[Bf-taskforce25] Widget Colouring Suggestion

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

This is of course a temporary situation. We're experimenting with it. :)

The basic idea remains that widget coloring will be derived from a set 
of theme colors you've defined yourself, visualizing widget 
functionality or widget types, and matching the overal looks you want.

We will also check smaller and more subtle ways to show animated 
variables. We could make the layout engine add space for a small 
icon/button, allowing standard input methods to edit it, and visualize 
whether the variable has a function curve, is being driven, or 
controlled by expression, and allowing a way to make a function curve 
editor to show the curve/driver.

One thing is quite cool of the current flashy coloring though; it's 
totally clear and obvious for debugging purposes. Might be worth 
putting a theme option in Blender that does it, so you can optionally 
switch to it on a simple command, and back. :)

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute BV  Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands

On 4 Apr, 2009, at 18:23, Wahooney wrote:

> I've just built the latest SVN of 2.5 and I personally think that 
> having the whole control change colour is a bit garish and perhaps 
> distracting.
>
>  A better idea might be to change the outline of the widget to it's 
> corresponding colour, and perhaps making that outline wider too, this 
> will still make it easy for people that want to see what the 
> key/animation/driver/whatever status of that widget is at a glance 
> while not being distracting in your peripheral vision when you need 
> your attention to be elsewhere in the screen.
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