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improve naming of context menu entries when selecting shapes for export #2

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
when selecting (a) shape(s) in the drawing aerea, the context menue
(right-klick) lists the options:
- invert selection (Auswahl invertieren)
- disable selection (Auswahl ausblenden)
- enable selection (Auswahl einblenden)

what is wrong with it:
disable + enable selection have nothing to do with selection on-screen,
they disable/enable shapes for export; whileas 'invert selection' actually
affects the shape selection set on the drawing area - it took me a while to
understand what is actually happening 

how should it be changed?
rename the menu entries:
- invert selection (Auswahl invertieren) is ok because there is on-screen
feedback
- rename 'disable selection to 'remove selection from export' (Auswahl
exportieren)
- rename 'enable selection' to 'add selection to export' (Auswahl nicht
exportieren)

improve optical feedback:
- in the entitiy tree panel, there should be some visual indication wether
a shape is selected on-screen, and if it is currently exported

- selecting a shape in the entity tree highlights the corresponding shape
in the drawing are but not vice verse - it should work both ways

Original issue reported on code.google.com by haberl...@gmail.com on 3 Dec 2009 at 9:45

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
the optical feedback is one thing im working on. But in general we should first 
discussion on which UI to use. 

Im currently working in 2 branches. 

1.) WX2.8 GUI Toolkit and
2.) TKinter GUI Toolkit

both GUI's have some advantages and disadvantage. WX looks nice and has better 
Widgets but Tkinter has the better Canvas widget which offers better 
performance. 
I'm not sure what to do on it. 

Any suggestions?

Original comment by christian.kohloeffel on 5 Dec 2009 at 1:27

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
About optical feedback:
Is it easy to add different colors as feedback e.g. grey for "export disabled" ?
I would also suggest to use different colors for cw/ccw recognition. When you 
have a
large number of contours, its hard to see which direction each one goes with the
little arrows.

Original comment by gerd.gle...@gmail.com on 5 Dec 2009 at 5:00

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This could be a good improvement for the next issue. Maybe it's not needed to 
define 
the whole color of the shape different but if would be useful for the direction 
arrows.

Original comment by christian.kohloeffel on 19 Dec 2009 at 6:51

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
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Original comment by christian.kohloeffel on 24 Jul 2013 at 6:25