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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nhat,

The colours of the “shadows” are the same as the elements themselves — so they can be configured the normal way.

And yes, the shadow width scales with the zoom factor.  It’s not 100% the same across all zoom sizes as it looks more consistent if it’s bumped up a little a larger zooms.

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 29 Jul 2019, at 12:06, Nhat Khai <nhatkhai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> It would be nice if they are later can be configurable so hope event blinked color people as see them too. 
> I it would me more sensible (but may be hard to implement) that highlight should not got with zooming like the other items. It should go with the physical screen size. So the highlight may become a big dot for all the elements when the zoom out too far - instead of sink with items. Just like the way mouse selection work - It do not work with zoom since 1 mouse pixel can be many items under.
> 
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 2:01 AM Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> OK, I tried a bunch of things out.  None of them were terribly satisfactory.
> 
> Bolding sounded good, but turned out to be even less noticeable than the brightening.
> 
> The yellow "drop-shadow" looked good on unfilled symbols, but was completely unnoticeable on symbols with a background fill (which defaults to yellow).  It also doesn’t scale well, being hard to see when zoomed out.
> 
> I also tried red (cross-probe colour) and magenta (brightening colour) drop-shadows, but they tend to blend with the different item foreground colours giving inconsistent effects.
> 
> The best I could come up with (and it’s not great) is a “drop shadow” made with the item’s hue and a fixed saturation and lightness.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
> 
> 
> > On 25 Jul 2019, at 23:11, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> > 
> > Oh, hey, I like the bold idea.  Did you try it out?  (I can if not….)
> > 
> >> On 25 Jul 2019, at 21:02, Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >> 
> >> On 2019-07-19 19:03, Jeff Young wrote:
> >> 
> >>> I’ve been thinking of using the magenta colour for both net
> >>> highlighting and cross-probing, and then using the bright red we use
> >>> today for cross-probing for selection.  This does mean that selections
> >>> would no longer have differentiated colours within (between
> >>> components, wires, etc.), but I think might work better than the
> >>> not-very-noticeable state we have today.
> >> 
> >> I toyed with this a bit and I'm not a huge fan.  Turns out I actually use the color differences for context when working.
> >> 
> >> What do you think about darkening + bold (say width * 1.2)?
> >> 
> >> -Seth
> > 
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