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Using color to identify a route and link the side pane to the star-view pane. #302

Closed BoatrightTBC closed 3 years ago

BoatrightTBC commented 3 years ago

In the post about the changes done for 0.6.8 in manual routing, Larry posted an image of the improved side-pane display of a route.

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In order to clarify which routes on screen correspond to which routes in the side pane, draw a line of that routes color over the route name like this:

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Because the side-pane is a piece of text to display, you can't just DRAW a bar there, but you can do a line of spaces or non-breaking spaces, or even hyphens with the foreground and background colors both set to the color assigned to that route.

ljramones commented 3 years ago

I use a ListView, which is just a set of strings. http://tutorials.jenkov.com/javafx/listview.html

I'll have to use another component to display in order to do this.

ljramones commented 3 years ago

I couldn't do that but I did this instead.

What it additionally gives you is a local control to immediately see and change the color. You can also hide or show any given route

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cegannon1 commented 3 years ago

The route colors definitely work as legs on the plot, but I’d stick with black on light grey in the distance indicators. As they are, you can’t read the type in the light colors needed to show up on the black of the space backdrop (the legs). And the big white bubble actually reduces the visibility/readability of the rest of the display.

Great work, though!

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I couldn't do that but I did this instead.

What it additionally gives you is a local control to immediately see and change the color. You can also hide or show any given route

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ljramones commented 3 years ago

the color picker allows you to set any color you want. I short-circuited the color change so you can try a variety of colors very quickly.

cegannon1 commented 3 years ago

Great. I am recommending black on light gray as the default. Let’s try a test with the numbers in bold face.

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