[sw-l] Please test new SignMaker with Drag and Drop

Wed Sep 22 23:36:41 UTC 2004

Hi List,

I have made a few enhancements to Sign Maker.

You can now delete, flip, and rotate symbols in the sign box.

When using flip and rotate, it is possible your symbol may seem to
disappear.  If that happens, your symbol is not gone, it is just trying to
access a symbol that does not exist.  An examples would be to flip a face.
The face disappears.  Press flip again, and the face reappears.  Faces do
not have flips.  I am not sure if I can fix this without increasing the
download by over a megabyte.

I may also include a button to cycle through variations.  And another button
to cycle through flips.  Thoughts or comments appreciated.

Thanks for testing,
-Stephen

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
[mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu]On Behalf Of Bill Reese
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 5:49 AM
To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
Subject: Re: [sw-l] Please test new SignMaker with Drag and Drop

Stephen,

That is fun!  I had a blast dragging things around when testing.  A few
observations/comments:

1. Sometimes I dragged a symbol to the box and then I decided I didn't
want it.  I had to clear everything and start over rather than just drag
it to a "trash".

2. The composition box and the vertical separation line on the page
overlapped.  I'm using a 19" monitor and Netscape 7.1.

3. I found myself wishing I could use keys on my keyboard to rotate symbols.

4. Lining up two faces to make a composite face needed a bit of skill.
I wanted to use the arrow keys on the keyboard to fine-tune the alignment.

5. Some of the symbols didn't have a transparent background.  I noticed
this with the bars in the lower right of the main menu.

6. Sometimes the UP menu choice didn't step me all the way back to the
main menu.

7.  I can drag symbols in a menu to other parts of the menu and they
would stay there instead of snapping back.  This is more noticeable on
sub-menus with lots of blank space.  This isn't a problem as the menus
always reset when going back to them.

8.  When scrolled down to the bottom of a long menu and picking a
symbol, the sub-menu that follows would be off the screen and I would
need to scroll up.  A return to the top of the page would be useful here.

Bill

Stephen Slevinski wrote:

>Hi List,
>
>You can test the new SignMaker at:
>http://www.oculog.net/puddle/create.php
>
>-Stephen
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>[mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu]On Behalf Of Stephen
>Slevinski
>Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 12:08 AM
>To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>Subject: [sw-l] Please test new SignMaker with Drag and Drop
>
>
>Hi list,
>
>I have a new version of SignMaker ready for Sign Puddle.  This version uses
>drag and drop.  I have tested it on Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefow.
>It works fine.  Not sure if it will work for mac though :(  I'm still
>investigating and I don't have access to a mac...
>
>If all goes well, I will add it to SignBank in a day or two.
>
>When you open the screen, you will see a floating Sign Box, a control
table,
>and a symbol palette.
>
>You have two options with the symbol palette.  You can drag symbols over to
>the sign box.  Or you can click on a symbol to view more symbols
underneath.
>The symbol palette has three levels.  The top level has the categories and
>groups.  The next level has symbols and variations.  The final level has
>fills and rotations.
>
>You can drag any symbol from any level over to the sign box.
>
>With the control table you can clear the sign box, return the symbol
palette
>to the top level, or add the sign to the dictionary.
>
>After the symbols have been added to the sign box, you can use drag and
drop
>to finish the sign.
>
>I still need to add SignWriter control keys like flip and rotate for
symbols
>in the sign box.  I also need to add the ability to delete individual
>symbols from the sign box.
>
>Give it a try and let me know.
>
>Thanks,
>-Stephen
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