1200, Joshua Leung wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:45 AM, bassam <bkurdali at freefactory.org>
> wrote:
>         what the colors do is help separate the curves out from each
>         other, some
>         more contrast against the bg would be good (maybe this has to
>         use the
>         theme somehow), other comments:
>         -in a busy line-up, it is sometimes difficult to tell which
>         handle goes
>         to which curve.
>         -in a busy line-up, it is often hard to tell which cuve goes
>         with which
>         label on the left.
> As I thought...
>  
>         some suggestions that might help:
>         
>         bring back edit mode for curves, *or* bring back some of it's
>         benefits,
>         by adding onto the lock/hide options more , such as an ability
>         to grey
>         out all other channels/highlight one channel, and the ability
>         to hide
>         handles on other channels then the one being edited, some more
>         detailed
>         ideas follow:
>         
>         -as I mentioned earlier, highlighting when you click on a
>         channel label,
>         the curve it is representing. this works with shift selecting,
>         selecting
>         all, etc.
>         
>         -inverse of this is ghosting all curves except the selected
>         ones.
>         
>         -or, the ability to show only the handles of the selected
>         labels (works
>         with shift/select all/select inverse, etc)
> An idea I've thought of pursuing was an option to link
> selection-status with visibility of curves...
> 
> Unlikely to be even attempted...  -----v
> 
>         
>         -color coding the handles to match the curves (I suspect this
>         one will
>         end in tears )
>         
>         -some kind of smart filtering widget, like facetzoom, that
>         allows fast
>         viewing, filtering and selection of the curves,
>         http://advancingusability.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/facetzoom-first-open-source-release/
>         
>         (ps, I know this last thing is in the 'extemely unlikely to
>         happen'
>         category, just wanted to provide an example )
>         
>         cheers
>         Bassam
>