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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/15/2015 4:48 PM, Jon Neal wrote:
> It looks nicer in some ways, but I don't think I completely like it.
> 
> Two comments I have:
> 1. A little bit of whitespace in between each color block would make it
> look even nicer I think.

I don't like the square run on color buttons either.  I would like to
see something to distinguish one color button from another.  I do
however like the standard font instead of the really small font that is
bad for us old guys with less than perfect vision.

> 2. From this picture it is way, way less obvious that you can click on
> the color blocks to change their color. I am not a fan of that at all.
> Maybe there is some indication that could be added on mouseover? A light
> color change? Not sure
> 
> Jon
> 
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 4:07 PM Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:swel024@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     I am doing some modifications to the layer widget and was wanting
>     some comments. Part of this is making it so that if you LEFT click
>     on the colour button you get the colour selection dialog. Currently
>     i believe this is very broken as you should not have a wxButton that
>     does not behave as expected with a left click. 
> 
>     There is plenty of real-estate on the row to click to make the row
>     the current layer
> 
>     http://postimg.org/image/az7os23x9/
> 
>     In that screenshot the left is the current layer_widget screenshot
>     and on the right is my currently modified one. This is currently
>     broken on other operating systems due to being fixed height bitmap
>     buttons but that is the next thing i will be working on as it will
>     require some changes to how things are done.
> 
>     Currently the code is set so that if the vertical resolution of the
>     display is <= 900px then the text has a transformer done
>     pointSize*8/10 as can be seen in the left hand version of the
>     widget, however due to the icons in the right hand toolbar it seems
>     unnecessary to bother with that when the window has to be fairly
>     tall due to the icons anyway and the layer widget will be in a
>     scrolled window
> 
>     If anyone has any comments/critiques about how it looks/order please
>     let me know, I am also considering making the rendering window look
>     the aka the same spacing of the items as even though the icon is not
>     in the rendering tab it still looks cleaner if similar components
>     don't move horizontally between tabs in a notebook
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