Ali Lloyd wrote:
> The code hit-detects as if the handles were square, so the
> hit-detection area is actually bigger than it used to be.
And there's the difference between engineering and user experience:
It may be bigger, but if it's visually ambiguous user's won't be able to
know that.
A rectangle is an unambiguous representation of the hit rect, which may
be why so many other tools (and even LC for most of its life) uses them.
But there's more:
If we examine the interaction even more closely, there's a related
issue, perhaps with the hitPoint of the cursor. I can move the arrow
pointer inside the visible handle circle, but it doesn't change to the
direction arrow (nice touch) until I'm within just a pixel or two of the
centerpoint.
If the hit rect is indeed bigger, it not only feels smaller by virtue of
being virtualized in non-rendered corners around the circular handle
shape, but appears to the eye and hand to be visibly smaller when
attempting to click on the handle, since I now need to get much closer
to the center than I recall having to do before.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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