Color to us is thread brands and how to match a design done with one
brand to other brands ... so our picker is a choice of threads with as
close as possible matching to the original
Fonts have to be digitized so they can be sewn ergo or font panel only
includes our collection of digitized fonts.
I just wanted to get at these in a more standard UI manner.
On Jul 28, 2009, at 7:56 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
On 29/07/2009, at 8:51 AM, David Blanton wrote:
My application deals with embroidery.
To be Mac I want to use the tool bar with the fonts and colors tools.
Because fonts and colors mean something different in this
environment is it de rigueur to override these with my specific
panels?
I don't want the UI Fuzz after me!
For colours, it's possible to add a custom picker (see
NSColorPicker) to the standard colour panel. I would expect that
would be a better approach than replacing the color panel
altogether, and then you get the best of both worlds - the standard
interface but tailored to your app. The user may be comfortable with
the standard picker, and besides, I can't see how "colour" can
really have a different meaning in your app than all the others.
Colour is colour.
For fonts, harder to say. Bear in mind though that your app has to
co-exist with others and the user will have already learned to use
the standard panels with other apps. You could be making your app
harder to use/learn by not using the standard panels.
There is no UI Fuzz, only success or failure in the marketplace.
--Graham
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