Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Live dragging indicator

[Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil,

> The two glyphs are "solid coloured shape with pointer over" and "hollow
> monochrome shape with pointer over". Pretty clear, apart from their small
> size. Feel free to create more meaningful glyphs for the two states if
> you can.

Aaahh, I thought it was a greyed out version. I am quite sure I can
do no better as my skills in icon design are non-existent! It's just
most Camelot buttons display what they do (solid drag) /all/ the time,
and light up and press in when they activated (if you see what I mean),
like, for example, the aspect lock on the selector tool.

> > Given that doing a straightforward bitmap button is rather a lot less
> > work,
> > I propose doing it that way, then (if we ever want to show live drag
> > is dynamically off due CPU load) then during the drag we grey it, and
> > ungrey it at the end. Any objections?
>
> Fine, so long as it doesn't look too odd alongside the other "buttons"
> and indicators at that end of the status line.

There is only one on Xtreme, which is the magnetic snap indicator, I
think. I don't think the "rendering" animation or the memory usage pane
are enabled at all (though I was going to make them enabled by use
of a preference rather than hard coded #ifdef stuff).

> BTW: What happened to the other bloke who was working on the status line?

No idea, but we need a status line. Getting it to display text took me
a couple of hours whilst looking after my daughter so I don't think too
much of anyone's time has been wasted.

Alex