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ladybug-tools / spider-gbxml-tools

Scripts to help you view and manage gbXML files
https://www.ladybug.tools/spider-gbxml-tools/
MIT License
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Colorless icons #52

Closed EK-CEL closed 4 years ago

EK-CEL commented 5 years ago

On your screenshots I see the nice icons: image

Unfortunately they don't appear on my computer. I tried several computers in our company. They all have the same picture: image

It is not a big problem. I can work with colorless icons. But it would be nice if you can fix the missing icons for this icon set.

michaldengusiak commented 5 years ago

@EK-CEL I had this before on my old laptop this was due to the graphic card. I have now a different one is solved. @theo-armour Any suggestions if there is some workaround

EK-CEL commented 5 years ago

Seems the symbols are in the page source code: image

michaldengusiak commented 5 years ago

@EK-CEL not on ours image

EK-CEL commented 5 years ago

How can it be?

EK-CEL commented 5 years ago

Do you use Apple device?

michaldengusiak commented 5 years ago

No, I use Windows 10, Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8850H CPU @ 2.60GHz, 2592 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s) NVIDIA Quadro P2000 Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630

@theo-armour will explain this better this is due to Intel graphic card

EK-CEL commented 5 years ago

In our office we use Windows 7 systems. I believe it causes the problem as different systems use different icons. image

I think icons (actually unicode character table) are installed on the computer. So Windows 7 has a different file. We need using unicode characters which work for Windows 7 as well.

EK-CEL commented 5 years ago

I found the following symbols: ☲ - for Surface types 💣 - for Exploded views

My icons look like this: image

What if we would use them?

EK-CEL commented 5 years ago

One icon on the top toolbar is also not shown on my computer: image

Can we use the symbol 🔃 ?

EK-CEL commented 5 years ago

For the button "Show entire campus & display attributes" (for top and bottom toolbars) this symbol is used: image It rather suggests that we can search for something.

My proposition is to use just the "Home" button, which properly describes the action. The 🏠 symbol is visible on my computer.

EK-CEL commented 5 years ago

Currently the "door" symbol 🚪 is used for button "Show openings". It rather suggests the "Exit" action. What if we use the ⊞ symbol for the button?

theo-armour commented 4 years ago

@EK-CEL

Do you have an IT group that sets up your systems? If so, they may have limited your setup somehow?

The default icons in v0.17 show up on my W10 machine with latest Chrome, Edge and FF. Also on my Android phone and Chromebook. They are based on UTF-8. I find the icons using tools like these: https://unicode-table.com/en/sets/top-emoji/

EK-CEL commented 4 years ago

@theo-armour I told our IT department about the problem. Apparently nice icons appear on W10 machines, but not on W7 ones. We spent an hour trying to install a correct Arial TTF font version on W7 machine. The latest Arial font version is 7, but W7 takes only version 5. We couldn't find a way to enforce W7 using Arial V7.

EK-CEL commented 4 years ago

Probably there is now reason to fight the problem. In two years there will be no W7 machines in the business where the Ladybug and Spider live.

@theo-armour @michaldengusiak Above there are my propositions to replace some icons which would be more understandable. If you think the changes are not reasonable please close the issue.

theo-armour commented 4 years ago

@EK-CEL

It would be very easy for someone who knows a bit of JavaScript and a bit of GitHub to fork (copy) the program and change the icons (and many other aspects) to fit the needs of a specific set of users such as yourself.

Every line of code in the software I write is dedicated to the idea that students and professionals who know a lot about engineering and a little bit about programming should be able to modify and tailor the code for new - or old - uses.

The sad thing is that I have so much fun writing the software that I do not spend enough time sharing the wisdom embedded in what I do.

I am a software designer. My job is to build for Windows 11 and what happens in the future. Once something is finished - punch card, modems, W7 and whatever - my best achievement is to entirely forget that the thing ever existed. If I do not forget, then I am designing for the future by looking in the rearview mirror.

W7 came out in 2009. Why is your organization is using ten year old tools to design the buildings of the future?

bitmoji

BTW, the beers at the pub this evening were delicious

EK-CEL commented 4 years ago

Starting the issue I didn't mind that the problem is in Windows version. The W7 support is officially stopped, so the Spider can "officially" refuse to do any update for it. ;-)