[Bf-taskforce25] Widget Colouring Suggestion

[Nathan Vegdahl]

This looks great.  +1

  I wonder, though, what is the difference between a driver and an
expression?  In Blender I think they are the same thing.

(I have this strange feeling I'm going to look like a fool after
sending this, especially since I'm supposed to know this rigging
stuff. :-P)

--Nathan V

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:26 AM, William Reynish <william at reynish.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Talked to Ton and a few others on IRC the other day, and we discussed
> ways to avoid color-coding, along these lines:
>
> http://www.reynish.com/files/blender25/widgetstates_2.png
>
> These icons are immediately clear to the user, and would get rid of
> the disco-flashing of colored buttons that 2.5 currently has when
> animating button values.
>
> The implication of using icons in this manner to communicate the state
> of buttons, however, is that is really only makes sense in strict
> lists of one or two collumns - otherwise the dependancy between the
> icon, widget and label start to become unclear.
>
> But maybe it's not so bad, we can just say layouts just are this
> simple, and that's perhaps a good thing too.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -William
>
>
>
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